Lyin' Ryan (with an update on Romney/Obama II)

Here's the expose of Paul Ryan's many fabrications. You have just enough time to watch it before you watch Mitt Romney take over as the Lyin' King. I'll repost this video at some later point.

Update: "Binders full of women" -- is that another term for a corset?

Update 2: In tonight's debate, Mitt stumbled badly on the question of whether Obama had labeled the Libyan embassy attack an act of terror. Apparently, Team Romney has spent too much time trapped in the internal prison of the right-wing blogosphere. On this issue, right-wing bloggers became so enmeshed in their frenzy of conspiracism that they never bothered to look up the facts.

While making the video embedded above, I had to find out just when Obama first described the attack as terrorism. On such occasions, Google (for all its faults) is our friend. Within two minutes of searching, I had read a transcript of Obama's briefing in the Rose Garden the next day. Within ten minutes, I had downloaded a Voice of America video containing the relevant footage.

The right's behavior has been confounding. Why on earth did they fasten on the embassy attack as grounds for one of their ginned-up pseudoscandals? I followed those events closely as they unwound. I knew that the administration had -- from the beginning -- warned that the Benghazi event (unlike the spontaneous protest in Cairo) might well have been planned long before that video became known.

On September 12, many news reports quoted administration officials who said that the Libyan incident appeared to be planned well beforehand. Memeorandum (a site which most conservative bloggers watch closely) linked to those articles. Did every right-wing blogger somehow miss all of that reportage?

And didn't it occur to Romney and Ryan to double-check? Again: All they needed was a computer, an internet hookup, and two minutes. Instead, they let the Breitbart brigade do their thinking for them.

Modern partisan politics is disturbingly insular. The right-wing blogsosphere is a house of mirrors, and the people living within that house see only endless reflections of themselves. And they're fine with that. They want no other view. Left-wing bloggers inhabit a similar house -- but at least their domicile has a few windows.