Geez, Johnson has been on a real tear lately via his F&F appearances – and it’s largely been a lot of crap. He mentions that Biden is a servant/patriot but then goes on to basically discount that with his totally uncalled for comment about “dignity” and “ambition”. Unbelievable.

This morning, in order to prep the FOX “news” viewer for this Thursday’s townhall style debate, Johnson looked back at past townhall debates. In a debate that was widely regarded as a Kerry win (even by the right-wingers on FOX “news”), Johnson did a little revisionist history by quipping that he thought Bush won (seemingly because Bush used some humor while Kerry seemed stiff). Yeah, whatever, Johnson. Pffft.

Then to really fire the folks up to further see the President in a negative light, he analyzed a 2008 Obama/McCain debate and declared that Obama said some “God awful offensive”* things about McCain. He didn’t bother to give us an example of what Obama said that was so awful. Guess we should just take his word for it, huh?

Johnson has been doing this very biased sort of commentary on F&F for some time now but the way he sets this stuff up is getting ridiculous. The morning of the VP debate he was on F&F again with a stupid graphic that showed what he thought Biden and Ryan needed to do that night. After having made sure to point out that polls show that voters have a more favorable view of Ryan than they do of Biden, he went on to say that Biden “will laugh, he may cry” to connect with the people. Funny how some “analysts” like Johnson are now giving Biden hell for the laughs/grins considering it looks like they were totally expecting it.

To further set the stage for bias against Biden and to manipulate the viewers’ expectations, Johnson’s chart (in the below link) highlighted that Biden’s assignment would be to “trash Romney” while Ryan would “be positive”. Then Johnson’s chart told the viewers that Biden’s goal would be to “scare” the folks while Ryan’s would be to “reassure” them. Good gawd, bias much, Johnson?! I wonder how Johnson feels now after making these stupid predictions, you know, considering Ryan couldn’t restrain himself from scaring the folks and attacking Obama/Biden? LOL!

However, Johnson, the right-wing tool, wasn’t finished manipulating the viewers yet. He went on to say that the VP debate matters in terms of “momentum”, “narrative” and to prove that Obama/Biden plan is a “failure”. Clearly Johnson believes that a debate win for Ryan would further hurt Obama (and perhaps it would). But that wasn’t good enough for Johnson with regards to setting up the folks’ mindset. Nah, Johnson wanted to make sure that Obama took a hit no matter what the outcome happened to be. So Johnson said that “if Biden is half decent, he’s going to wind up embarrassing the President because everyone is going to say why was Biden so good and Obama so bad.”

So there you have it, FOX viewers, if Ryan wins, Obama loses. If Biden wins, Obama loses. (eye roll)

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/10/11/peter-johnson-jr-sizes-up-the-contenders-in-tonights-debate/

*sorry I can’t double check the exact words as I didn’t have my DVR set to tape today’s F&F but this is what I remember hearing him say

Was watching F&F and they raised the issue of Catholic lawsuits against the government re: coverage for contraception. Went to Politifact and Fact check to see if they’d examined Biden’s declaration. Not yet, but I did find errors in my summary of their findings last night

This morning, Politifact examines 17 alleged lies (instead of 18 as I’d counted last night): 8 by Ryan and 9 by Biden (not 10).

- Ryan’s score: true (0), mostly true (1), half true (2), mostly false (3), false (1), “lie of the year” (1) and “pants on fire” (0)

- Biden’s score: true (1), mostly true (2), half true (5) mostly false (1), false (0), “lie of the year” (0), and “pants on fire” (0).

Biden still wins on points.

It is absolutely essential that our President take his A-game into the last two debates against MagicUnderwear Mitt. Relentlessly call out MUM for his flipflops and outright lies. Screw Fux Noise and their bogus criticisms. There is just too much at stake in this election. We can’t afford a repeat of the failed policies of Dumbya.

That minute is longer than I expected so went onto Factcheck. They’ve analysed a total of 12 statements, 9 by Ryan and 3 by Biden.

According to them, Ryan got
A) one thing right (Hillary Clinton did talk about Bashir Assad being a reformer, but Factcheck goes on to say that she was reporting the views of some people in congress; I beg to note, your Honor, that Biden was penalised for presenting truncated information),
B) one misquotation and
C) seven (7) wrong.

Biden was found to have
A) exaggerated in one case (on republicans voting against funds for Embassy security; all they did was reduce the funding),
B) presented incomplete information in the second case (Romney would have chased down more people than only Osama Bin Laden, Biden was penalised for failing to present the whole picture),
C) being wrong on certain aspects of Romney’s tax plan (where he and Ryan got into a stuff-inventing contest).

Factcheck does not say whether or not they analysed any other statements by Biden. Seems they present only the corroborated lies whereas Politifact examines all controversial statements including those that are rated true, mostly true or half true.

