ads and ...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 single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold. The Daily Beast 's Michael Tomasky : "Paul Ryan's Convention Speech and His Web of Lies -- Paul Ryan pushed American politics into new territory with his convention speech, effectively daring Democrats and the media to call him out on his string of blatant falsehoods... Those three lies are just the beginning of a cavalcade that followed." Slate's Dave Weigel : "I was in the cheap seats, not on carpet, when Ryan plowed through one of the more impressive strings of whoppers we've seen at this level. Ryan's been doling out chunks of this speech for weeks, which made the fibs sound even stranger." Salon's Joan Walsh : "Paul Ryan's Brazen Lies -- Paul Ryan gave a feisty anti-Obama speech that will have fact-checkers working for days. His most brazen lie accused President Obama of "raiding" Medicare by taking the exact same $716 billion that Ryan and the House GOP notoriously voted to slash. It was stunning. But that's not all." The New Republic 's Jonathan Cohn : "The Most Dishonest Convention Speech ... Ever? -- At least five times, Ryan misrepresented the facts. And while none of the statements were new, the context was. It's one