Republican Convention: Beware of Big Lies

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BET's Keith Boykin runs down the anti-Obama rhetoric that he can already predict will come out of the RNC.

1. Higher Taxes Will Hurt "Job Creators"

Despite what Republicans have been arguing lately, taxes are actually lower today than at any time in decades. Here's the history they don't want you to know.

For six of the eight years of the Reagan administration, the top marginal income tax rate was 50 percent. Under Republican President Richard Nixon the top tax rate stood at 70 percent. And under Republican President Dwight Eisenhower the top tax rate was 91 percent.

just one of the biggest right wing mistruths rebuked.

2. The Stimulus Didn't Work

The truth is the stimulus created nearly three million jobs. And in a recent survey, 92 percent of economists agreed that the stimulus lowered the unemployment rate, which dropped from 10 percent in 2009 to nearly 8 percent under Obama.

the Pres. and his people were piss poor at explaining the truth and letting the right wing lies create the narrative for his unprecedented accomplishments. think they learned a lesson there, won't happen again.

When Obama came into office, the economy was losing 700,000 jobs a month. Once the stimulus was passed, the job losses slowed and eventually turned around. Within a few months of the Recovery Act, the recession ended. And a few months later, jobs started coming back again.

failure yes by the right wing to tell "we the people" the truth.