{"id":29999,"date":"2012-08-28T13:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T19:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/dispensing-with-even-truthiness.html"},"modified":"2012-08-28T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T19:54:27","slug":"dispensing-with-even-truthiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/dispensing-with-even-truthiness.html","title":{"rendered":"Dispensing with even truthiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

"We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers." Well, there you have it.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I suppose that, in a way, this is refreshingly honest: Romney's senior campaign staff seems to be publicly and openly saying that they will, in fact, be lying about Obama and his policies in their campaign ads, and they don't see anything wrong with that.<\/p>\n

I don't really know what to say about that.<\/p>\n

via +<\/span>Tammy McLeod<\/a><\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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"We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers." Well, there you have it. Reshared post from +Yonatan Zunger I suppose that, in a way, this is refreshingly honest: Romney's senior campaign staff seems to be publicly and openly saying that they will, in fact, be lying about Obama and his policies in … Continue reading “Dispensing with even truthiness”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50192,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/heres-hoping-the-saveconstantine-campaign-is-a-successful-one.html","url_meta":{"origin":29999,"position":0},"title":"Here’s hoping the #SaveConstantine campaign is a successful one","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Apr-15 11:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's hoping the #SaveConstantine campaign is a successful one It's a show with a lot of potential. 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