Really??!! He frickin' lied about his marathon run time!!!

[LynneSin]

You know I am impressed by anyone who can even run a marathon regardless of what time they run it in.

I have been out of state for 3 days in a rural dead zone with no Internet or cell. So I'm here eating a sandwich at panera in Strousburg PA and first chance to catch up on the world.

And now I read that Ryan is such a douchebag of a liar that he shaved an hour off his marathon run time.

I mean to run the marathon in 4 hours is pretty damn impressive. So why does this idiot thinks he has to lie and claim 3 hours, which is a very competitive time.

Paul Ryan is a lying asshole. I don't trust anything he says

[livetohike]

1. Seems he is a pathological liar. He lies about everything, he believes his lies

and he can't help himself.

[Coyotl]

21. Not to mention, it was such a whopper it was an obvious lie

Must have a rather high opinion of himself, or is self-deluded and actually thinks he told the truth.



Either way, Mitt is wishing he had picked Palin at this point.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Could be, he told the truth about his time but.....

forgot he was running a half marathon. Grandma's Marathon, the race he says he ran, also has a half marathon

[Bjorn Against]

12. Grandma's has more than one race, there is a half and a full marathon

It looks like Ryan did run the full Grandma's marathon but his time was not as good as he claims. His real time was above average so he did fairly well and he could have been honest and no one would have frowned on his time but instead he decided to lie and this lie will follow him.

[Brother Buzz]

17. Guess I need to learn to use that 'sarcasm' thing a bit more

[lunatica]

3. That story is what convinced me that he's just a grifter

For real, he's nothing more than a con man who never stops conning people, even when he has nothing to gain.

[Scuba]

4. Compulsive liar. Once got a hole-in-one and wrote down "zero".

[11 Bravo]

9. BWAHAHAHA! May I please steal that?

(Full disclosure: I probably will anyway, but it seemed like asking first was the right thing to do!)

[Scuba]

15. Ancient joke, be my guest.

[11 Bravo]

23. Hell, I'm an ancient guy, but I never heard that one! Thanks!

[William Seger]

16. LMAO! Yup, gotta steal that one. (n/m)

[Blanks]

5. He had no choice but to lie.

According to this post; Sara Palin ran a faster marathon.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1249823

Real stud that Ryan.

[avebury]

6. K&R nt

[The Magistrate]

7. Lyin' Ryan, Ma'am

Fella can't help himself, he will lie when the truth would serve just as well....

"Romney loves America like a tick love a dog."

[Warren Stupidity]

27. please consider an edit.

misogynist insults are out of bounds here.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Compulsive liars not only lie frequently but make big lies not little fibs. Hour off is big lie. nt

[Horse with no Name]

11. If you lie about the little things

you will lie about the big things.

[NYC_SKP]

13. I'm an astronaut.

Wow, that was easy.

K/R

[LynneSin]

36. Wow, how ironic - I'm a Rocket Scientist

Bet that was one of my rockets that flew you to the moon!

[NYC_SKP]

41. ba doomp boomp

ETA: Jupiter and Mars....


and THAT'S IT!!!! not Saturn or any of those "outer planets" if you know what I mean and I KNOW YOU DO DON"T GO THERE!!!!

[Bjorn Against]

14. Watch, this will be the lie that dogs him the most

It is not the biggest or most important lie he has told but it is a lie that everyone can understand and there is no way to spin it from a political perspective. Enough people believe lies about policy that politicians are able to get away with them, lies about non-political topics often hurt politicians far more because there is no ideological way to spin a lie like this. I certainly on't think this is even close to the worst of his lies, but it will likely damage him more than the really big lies.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. That bubble seems to have created a belief that no lie will be found out.

[Pat Riot]

19. He claimed sub 3.

He ran Grandma's in 4:01; claimed it was 2;50-something.

Believe me, any marathoner knows his best time, usually to the second.

[mike dub]

26. you nailed it, Pat Riot

[Unca Wiggilie]

20. A "Pheidippides" he is not!

But Lyin' Paul Ryan would have demolished the entire field in any Liar's Contest!

[beac]

35. Maybe he's in a secret GOP Lying Marathon?

If so, he's definitely a favorite to win!!



And WELCOME to DU!

[Unca Wiggilie]

48. The GOP Lying Marathon results:

Lyin' Ryan and Whopper Willard in Dead Heat!

[Javaman]

22. low self esteem and the need to lie to boost his ego.

in other words and asshole boaster.

A 4 hour marathon is a good time. but claiming he did a sub 3 hour marathon, when he clearly did not, is the highest form of assholery among runners.

