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bulldzr, yup, conservative lies are one of their real specialty plates.

There was the "Claim: Hillary Clinton was fired from the House Judiciary Committee's Watergate investigation by Chief Counsel Jerry Zeifman."
.. http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/zeifman.asp .. though in fact it was a lie as she was there until Nixon resigned in August '74 and the inquiry staff were disbanded.

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There were .. The Five Biggest Lies About Obamacare 08.17.145:45 AM ET .. bits ..

1. Healthy People Won’t Sign Up
2. You Won’t Be Able to Choose/Keep Your Doctor/Plan

It’s true that this happened in a limited number of cases—maybe six or seven million people who bought policies on the individual market got cancellation
letters from insurers telling them that their plans didn’t meet the minimum requirements under the new law, as NBC News explosively reported last fall.

It harmed the administration’s credibility, and rightly so. But it didn’t represent much of a change from the past — the “churn-rate” in the individual market has always been high.

3. Obamacare Will Explode the Federal Deficit
4. Okay, Then, It Will Bust States’ Budgets
5. Premium Rates Will Shoot Through the Roof

ALL of which were purely impure partisan subjective conjecture.

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Then there was all the conservative Benghazi myths ..September 11, 2013 .. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/11/explainer-a-year-of-benghazi-myths/195821 ..
and here .. http://www.criminalizeconservatism.com/2013/05/the-truth-behind-the-five-basic-benghazi-lies-by-conservative-liars.html

and the contrived scandal of her iPad use during Hillary's time at the State Department
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/04/01/the-medias-flawed-attempt-to-scandalize-hillary/203131

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Many lies not specifically directed against Hillary are more important to the health of the USA .. Robert Reich lays out a few on inequality

The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality Monday, May 5, 2014 .. bits ..

Lie number one: The rich and CEOs are America’s job creators. So we dare not tax them.

Lie number two: People are paid what they’re worth in the market. So we shouldn’t tamper with pay.

Lie number three: Anyone can make it in America with enough guts, gumption, and intelligence. So we don’t need to do anything for poor and lower-middle class kids.

Lie number four: Increasing the minimum wage will result in fewer jobs. So we shouldn’t raise it.
http://robertreich.org/post/84828387105

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LOL .. this is a heady one on big conservative myths .. bits ..

The Top Ten Lies of American Conservatism

Big Lie # 10: Government is always incompetent at performing any task and cannot do anything right, ever. Furthermore, this can never be fixed; government,
unlike every other human organization, cannot be improved so that it works. Government should not be depended upon to perform any significant task.
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_10_-_6.html#Lie10

Big Lie # 9: The free market as described by Conservatives exists today ... or could exist today ... or has ever existed ... or could ever exist.
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_10_-_6.html#Lie9

Big Lie # 8: Conservatism has a special concern for individuals, individualism, and individual freedom.
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_10_-_6.html#Lie8

Big Lie #7: “Family Values” are an important priority of America’s Conservative leadership.
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_10_-_6.html#Lie7

Big Lie #6: America’s Conservative Leadership is really concerned about the happiness and prosperity of middle class Americans
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_10_-_6.html#Lie6

Big Lie #5: Conservatism treasures traditional American “Small Town” values.
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_5_-_2.html#Lie5

Big Lie #4: Conservatism prefers small government and local control over big government and distant federal control.
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_5_-_2.html#Lie4

Big Lie #3: America would be a better, happier, more prosperous, more secure nation if Conservatives controlled Congress and the White House.

This is where the rubber meets the road. This is the proof of the pudding. This is
the key question. This is the issue that Conservative Leaders will never discuss. It is this:

What kind of nation would America be if Conservatives controlled every branch and every level of government?
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_5_-_2.html#Lie3

Big Lie #2: Liberals are pointy headed, effete, gay, lesbian, effeminate, atheistic, naive, stupid, taxing and spending, socialistic, communistic, phony, pseudo-intellectual, feminist, anti-family, anti-Christian, incompetent, totalitarian, vegetarian, pro-witchcraft, bureaucratic, secular, anti-American, anti-church, low-IQ, evil, diabolical, anti-White, Satanic, treasonous, Godless, nincompoop, numbskull knotheads - and a bunch of other stuff like that.
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_5_-_2.html#Lie2

Big Lie #1: You Can Trust Us
http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_1.html#Lie1

http://www.liberalandproudofit.com/html/top_ten_lies_10_-_6.html

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See Tim Wise's excellent expose of institutionalized white privilege in the U.S.A from the very first law passed after the constitution was ratified .. the Nationalization Act 1790 .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790 , which decreed only immigrant whites of good standing could become citizens .. through how members of minority groups were excluded from benefits of social programs arising from the Great Depression, programs such as job insurance (help to the unemployed), housing loans, cash to start businesses and cash for tuition and living expenses .. how recipients of affirmative action/welfare back then were humanized in the media as hard done by and well meaning good whites worthy of government aid .. the media humanized them then, while today affirmative action/welfare recipients are portrayed in the conservative media as no good lazy bludgers, and whites who have benefited from government help for decades (still do much more than minorities) whinge about so-called mythical "reverse discrimination" .. note Lee Atwater "a pioneer of race-based political appeals" at about 49 in White Like Me

15 down in F6's, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=113494423 .

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Though it wouldn't much difference in 2016 as i gotta say Hillary and her staff should be careful to avoid too much of these sort of relatively minor mistakes.

Clinton Spins U.S. Rank on Gender Pay Posted on April 29, 2015
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/04/clinton-spins-u-s-rank-on-gender-pay/

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One more on the bell.

No ‘Veto Power’ for Clinton on Uranium Deal Posted on April 28, 2015

The author of “Clinton Cash” falsely claimed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State had “veto power” and “could have stopped”
Russia from buying a company with extensive uranium mining operations in the U.S. In fact, only the president has such power.
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/04/no-veto-power-for-clinton-on-uranium-deal/

Enough lies.