Mitt Romney Wins All-Important BS Contest

I didn't watch the debate - I just couldn't. I read it in transcript form afterwards. I know it is widely believed that Mitt Romney won, but I don't agree. I think both candidates lost. I think they both sucked. Romney told a series of outright lies - the bit about the pre-existing conditions was incredible - while Barack Obama seemed unaccountably disinterested in the intellectual challenge of the exercise, repeatedly leaving the gross absurdities hurled ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.6
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 6, 2012

Taibbi here deftly cuts through the BS in the corporate mainstream media about the debate, and goes directly to describe one big plop of BS that was in the debate. Taibbi takes no prisoners.

Obama, meanwhile, came off as “wonky and lacking punch,” because he was “so intent on answering questions.” The piece literally had nothing to say about the substance or accuracy of the two arguments.

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