{"id":2249,"date":"2012-09-01T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2012-09-01T16:44:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T23:44:01","slug":"republicans-make-their-own-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Make Their Own Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One complaint expressed by many during the RNC was that Spiff Romney and Paul Randyan filled their speeches with lies and deceptions. Of course, the poor, persecuted, beleaguered conservative media refuted claims immediately with the statement <a title=\"In Lockstep: Conservative Media Turn To Attacking The Fact-Checkers\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2012\/08\/31\/in-lockstep-conservative-media-turn-to-attackin\/189688\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not going [to] let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2251\" title=\"romneyfacts\">Yes, facts have been nothing but a bother for conservative Republicans in the joke that is Con-a-thon 2012 and finally Spiff Romney vented his frustration at the convention.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2251\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2251\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2251\" title=\"romneyfacts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/romneyfacts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/romneyfacts.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/romneyfacts-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOP nominee, Spiff Romney, expresses his disdain for facts which may get in the way of his winning the presidency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One complaint expressed by many during the RNC was that Spiff Romney and Paul Randyan filled their speeches with lies and deceptions. Of course, the poor, persecuted, beleaguered conservative media refuted claims immediately with the statement &#8220;We&#8217;re not going [to] let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.&#8221; Yes, facts have been nothing but a bother &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Republicans Make Their Own Facts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,230,60,8,3],"tags":[234,22,646,147,660,9,199,21,98,596,19,661,645,150,642],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}