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Salon’s Joan Walsh:“Paul Ryan’s Brazen Lies — Paul Ryan gave a feisty anti-Obama speech that will have fact-checkers working for days. His most brazen lie accused President Obama of “raiding” Medicare by taking the exact same $716 billion that Ryan and the House GOP notoriously voted to slash. It was stunning. But that’s not all.”

The New Republic‘s Jonathan Cohn:“The Most Dishonest Convention Speech … Ever?— At least five times, Ryan misrepresented the facts. And while none of the statements were new, the context was. It’s one thing to hear them on a thirty-second television spot or even in a stump speech before a small crowd. It’s something else entirely to hear them in prime time address, as a vice presidential nominee is accepting his party’s nomination and speaking to the entire country.”

Honestly, with all of that, you hardly notice that Andrew Borowitz’s latest piece is parody:“Ryan Launches Campaign Theme of Lying About Everything”

In an email this morning, Paul Ryan said,“This is not an ordinary election — because this is not an ordinary time.” Is that, perhaps, his justification for lying through his grin?