I can only imagine how much attention this story would be getting if it was a Democrat telling this easily disprovable lie, but given all of the other lies Ryan has been telling, it seems not only to be a pattern that Paul Ryan will lie about just about anything, but that the media will allow him to get away with it for the most part and either shrug their shoulders, or actually try to defend the lies.

Martin Bashir took Ryan to task for the latest, where Ryan got caught lying about having run a marathon in under three hours, and then later coming back and said he'd gotten his time mixed up with his brother's time. Which of course no one believes because the explanation is as ridiculous as the original lie. I was glad to see this story start getting some traction and more voices pointing out the obvious, that this is part of a larger pattern with Ryan. As Bashir noted in the clip above, Republicans were hoping to get a much more "serious" candidate in Ryan than they did with Palin, but even she wasn't just telling outright, bald-faced lies like we're getting from Ryan.

Here's more from Steve Benen: Ryan plays 'fast' and loose with the facts: