There’s a reason the Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/i> is referred to lovingly as the “Times-Disgrace.” And it’s on full display here.<\/p>\n
As reported by Think Progress<\/i><\/a>, after parroting Romney’s talking points on welfare, the Times-Disgrace<\/i> is cited in Romney’s latest ad on welfare, only now the Times-Disgrace<\/i> doesn’t stand behind their earlier parroting of Romney’s talking points — that President Obama’s waivers have gutted the work requirement rules for welfare eligibility — because his welfare attacks have been “debunked by multiple independent fact-checkers.”<\/p>\n Does Romney care that the source he cites has backtracked? Of course not. He has what he needed — a credible source making a credible-sounding statement so that his factually-challenged, post-truth campaign can go about its business of making stuff up.<\/p>\n Thank you, Richmond Times-Disgrace<\/i>, for enabling the mendacity of Mitt Romney!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a reason the Richmond Times-Dispatch is referred to lovingly as the “Times-Disgrace.” And it’s on full display here. As reported by Think Progress, after parroting Romney’s talking points on welfare, the Times-Disgrace is cited in Romney’s latest ad on welfare, only now the Times-Disgrace doesn’t stand behind their earlier parroting of Romney’s talking pointsContinue reading “On the Enablement of Mitt Romney’s Mendacity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[137,222],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-mitt-romney","tag-richmond","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}