{"id":24399,"date":"2011-12-09T18:33:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T01:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/this-is-what-we-call-the-big-lie.html"},"modified":"2011-12-10T00:05:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T07:05:42","slug":"this-is-what-we-call-the-big-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/this-is-what-we-call-the-big-lie.html","title":{"rendered":"This is what we call &quot;the Big Lie&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you say you&#39;re not doing something often and loudly and straight-facedly enough, maybe some folks will actually come to believe you.  Because, of course, it must be true because people wouldn&#39;t often and loudly and straight-facedly <i>lie<\/i>, would they? #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.pfaw.org\/content\/gop-disinformation-campaign-filibustering-judges'>GOP Disinformation Campaign on Filibustering Judges | People For the American Way Blog<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGOP Disinformation Campaign on Filibustering Judges. By Paul | December 8, 2011 &#8211; 6:06pm. Apparently recognizing the severe and possibly permanent damage they did to the judicial nominations process \u2013&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you say you&#39;re not doing something often and loudly and straight-facedly enough, maybe some folks will actually come to believe you. Because, of course, it must be true because people wouldn&#39;t often and loudly and straight-facedly lie, would they? #ddtb Embedded Link GOP Disinformation Campaign on Filibustering Judges | People For the American Way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/this-is-what-we-call-the-big-lie.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is what we call &quot;the Big Lie&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25841,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/filibustering-what-filibustering.html","url_meta":{"origin":24399,"position":0},"title":"Filibustering? What filibustering?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Jan-12 8:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"McConnell's assertion that Obama \"got everything he wanted from a completely compliant Congress for two of those three years\" would be hysterically laughable were it not such a vicious bald-faced lie. 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