Grandma Catches Paul Ryan In A Lie

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We all know that Paul Ryan is a fit dude, his addiction to P90x is legendary. What we didn't know till last week that Ryan at one point as a pretty-good marathoner. On a radio interview last week Ryan said that his personal best time for the 26.1 mile race was ". . . under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something." That's really good. How good is that? He'd probably finish in the top 10 this year's Delaware Marathon with a 6 minute 50 second mile pace. But wait, Ryan is not that fast, not by a long shot. Ryan's one marathon on record, Grandma's Marathon 1990, has Ryan running a 4 hour and 1 minute marathon. Big difference.

Things I Learned from the GOP Convention

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Mitt Romney had a little get together in Florida this week with some of his closest angry white friends. From this convention, I learned a few things about the Republican Party. Okay, maybe not learned them, maybe I just had the ideas reinforced.

Rude Pundit’s Lesson on Republican Economics

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Chris Christie brought shame to his alma matter once again by sweating all over the stage the the GOP clustf*ck, and repeating the thoroughly discredited lies of Republican economics. I didn't watch the speech, but it promoted the Rude Pundit to write up this summary of Christie's economic theories and so Christie accidentally did some good.

Late Night Video — TDS Rips the Media a New One

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Jon Stewart is running his show from Tampa this week covering the RNC convention with their own theme -- The Road to Jeb Bush 2016. In this clip -- he calls to task the media talking heads lamenting how bad Hurricane Issac might be for Republicans in some of the dumbest horserace commentary ever:

Secrecy envelopes RNC’s racist incident

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Two GOP delegates threw nuts at a black CNN camera woman and taunted her saying, "This is how we feed animals." They were ejected, but shortly thereafter the Romney campaign, the GOP and CNN threw a blanket of secrecy over the incident and more than 24 hours later, the secrecy is holding. ...

The Polling Report [8.29.12]

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A small little polling report for you today, after the motherload of polls released yesterday. There is only one state level poll, and that is of Iowa by PPP, which changes Iowa to Lean Obama to Slim Obama. Meanwhile, some national polls are detecting a bounce from the GOP convention .... for President Obama.