[smirkymonkey]

44. K&R!

Thanks for that. He's such a liar. Nobody like that should ever be allowed to run for public office.

[Berlum]

24. Typical Republican Family Values

Lying is just fine as long as you are a Republican.

No wonder Americans have no respect for Republicans.

[mike dub]

25. what a liar

I once ran a 3:01:43 at the Disney Marathon, which was very difficult and painful.
A 4 hour marathon is exponentially slower than a 3 hour run. My 3:10's and 3:20's were distinctively less painful than a 3:01. Not even close.

Yet completing a marathon Period is a great accomplishment. Ryan is such a tool for feeling he has to Lie about his finish time.

[LynneSin]

37. I have nothing but admiration for anyone who can finish a marathon

Geez it takes me an hour to walk the 3 miles I walk three times a week here in my neighborhood. Who would I be to judge someone that could only finish a marathon in 4 minutes.

[Honeycombe8]

28. The world has found Ryan's weak spot: He's a pathological liar, even about things that

don't matter.

And yet, his moderate constituents in Wisconsin keep voting for him! Why????

[BeyondGeography]

29. He has hook-ups with the truth every now and then

But nothing gets in the way Lyin' Ryan's cheap thrills.

[malaise]

30. He actually claimed two and fifty something

He's a marathon LIAR.

[LynneSin]

38. 2:50 would put him between the guy from East-Timor and Lesotho at the Olympics

http://www.london2012.com/athletics/event=athletics-men-marathon/

just saying!

[malaise]

40. That's how badly he lies

just saying

[Rosa Luxemburg]

31. Lyin' Ryan - see it rhymes!

[catchnrelease]

32. So much for following the rules

I thought he was supposed to be such a good Catholic--Thou shall not bear false witness--yet it seems like everything out of his mouth is a lie. I guess he figures he can just go to confession and be absolved of everything. What a slimeball.

[SunSeeker]

33. Can't wait for the SNL skit about this!

[YellaDog1950]

34. I would love to hear him say that he invented the Whopper.

Now, that's something I might believe.

[lumberjack_jeff]

39. My wife, uh... Morgan Fairchild, Yeah, that's the ticket! Agrees with you.

[Aerows]

46. My wife is... uh, Sasha Alexander

and my mistress is Gisele Bundchen. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. Surely Paul Ryan is among the top ten of runners in the world, amongst his other amazing ::cough cough:: accomplishments.

Oh, and I wrote a number of top 40 hits under a pen name because I couldn't bear to take credit for being so successful and creative.

[Doctor_J]

42. Pathalogical - he's a sociopath

sort of like Smirk. He will lie about absolutely everything.

[central scrutinizer]

43. original interview transcript here:

http://www.hughhewitt.com/blog/g/3229320e-2c55-4122-93f1-2ebe4fbc8663

Check out this exchange. I know parsing is often nitpicking but notice that the host asks about marathons (plural) and Ryan answers yes and then says his best was under three. This implies that he has completed several marathons. However, he only completed one and the time was 4:01:25. An honest man would have corrected the host and said that I have only completed one, not leave the mistaken impression that he has done several. If you had only completed one marathon, you would certainly know the exact time and even if you were a little off, in no way could over 4 minutes be rounded down to under 3 minutes. Pure self-aggrandizement and braggadocio.

HH: Are you still running?

PR: Yeah, I hurt a disc in my back, so I don’t run marathons anymore. I just run ten miles or yes.

HH: But you did run marathons at some point?

PR: Yeah, but I can’t do it anymore, because my back is just not that great.

HH: I’ve just gotta ask, what’s your personal best?

PR: Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.

HH: Holy smokes. All right, now you go down to Miami University…

PR: I was fast when I was younger, yeah.

[Aerows]

45. 3 hours is a competitive time!?!?

He'd have to be running - sustained - at less than 7 minute miles. That's a tall order for professional athletes. Best time for the Boston Marathon in 2012 was 2:02. That's with someone that is a world class runner. 2:18 was the previous world record.

Paul Ryan is full of shit. He's claiming times that were top ten winners in many marathons. Again, conclusion: Full of shit.

[CoffeeCat]

47. I've spoken with marathon runners...

...and every single one said that there is no way in hell a marathon runner would "misstate" his time by an hour.

Four hours is a great time. However, three hours is a crown jewel that will qualify you for the Boston Marathon. There is a huge, vast difference between three and four hours.

Paul Ryan knows that.

This just adds to the fright that is Paul Ryan. I knew a guy in college who lied about his accomplishments and exaggerated his successes. He was incredibly messed up and he was also a malignant narcissist frat boy.