Paul Ryan wasted a good opportunity to make himself and Mitt Romney appear more human to voters by discussing their shared struggles of trying to hold down their erections during the reading of their fathers' wills.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

EnviroDouche: It's FAUX News and everything they say is a lie. So the article has to be a complete fabrication.

/ what I have learned on FARK

Hrm...looks like opposite day. Guess I'm going to work naked.

Of course. Fox News loves Obama. It's true, see:

/Fox news calling out and criticizing a republican



IT BEGINS.

Chummer45: This article sums up why I hate CNN. What a useless "news" organization.

Even better was the night before when Erin Burnett, host of the hard-hitting CNN show "Erin Burnett is Very Pretty," said she teared up at Ann Romney's embrace of her meal ticket husband at the end of her sales pitch.

holeinthedonut: This discussion about the author's sexual orientation, how does that change the facts in the article? If an elephant had written it, would the facts be untrue? Address the issues please.

If an elephant had written it, it would have a far more republican slant.

[wtfamireading?]

I mean that in a good way.

FOX calling Ryan out on his lies and sins of omissions? What is this?

Is this to try to get the jump on the inevitable fact checker articles that will roll later on today?

Fact: While Ryan tried to pin the downgrade of the United States' credit rating on spending under President Obama, the credit rating was actually downgraded because Republicans threatened not to raise the debt ceiling

Fact: While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush

Both correct and both correctly noted earlier in this Fark thread but I really never would have imagined FOX being one of the first corporate news outlets to point it out.

What else we got here?

Fact: Though Ryan insisted that President Obama wants to give all the credit for private sector success to government, that isn't what the president said.

Wow, that's about as close as anyone on FOX will ever get to calling out the "Obama says you didn't build your own business" lie that is the centerpiece of the 2012 GOP ticket.

Fact: Though Paul Ryan accused President Obama of taking $716 billion out of Medicare, the fact is that that amount was savings in Medicare reimbursement rates (which, incidentally, save Medicare recipients out-of-pocket costs, too) and Ryan himself embraced these savings in his budget plan

OMG, the 716 billion dollar "theft" lie exposed as well?

What sins of omission did she cover?

Ryan didn't mention his extremist stance on banning all abortions with no exception for rape or incest, a stance that is out of touch with 75% of American voters

Ryan didn't mention his previous plan to hand over Social Security to Wall Street.

Ryan didn't mention his numerous votes to raise spending and balloon the deficit when George W. Bush was president

OMG I'm in total agreement with a FOX opinion article. Somebody hold me! I'mma skeered.

ghare: Lsherm: Relatively Obscure: borg: Written by an openly gay Democrat.

I for one can see how whether or not this writer is gay is a very important point to make. Thanks for driving that most important of points home for us.

If you look her up, she's an activist for gay and liberal causes. Since the Republican platform isn't exactly gay or liberal friendly, it's a fair fact to note. It's no different than pointing out when someone from the Family Research Council writes an article against the Democratic platform.

She's not a journalist, she's an advocate. There's nothing wrong with that, but context is key.

Whether or not someone is gay is pertinent to whether or not facts are facts.


Riiiggghhhht.

I'm not gonna go that far, but there's a point buried in there. With all of us getting the vapors because Fox ran an article that is critical of the GOP candidate, it's worth noting that the author ain't our typical Fox news fare.

And in the current political climate, sexual orientation happens to be an issue. Unfortunately.

Does it change the points she was making? Hell naw. Does it explain why she might have been looking at Paul Ryan with critical eyes? You bet.

/More relevant is that her partner's a Brazilian.
//There's a stock joke in there about having a Brazilian sexual partners and Mormonism... but it's too early.
///It probably wouldn't be that good anyway.

There's a drinking game with Sally Kohn FOX articles. You open up the comments and do a shot every time someone attacks her sexuality somehow. Try not to die of alcohol poisoning.

I wish Foxnews had not posted this

Nanny sure as shiat will be calling to come check her anti virus