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Dr. Eowyn posted: "Joel B. Pollak of Breitbart.com has compiled the top
ten worst lies told during the Second Debate -- by Obama, a female
questioner, and moderator Candy Crowley: 10. Obama: "I told you I would cut
taxes for middle-class families, and I did. I told you I" Respond to
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Joel B. Pollak of
Breitbart.com<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/17/Top-Ten-Lies-of-the-Second-Presidential-Debate>has
compiled the top ten worst lies told during the Second Debate -- by
Obama, a female questioner, and moderator Candy Crowley:
*10. *Obama: *"I told you I would cut taxes for middle-class families, and
I did. I told you I’d cut taxes for small businesses, and I
have."*President Barack Obama has made this claim repeatedly during
the campaign,
but it is not true, as even the liberal *Huffington Post*
acknowledges<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/obama-small-business-tax-cuts-fact-check_n_1941038.html>.
The few tax cuts that Obama did enact--such as the temporary payroll tax
holiday--were short-term, or conditional. Furthermore, as the Romney
campaign has often pointed out, Obama has raised many taxes on the middle
class, including the infamous Obamacare "penalty," and his taxes on
"millionaires and billionaires" would hit small businesess.
*9. *Obama:* "...[H]e was asked, is it fair for somebody like you, making
$20 million a year, to pay a lower tax rate than a nurse or a bus
driver....And he said, yes, I think that’s fair."* Obama was referring to
Romney's recent *60 Minutes* interview. But the
transcript<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/24/transcript-romney-on-60-minutes/>reveals
Obama was not telling the truth. Romney was not saying it was fair
that higher income should be taxed at a lower rate. He was referring *
specifically* to the principle that capital gains should be taxed lower
than other income because it has been taxed once already--a principle,
incidentally, that Obama agrees with in his own tax policy.
*8.* Obama: "He* called the Arizona law a model for the nation." *Obama
tried to knock Romney's immigration policy while at the same time accusing
him of flip-flopping on the issue. But as Romney pointed out, he was
referring specifically<http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/22/se.05.html>to
the e-Verify part of the law--the requirement of instant verification
of
workers' legal status. That provision is even favored by unions. Obama made
it seem Romney praised the law as a whole--which he had not. He went on to
say that he himself objected to the provision that allowed police to check
suspected illegal immigrants' documentation--but that provision survived a
challenge at the Supreme Court.
*7.* Obama: "I* want to make sure our timekeepers are working here." *For
the third debate in a row, the Democratic candidate complained that he was
not receiving as much time to speak as the Republican. And for the third
debate in a row, the Obama/Biden ticket actually spoke for *longer*--much
longer--than the Romney/Ryan ticket, a testament to the ability of the
incumbents to pressure the moderators, and the susceptibility of the
left-leaning moderators to such pressure. Obama received a full three
minutes more time in last night's debate--and the percentage difference was
even higher at one point in the proceedings.
*6.* Obama: "They* rely on it for mammograms." *Obama attacked Romney's
proposal to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood by claiming that
the organization provides mammograms to women to help prevent breast
cancer. It's been a repeated claim made by the left for months. The problem
is that it's just
untrue<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/17/They%20rely%20on%20it%20for%20mammograms>--and
even left-leaning mainstream media
fact-checkers<http://liveactionnews.org/investigative/fact-check/fact-checkers-confirm-planned-parenthood-does-not-provide-mammograms/>have
acknowledged that. What is perhaps worse than Obama's misleading claim
about mammograms is the unsupported implication that Romney wants to deny
life-saving health care to women--a cheap shot to which Romney was given no
chance to respond.
*5.* Obama: "You* can ship jobs overseas and get tax breaks for it." *We
have heard the same lie for *eight years* from Obama. In
2004<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFcfJLiJW2c>,
he ran for U.S. Senate from Illinois on a promise to end such tax breaks.
He did it again when he ran for President of the United States in
2008<http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/debates/transcripts/third-presidential-debate.html>.
And yet he has never done anything about it--because there are no such tax
breaks<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/04/fact-check-tax-break-for-shipping-jobs-overseas/>.
There is merely a deduction that companies can take for moving, even within
the U.S.--and which helps offset the double taxation of U.S. businesses
abroad, which would make American companies less competitive. *Repealing* it
would ship jobs overseas, actually.
*4.* Obama: "And* the production is up....What you’re saying is just not
true."* Obama contested a claim by Romney that production of oil and gas is
down on federal lands. He even accused Romney of not telling the truth. But
Romney was right--*exactly*
right<http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/330692/romney-was-right-oil-gas-production-federal-lands-decreasing-katrina-trinko>,
down to the percentage decline. Furthermore, Obama's claim that he has been
increasing oil and gas production on federal lands flies in the face of
recent policy decisions, such as closing
off<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/16/Obama-s-Alaska-Oil-Debacle>a
large part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to further
development. Obama has tried to take credit for expansion on *private* lands,
while opposing expansion wherever possible.
<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/katherine-fenton.png>*Screenshot
of Katherine Fenton from video of the women's question segment of the
debate<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZ22I1UYnA>
.*
*3.* Katherine Fenton: "In* what new ways do you intend to rectify the
inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only
72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?"* The false premise from a
member of the audience was especially egregious because her question had
been selected in advance by the moderator. The supposed wage gap between
men and women for the same work is largely a myth. As Diana
Furchtgott-Roth pointed
out<http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/330712/obama-and-romney-wage-gap-diana-furchtgott-roth>:
"Women make about 95 percent of what their male counterparts earn, if the
male counterparts are in the same job with the same experience."
*2.* Obama: "He* wanted to take them into bankruptcy without providing them
any way to stay open."* After Obama accused Romney of wanting American auto
manufacturers to go bankrupt, Romney pointed out that Obama had, in fact,
taken the auto companies through bankruptcy. Obama's retort was to accuse
Romney of wanting to take the companies bankrupt in order to put them out
of business--a blatant lie. Romney actually suggested in his famous 2008
op-ed <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=0>: "In a
managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive
and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check."
*1.* Candy Crowley: "He* did call it an act of terror."* The worst untruth
told by a moderator in presidential history. Candy Crowley's intervention
in favor of Obama caused the president's cheering section to burst into
applause, in violation of the rules, and there was little that Romney could
say in response. But she was
wrong<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/14/The-Big-Lie-Obama-Did-Not-Call-Libya-Attacks-Terrorism-on-September-12>--Obama's
reference to "acts of terror" in his Sep. 12 statement was in a general,
abstract sense, and came long after he had described the 9/11 attacks on
U.S. diplomatic missions as demonstrations against an anti-Islamic video.
Even Crowley seemed to realize what she had done: it wasn't long before she
walked back her own comment.
For more on Crowley's lie, see Terry's post
HERE<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/crowley-gets-hand-caught-in-the-candy-jar/>
.
*~Eowyn*
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