Lies Lies And More Lies
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 13th, 2012
And Congratulations for the biggest lie of them all goes to….
Good morning!
Carly: It seems we’re reading the same writes. And you may be right about Michigan’s Governor signing into law the big lie his” Right to Work” - this is indeed very upsetting. All I can say is the repubs are still sore about losing the election and will continue to fight the president in his agenda to help all the American people and do everything they possibly can to make him fail, all at the expense of the American people. I HOPE that come the 2014 elections, people will remember the repubs in the House that did this (and no doubt whatever else the House legislates against the wellness of the American people until then) and vote them out of office. The House is bringing us down and that needs to change.
So yes, I agree with you, and today I still want to highlight the LSOS Romney.
So…here’s the write:
PolitiFact Lie Of The Year: Mitt Romney’s Jeeps In China Ad
PolitiFact has named Mitt Romney’s claim that Jeep is moving its U.S. production to China as its “Lie Of The Year.”
Romney made the false claim in a speech on the campaign trail and a television ad, despite Chrysler’s assertion that it is maintaining its American operations and considering expanding production to China. His campaign sparked controversy when it aired the commercial in Ohio.
On Wednesday, PolitiFact declared the ad ”brazenly false.” The fact-checking organization outlined the origins of the claim and the backlash that ensued. “People often say that politicians don’t pay a price for deception, but this time was different,” it wrote. “A flood of negative press coverage rained down on the Romney campaign, and he failed to turn the tide in Ohio, the most important state in the presidential election.”
PolitiFact, of course, attracted its own share of controversy during the 2012 election — particularly for its review of politicians’ statements in its “Truth-O-Meter.” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, for example, became one of the organization’s most outspoken critics when she raged against the organization for its assessment of a claim by Marco Rubio as well as President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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Ruth, SM: I couldn’t have said it better. I was struggling with the words on how to get rid of this guy knowing his job is for life, and death our only relief, without blatantly wishing death upon him. So your request of putting the situation into “God’s hands” pretty much took care of it for me. Let’s HOPE He’s listening. Okay…well…I guess it can’t be avoided - there’s my blatant wish of death. Let’s just call it a sacrifice for the good of the American people. Because really….we will be, as you say, “doomed as a nation”, if Scalia is still around.
Steven: :) Feels pretty good doesn’t it?
Peace out.
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December 13th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
Michelle, what I like most about you and your blog is your strength of character. Love you you said to Ruth,SM about the asshole Scalia. Let me add the sooner the better.
Beth
December 13th, 2012 at 12:26 pm
What Your Oncologist Isn’t Telling You
If you have cancer or have had it in the past, then you’ve already discussed treatments with your oncologist.
So answer me this:
Has your oncologist ever brought up the topic of exercise during any of your conversations and been very specific about it—as in, what types of physical activities you should be doing and how often you should be doing them?
Odds are, he or she hasn’t, according to a new study.
This is alarming, since past research has shown that exercise is associated with improvements in a wide range of cancer-related issues, such as reducing fatigue and enhancing physical quality of life, according to a meta-analysis done by researchers at Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, North Carolina.
Exercise may also help prevent cancer recurrence and cancer-related death.
One study done by researchers at Harvard Medical School, for example, found that the risks of breast cancer recurrence, breast cancer death and death (from any cause) were 26% to 40% lower in women who exercised most, compared with those who exercised least.
Why are oncologists talking more about pills than Pilates?
And what, specifically, about exercise should cancer patients—and cancer survivors—know?
I spoke with an expert to find out…
CANCER PATIENTS ARE IN THE DARK
In the new study, researchers interviewed 20 lung cancer patients, and not one participant reported receiving specific instructions from his or her oncologist about exercise—other than a vague suggestion to “stay active.”
This is not to say that oncologists don’t care about your well-being, emphasized lead study author Andrea L. Cheville, MD. They are simply more apt to zero in on their area of expertise—attacking your cancer and killing it with drugs, radiation, surgery, etc.—as opposed to talking about easing symptoms and preventing recurrence, she said.
IT PAYS TO GET MOVING
“We still don’t know exactly why exercise helps reduce symptoms and cancer recurrence—it may be that it stimulates metabolism, modulates hormones, boosts immunity and/or reduces oxidative damage to cells (or some combination of these factors), but we do know that it helps,” Dr. Cheville told me.
