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clydefrand

(4,325 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 09:33 AM Mar 2014

Does anyone know if the 'Paul ryan" story is true?

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/03/07/paul-ryan-brown-bag-lunch-story-stolen/

His 'brown bag' story at CPAC straight out of a book?

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Does anyone know if the 'Paul ryan" story is true? (Original Post) clydefrand Mar 2014 OP

Were his lips moving? If they were, he was lying. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #1

The article you cited explains it very well. femmocrat Mar 2014 #2

I have every reason to believe it's entirely true Cirque du So-What Mar 2014 #3

No, not straight out of a book. It was modified to bash the school lunch program JHB Mar 2014 #4

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

1. Were his lips moving? If they were, he was lying.

Reply to clydefrand (Original post)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 09:34 AM

Mar 2014

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

2. The article you cited explains it very well.

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Sat Mar 8, 2014, 09:37 AM

Mar 2014

You can't make this stuff up.

Cirque du So-What

(25,965 posts)

3. I have every reason to believe it's entirely true

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Sat Mar 8, 2014, 10:10 AM

Mar 2014

It fits with a pattern of prevarication on Lyin' Ryan's part.

JHB

(37,161 posts)

4. No, not straight out of a book. It was modified to bash the school lunch program

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Sat Mar 8, 2014, 10:22 AM

Mar 2014

The original version didn't involve a government program, it was just someone offering a homeless kid they knew either a lunch everyday or money to buy one. The kid, given that choice, asked if it was the lunch if it could be put in a paper bag, because of what that symbolized to the kid.

The kid was not rejecting an available lunch because somehow the school lunch symbolized something less to them.

Now, it's possible that Ryan didn't make it up himself, since he presented it as an anecdote told to him by someone else, giving him "deniability" as to who turned a book passage into a bullshit political anecdote. But make no mistake, it's a bullshit anecdote.

To paraphrase Dick Cheney, "Reagan taught us that bullshit anecdotes don't matter." #Ryan-Cheney2016

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