{"id":12448,"date":"2016-07-19T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T18:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12448"},"modified":"2016-07-19T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T18:29:47","slug":"lying-is-just-another-tool-for-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12448","title":{"rendered":"Lying is just another tool for the right&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after reading about the first day of the repub convention&#8230;all I can say is that mendacity is the new watchword for the right&#8230;lying has become just another tool for the right, the supposed &#8220;family values&#8221; party. The entire night was filled with lies&#8230;starting with the fully debunked &#8220;stand down&#8221; order from Benghazi to Melania Trump&#8217;s speech that blatantly stole whole paragraphs from Michelle Obama&#8217;s 2008 speech to the Democratic convention. But, lies don&#8217;t matter to the repubs these days&#8230;in fact, the bigger the lie the bigger the cheer at the convention&#8230;..and now they are lying about Melania&#8217;s background, saying she graduated from college when she quit after a part of a year&#8230;now, I&#8217;ve said this before&#8230;don&#8217;t these idiot repubs understand that there is an entire industry devoted to fact checking? The funniest thing I have seen with the plagiarized speech is that people have put both Michelle and Melania up on you tube side by side to show that the speech was stolen&#8230;and yet the Trump people continue to lie and say that the entire thing was original thought&#8230;god, I hate the fact that lying is now acceptable to one of the major parties here in the US&#8230;the damn repubs are ruining this country&#8230;.sad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after reading about the first day of the repub convention&#8230;all I can say is that mendacity is the new watchword for the right&#8230;lying has become just another tool for the right, the supposed &#8220;family values&#8221; party. The entire night was filled with lies&#8230;starting with the fully debunked &#8220;stand down&#8221; order from Benghazi to Melania Trump&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lying is just another tool for the right&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[190,1412,1413,752],"class_list":["post-12448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-lies","tag-melania-trump","tag-plagiarism","tag-republican-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12449,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions\/12449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}