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Ryan mocked in media for inability to defend his own budget plan
Media figures spent Wednesday morning mocking vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)’s inability to defend his budget plan or provide any specific numbers in what should have been a softball interview with Fox News’s Brit Hume. Media Matters reports that Ryan, who is widely lauded as a “budget guru”…
Paul Ryan praised stimulus spending in letters to Obama official
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) asked the Obama administration for millions from the $840 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help an energy conservation company in Wisconsin, telling his constituents the money would help “create or retain approximately 7,600 new jobs” in his district for up to six years. Despite repeatedly…
Jon Stewart: Romney merely the delivery system for Paul Ryan
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Tuesday night mocked Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for claiming to be a fiscal conservative while voting in favor of two wars, TARP, tax cuts for the rich and Medicare Part D. Noting that many Republicans considered Ryan to be an intellectual leader of…
Maddow: Paul Ryan an Ayn Rand follower, not a fiscal conservative
On her show Tuesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow disputed the idea that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was fiscally conservative. Maddow noted that Ryan — Mitt Romney’s new running mate — had “voted for all of the things in the George W. Bush era that cost a lot of money…
Paul Ryan’s Wisconsin challenger: He is ‘completely out of touch’
Democratic candidate Rob Zerban said Tuesday that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) had done a poor job of representing his Congressional district. “He supported unfair trade practices and trade agreements that have moved our manufacturing base overseas,” Zerban told The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur. Zerban is running for Ryan’s seat…
Paul Ryan mocked with internet meme at campaign event
Vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) ran into his own meme at an event in Colorado Tuesday, as an online campaign designed to expose his record on women’s health issues infiltrated his speech from above. Members of the Choose Ryan, Lose Choice campaign managed to fly a banner while Ryan…
Romney surrogate to CNN host: ‘Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead’
The chairman of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s national steering committee on Tuesday angrily shouted for a CNN anchor to “put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead” after she tried to fact check Republican claims about Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) plan to overhaul Medicare. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien pointed…
Reagan budget director attacks Paul Ryan’s economic policies
As Rep. Paul Ryan’s financial ideas garner more national scrutiny, a trio of stories this week show that they collide with past Republican policies, including those of one of the party’s icons. In an op-ed piece for the New York Times Monday, David Stockman, who served as the Office of…
Maddow: Ryan pick better than ‘Christmas in August’ for Democrats
On Monday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” veteran newsman Dan Rather joined host Rachel Madddow to discuss Vice Presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)’s difficulties as be steps out of the right-wing media bubble and into the view of actual American citizens, who, it turns out, are neither…
Jon Stewart blasts media for banal banter about Paul Ryan
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Monday night mocked the media for failing substantively cover Mitt Romney’s new running mate, Paul Ryan. He blasted the mainstream outlets for not having a real discussion about the issues, instead focusing on Ryan’s penchant for catching catfish with his bare hands or…
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