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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Sep 15, 2021, 07:37 AM Sep 2021

Opinion: This is how a Republican lie is born

Opinion: This is how a [div class="excerpt"Republican lie is born]

Opinion by Dana Milbank
Columnist
Yesterday at 7:09 p.m. EDT

This is what happens when an entire political party takes leave of reality.

On Tuesday morning, one of the most senior and important Republican senators used one of the most prominent settings in official Washington to level one of the most serious allegations possible against the commander in chief. And his charge was based on an utter fabrication.

Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, used a hearing intended for sworn testimony from the secretary of state on the Afghanistan withdrawal to allege that President Biden is mentally incompetent.

Risch first devoted his opening statement to continuing the long-running Republican narrative. “We know for a fact the president of the United States is somewhat disadvantaged here in that someone is calling the shots. He can’t even speak without someone in the White House censoring it or signing off on it,” the senator claimed. “As recently as yesterday, in mid-sentence, he was cut off by someone in the White House who makes the decision that the president of the United States is not speaking correctly. … This is a puppeteer act.”

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Opinion by Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank is an opinion columnist for The Washington Post. He sketches the foolish, the fallacious and the felonious in politics. Twitter https://twitter.com/Milbank
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Opinion: This is how a Republican lie is born (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 OP
Hook. Line. Sinker! czarjak Sep 2021 #1
Sen. Jim Risch... 2naSalit Sep 2021 #2
This particular lie was "born" a long time ago. It is a staple of Right Wing media. Midnight Writer Sep 2021 #3
BORING! lark Sep 2021 #4

lark

(23,003 posts)
4. BORING!
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 11:06 AM
Sep 2021

Repugs are so stupidly boring, they have been trying this for 2 years and no one buys it. They think that continuously saying a lie will make it so - nope - people have eyes and ears and see reality, for the most part.

Another repug lie - Harris is actually in charge and Biden is a puppet. What horrible less than people these murderous asses are.

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