Had a minute so went to Politifact to see how their fact-checking of controversial statements was going. They’ve analysed 18 statements: 8 by Ryan (out of 24 alleged lies) and 10 by Biden (couldn’t find any list of his alleged lies).

Their conclusions so far are:

Ryan (8 statements): true (0), mostly true (1), half true (1), mostly false (3), false (1), “lie of the year” (1) and “pants on fire” (0).

Biden (10 statements): true (1), mostly true (3), half true (6), mostly false (0), false (0), “lie of the year” (0) and “pants on fire” (0).

I’d say Biden is winning on points. Also because
the reasons for less than “true” in his case focus on his failure to provide all the details. Having done some formal debating (Roberts Rules of Order) in my well-spent youth, I know for a fact that it’s a lot easier to invent stuff than to stick to the facts.

@ Kent Brockman- Even Pauline’s claim of “climbing” those fourteeners is an exaggeration. I lived for many years in Colorado and you don’t climb those mountains. You hike up them, to be sure the trails of which there are several on all the peaks are steep in places but there’s not an inch of technical climb. The guy is not and will never be Reinhold Messner.

When even the FoxGOPTV pukes can’t bring themselves to lie and say that Lyin Ryan won the debate…what should that tell the mindless FoxGOPTV sheep? Perhaps our visiting trolls from last night can answer that.

The FoxGOPTV pukes can’t bring themselves to discuss all of Lyin Ryan’s lies either. Funny, that.

@Joseph West, I remember in the 2000 presidential debates when ignorant, low intelligence dumbya bush smirked whenever Vice President Gore said anything. True, Gore smirked whenever dumbya said anything, but didn’t we all? Anyway, I don’t remember the outrage at dumbya smirking, but I remember the shit-flinging and oinking at FoxGOPTV when Gore smirked. neocons are hypocrites.

I find it humorous that he compared him to Dr. Evil, considering Dr. Evil’s ship looks just like a great big “Peter”…. or a gigantic “Johnson”…. or a huge “Junior”…

Yesterday, Huck made the claim that Biden was drunk (even though Biden is a teetotaler) — today, PJ claims Biden is senile.

To which I’ll say just one thing:

How bad must your candidate suck if he just got his ass handed to him by a drunken, senile guy 27 years his senior? LMAO!

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Joe Biden is the cool grandpa that let 11 year old you ride around on his lap while doing 60 down a farm road in his fully restored ‘72 Challenger and gave you sips off his Coors when no one was looking.

Paul Ryan is the younger cousin who saw grandpa give you a sip of his beer then went and told your mom, and your mom is like “who cares, go play or something” but Paul Ryan can’t go play because he has no friends.

Did widdle ole Paulie get roughed up by some street brawler? Yet Paulie sez he’s climbed 40 peaks over 14K feet, ran a marathon under 3 hrs yet RWers won’t let him live a day without their helpin’ words O’ hate fer the Evul Libruls. Looks like Ryan is a real 47%er, can’t take charge of hizself.

I wish someone would check St Ronnie of Reagan’s debates with Walter Mondale in 1984. For some reason, I can’t get out of my head the image of that annoying smirk and chuckle that accompanied Reagan’s “There you go again” line. And, FWIW, Reagan was 73 at the time—4 years older than VP Biden is now.

Okay, maybe that’s not really a great analogy, given the eventual disclosure of Reagan’s Alzheimer’s but it is interesting (Reagan’s opponents poked fun at Reagan’s age but never went so far as to call him senile). I also don’t recall the right accusing Pat Robertson’s disgusting post-9/11 comments as the result of senility (even though he was 71 when he said them) nor has senility been offered as an excuse for any of his other reprehensible comments since then.

They’re still oinking about Vice President Biden “disrespectin” their boy blunder Lyin Ryan, and yet, not a one of the assholes will talk about Lyin Ryan’s 24 lies/myths in 40 minutes. They keep avoiding the inconvenient truth.

Another sign that the dopes on the right don’t get pop culture. Dr. Evil was a spoof of 007 films and patterned after Lorne Michaels of SNL.

Joe Biden, on the other hand is real and just kicked their idiot boy’s ass in the Bluegrass.

Headly wrote: "Reading tweets on the air is the 21st century equivalent of “Some people say . . .”

Was thinking the same thing and I think the source is exactly the same, too. It’s become so fashionable to talk about this person or that person: it’s supposed to make one sound attentive to individuals but I’m pretty sure most of those stories are invented by the speech-writers.

I once saw an op-ed by Peter, where he turned his head from side to side as he delivered his set-piece. Sent shivers up and down my spine it did.

Reading tweets on the air is the 21st century equivalent of “Some people say . . .”

James Rosen blocked me on Twitter when I called him on the same tactic for a NewsHounds post. I wrote all about it in my post Aunty Em Ericann’s Bun Fight With James Rosen of Fox “News” at http://notnowsilly.blogspot.com/2012/05/aunty-ems-bun-fight-with-james-rosen-of.html