Bill Clinton Gives Republicans the Thing They Hate Most: A Dose Of Reality

Posted on Thursday, September 6, 2012 by Cindy Rose

It is soooooo obvious how Bill Clinton’s speech last night got under Republicans’ skin; so much so, they resorted to tweeting Monica jokes to make themselves feel better; so classy those Republicans.

Neil Cavuto and Mark Levin got together to whine about how “no one spot checks” Bill Clinton, Cavuto claiming:

“If you look at the media – not only are they mouthpieces for big government, and mouthpieces for the welfare state – but many prominent members of the media are former Democrat staffers or former White House staffers, and this is a problem.”

This is pretty funny considering Cavuto himself was a White House intern during the Carter Administration. From the sanity challenged over at Renew America we get the headline: “The DNC’s Orgy of lies and Hypocrisy”, which contains this gem:

“The hypocrisy fills the convention hall like the musk of a dead, decaying animal corpse.”

Where DO they find these loons? Right Sphere claimed:

“…almost the whole speech was based completely on distortions or one-sided portrayals.”

Right Wing News called Clinton “the slickest liar Progressives have”, but instead of doing any real fact-checking, proceeded to critique Clinton’s address with Republican talking points (spelled l-i-e-s).

But the most uninformed, ignorant, “I don’t do any thinking on my own and I’m proud of it” line was this:

“I can’t wait until Ryan tears into Clinton and takes that speech apart and sends that proven liar back into retirement.”

Yeah, that I’ve gotta see. Read it and weep GOP: Fact Check, and the Washington Post among numerous others reported it was a solid speech.

If Republicans fact-checked their own candidates with half the effort they spent trying to refute Bill Clinton’s speech, they’d still be looking for a Presidential nominee.

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  • Lucas K

    “If Republicans fact-checked their own candidates with half the effort they spent trying to refute Bill Clinton’s speech, they’d still be looking for a Presidential nominee.” Zing!

  • http://allthingsdemocrat.com/ Doug Marquardt

    That’s the major difference these days between the left and the right, especially in the blogosphere. The right uses blanket statements or insults claiming the left lies without actually refuting any of the so-called “lies”. The left always, always provides links to reputable sources, as we do in this blog. The right provides no reputable sources, instead linking to other wingnut blogs that repeat the fiction of their hatefilled idols like Limbaugh, who lets fictional vomit dribble down his large front-porch. The right-wing trolls that have infected many of the popular left-wing blogs’ comments have gotten to the point where they make any ridiculous charge without sources and then try to get other commenters to waste their time researching the bogus charges (with silly phrases like “its all over Youtube, if you’re too lazy to look it up …”).

    I believe its clear that most of these wingnuts have picked the Republican Party the same way some pick a sports team to back, and then they back it religiously. Sad thing is that they actually believe the crap that’s been spoon-fed to them. Romney’s and Ryan’s latest attempt to revive the old trickle-down theory, that if you give millionaires all the tax breaks they may invest in a company that provides a job for you, is especially foolish given the fact that so many of the companies that one can invest in these days will use that money to create jobs in China, not here. But the wingnuts will stick to their team, right to the end. And if Romney and Ryan take over, and when the wingnuts lose their jobs, or health care, or retirement, they’ll take the wingnut theory to the next step and say, “My company was forced to lay me off; my wages were too damned high, and that’s the fault of the unions.”

    • clrose

       You are so right. What is most obvious when reading around the right wing blogosphere, and twitter threads, is how the approach to discussing the really important issues resembles a grade school clique, with name-calling and catty remarks that they’re more than happy to substitute for those annoying little fact-type things. It’s a sad  statement that SO many Republican voters just regurgitate what people like Fehrnstrom, Malkin, and the like say, as if it’s gospel; but the GOP has always had the advantage of a voting base that is easily manipulated.