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If you can bear it.

UPDATE: The protesters were from ACT UP Philadelphia.

From the National Jewish Democratic Council: “American Jews will feel a sense of profound disappointment that two of the most important Republicans in the country have chosen to address – and thus court and legitimize – some of America’s most extreme and deeply disturbing social conservatives at today’s Values Voter Summit. The Southern Poverty Law Center urged public officials to …

Notice that he mentions his own wife and Paul Ryan’s, but didn’t dare suggest that Ann Romney too is at home doing laundry.

Ryan gave a speech here in North Carolina last night.

Americablog founder John Aravosis appeared on CNN to debate convention coverage with wingnut blogger Jennifer Rubin. Things get “a little heated” as Aravosis put it. Watch this.

Runner’s World clocks him on it. It turns out Paul Ryan has not run a marathon in less than three hours—or even less than four hours. A spokesman confirmed late Friday that the Republican vice presidential candidate has run one marathon. That was the 1990 Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota, where Ryan, then 20, is listed as having finished in …

The New York Times has published a lie-by-lie refuting of Romney and Ryan’s RNC speeches. An excerpt: Representative Paul D. Ryan used his convention speech on Wednesday to fault President Obama for failing to act on a deficit-reduction plan that he himself had helped kill. He chided Democrats for seeking $716 billion in Medicare cuts that he too had sought. …

Bam!

UPDATE: TMZ’s video player was borking the JMG template so you’ll have to watch the clip on their site. Commenters below have noted that Schock is strolling through Ybor City’s gayborhood with the local bathhouse visible over his shoulder.

How we you know that Paul Ryan’s RNC speech was completely full of lies? Because even an op-ed posted on Fox News has denounced him for it. To anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a …

I’m hoping somebody will edit this video down with one of the lie counters complete with a bell sound. Key quote: “Our rights come from nature and God – NOT from the government.” That’s when teabaggers all over the nation had a simultaneous hands-free orgasm.

(Via JMG reader David)

Post title stolen from Dan Savage.