OBAMA AND LIBERALS: WALLING UP THE AMERICA WITH LIES AND POLICYS (Photo credit: SS&SS)
With the Democratic convention underway, fact-checkers have already poured over the first day of coverage,
looking for tidbits of untruth, outright lies and verbal blunders. Not
surprisingly — after all, this is politics and many politicians,
regardless of party, have a penchant for stretching the truth — numerous
deceptive statements were identified.
FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, found a plethora of lies and presented them, in detail, on Wednesday morning. The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker did the same.
Going speaker-by-speaker and point-by-point, both outlets noticed
oddities in discussions and comments about taxation, job growth under
Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts and statistics surrounding
equal pay, to name just a few problematic subjects.
Here are five of the most pervasive lies:
