Matt Lauer Vs Paul Ryan On RNC Speech
September 5, 2012
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as posted by the channel"When [Paul] Ryan appeared on Tuesday's "Today," he was probably hoping for a friendlier welcome than the one Matt Lauer gave him. Lauer was unusually relentless with Ryan, asking him just one light-hearted question over the course of the five-minute interview.
"There are some people who are claiming that you played a little fast and loose with the truth on certain key elements," he said by way of an opening. "I'm not just talking about Democratic analysts. I'm talking about some independent fact-checkers. Would you concede that while many of the things you said were effective, some were not completely accurate?"
Ryan was, not surprisingly, unwilling to concede this, and went on to defend the now-infamous story he told about a GM plant that closed in his hometown of Janesville, saying that he never meant to accuse President Obama of being responsible for its closure...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from The Huffington Post
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