It’s important for all people to exercise, of course, not only cancer patients. But it’s particularly important for cancer patients and cancer survivors to be physically active because having cancer challenges a person’s fitness in a variety of ways.
Past research has shown that chemotherapy, for example, is associated with a loss of lean muscle, and it can make patients feel more achy and fatigued than usual. These problems tend to make exercise less appealing, though physical activity actually is what helps solve those problems by building muscle and relieving achiness and fatigue.
Cancer patients and survivors are already at a physical disadvantage, and if they exercise progressively less, they will lose even more strength and stamina and be less able to fight off recurrence of the disease.
EXERCISE THAT SUITS YOUR NEEDS
If your oncologist isn’t bringing up exercise, Dr. Cheville suggests you should broach the topic yourself. Then, if the doctor doesn’t have specific advice about it, ask for a referral to a physical therapist or personal trainer who does have specific experience in working with cancer patients and/or survivors.
Come to think of it, I’d go see such professionals even if my oncologist did know a bit about exercise—they are the real specialists in it.
Anyone with cancer can exercise, Dr. Cheville assured me, but the trick is making sure that you go about it safely and effectively. There is no one-size-fits-all workout plan to follow. For example, a woman receiving radiation for breast cancer may be extra tired, so aggressive exercise would not make sense in this context. Instead, she would benefit from gentle, progressive stretching.
On the other end of the spectrum, a man who has been in remission from prostate cancer for five years is much better able to handle intense endurance and strength-training exercises, such as weight lifting or jogging. Most patients fall somewhere in between those two examples, so it’s usually best to start small—often with light stretches or walking—and then progress gradually into more forceful moves, gauging comfort along the way.
And the program should be molded around any targeted problems from the cancer or the therapy, such as not using a sore body part that’s healing from an incision or avoiding movements that cause dizziness if a patient is easily nauseated. That’s why it’s important to ask your physical therapist or trainer for a carefully individualized program.
Also call your local YMCA or click here, since the Livestrong nonprofit has partnered with YMCAs in 25 states across the country to provide specialized exercise programs for cancer survivors.
Source: Andrea L. Cheville, MD, associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. The results of her study were published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Man, Karl Rove should have won for lying to all those people who gave to his PAC.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Upding for favoring the “you didn’t build that” mendacity for the top spot.
That one really irritated me, because it was such a blatant inversion of the truth. Obama was actually expressing a very positive idea about the American system of government, and it was perverted into a paranoid attack that made no logical sense.
A portrait of the Republican Party in 2012.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Charles, I was a little surprised that the distortion wasn’t reported on more frequently.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Hooray for facts.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Maybe the Lie of the Year should have been the lies that Romney’s campaign team, the RNC, and conservative pundits told themselves about Nate Silver’s numbers.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Romney will win in a landslide!
-Dick Morris
That’s not a lie. He said it. He believed it. He got others to believe it.
It just didn’t come true, because our Girlz, Michelle and Madaline were on it! And that’s priceless.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
The “You didn’t build that” was a lie of omission, created by snipping a few words out of context. The “Chinese Jeeps” was more of a traditional whopper. They just made that shit up.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
To me the worst part was they stood by the claim, even as the media and the public expressed collective outrage against something so obviously false.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
The “Obama Apology Tour” lie was another one that bubbled up from the right wing basement to Romney’s campaign, and it was just as dishonest.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
My other favorite Romney lie was how the auto bailouts were designed after his original plan. Except that his plan was liquidation.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
As someone said on Balloon Juice, Politifact chose this one because it was easy: There was no “he said/she said” because the car company itself had someone call it a lie. “You didn’t build that” would have required Politifact to actually do work to report it as a lie.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
The great masses of the people will more easily fall prey to a big lie than a small one. – Herman Göering
Nice to see that wasn’t the case this time around.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
I thought it was funny how Republicans ran with “You Didn’t Build That” all the way to the convention- because that’s what Americans crave, a neurotic lie that only makes sense to political insiders.
The faux controversy over Benghazi was something that really came back to bite Romney at the debate.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Charles, Hey, give Politifact a break! They lean over backwards to avoid being accused of bias.
They lean WAYYY over backward. Sometimes they fall over, in fact.
I was a little surprised Politifact didn’t come up with two lies of the year, one for each side.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Off topic fun:
I am grading term papers right now for a Gender & Power in the US history class.
This offering of fail is for your enjoyment. I give it to you without change or comment, except to note that the paper is supposed to be about differences between white and African American masculinity:
Next, I think everyone should have an idol its important that you look up to someone whether it has a positive or negative affect your life, hopefully its positive though. While doing my research I found it difficult to find a certain role model of mine that was a white male. My mom and dad are two of the top five people that I have looked up to my entire life but, three of my my main idols that I have grown fond of while growing up are technically not of the Caucasion skin. My three idols are Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Derek Jeter and Michael Jordan. Dwayne Johnson is from Samoan decent, Derek Jeter has a black father and a white mother, and Michael Jordan is an African American. Although they don’t personify white masculinity because they are from a different background, they are great role models for any race because of how they act and their accomplishments within their field of work.
The Rock, considered to be the greatest wrestler of all time has won an astounding 9 world titles within WWE/WWF amd he demonstrates masculinity through his trademark catchphrase, “Just Bring It!” his ripped & jacked physique and his toughness to never back down from a fight.
Bring the fucking meteor now.
This was actually turned in as academic work.
I’m White, he’s white and he attempts to bullshit me with this tripe. I guess he can wrestle with the F, I’m going to give him on this paper.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Bela, as someone said on Balloon Juice, Politifact chose this one because it was easy: There was no “he said/she said” because the car company itself had someone call it a lie. “You didn’t build that” would have required Politifact to actually do work to report it as a lie.
More cynically, “you didn’t build that” could be twisted into something in the same star cluster as the truth, so Politifact gave it a “false” as opposed to the richly deserved pants-on-fire.
I still think the winner should have been the very first general election ad the Romney campaign ran — the “we can’t talk about the economy” line being attributed to Obama when it was actually Obama quoting McCain. Talk about starting out as you plan to continue — all lies from beginning to end.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
CD, how old is this person? Please don’t say they’re older than ten.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
CD, Oh dear. Functionally illiterate and zero apparent content. Please tell me this is not in a college class.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
I am the TA, thank God. These are second and third year college students…
Make of that what you will.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:09 pm
CD, we’re doomed.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Perhaps the world really will end in 2012, and spare us all. These students are old enough to vote…
December 13th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
I think that’s an example of a student who would have been better off if he was encouraged to go to a trade school.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
And he still thinks those Fake wrestling events are real?
December 13th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Ah! Budding young corporate lawyers!
December 13th, 2012 at 1:14 pm
I return now to my cloister/Scriptorium to resume grading. Fortunately, I will not require additional penitent correction from my chapter master, since this is deemed punishment enough…
December 13th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
CD; Really? I am speechless.
Seriously, I don’t know what to say.
It’s a strange and unpleasant feeling.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:16 pm
The Rock’s “jacked physique” is a perfectly cromulent topic for a term paper!
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Ok, never mind.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
For another change of topic(I love this blog), I would like to say.
Mick Jagger should write a diet cookbook.
Seriously — how the hell does he stay so thin?
December 13th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
#30 Crowder
Mick Jagger should write a diet cookbook.
Seriously — how the hell does he stay so thin?
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Rhymes with “drugs”.
December 13th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Hafa Adai, I guess all that chatter about the Osprey and Guam couldn’t help but make us UFO enthusiasts excited to get our first glimpse of a real live Osprey.
Well the wait is over.
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20121214/NEWS01/212140305
December 13th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
I guess you have heard by now that your god Obama has clay feet. He allowed Rice to fall on her sword for his gutless ass.
We will eat that ball less wonder alive.
HaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
John
December 14th, 2012 at 3:21 am
Lost all respect for the executive branch over this.
Should have gone to war over her reputation. She would have been a great Sec of State. Old angry white guys don’t like her? Why are we even worrying about it?
Why stand up for Obama? Under the bus you go!
December 14th, 2012 at 3:22 am
I love Obama, but he throws people under busses. He just does.