He tried to play it off as simply forgetting a few details after the passage of time, but the fact is that Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan blatantly lied about his marathon time.
In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, Paul Ryan, when asked about his personal best marathon time, stated, "Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something."
Only problem is, in the only marathon he's ever run, the 1990 Grandma's Marathon, he finished in 4:01:25.
When called on this lie, he stated, "the race was more than 20 years ago, but my brother Tobin - who ran Boston last year - reminds me that he is owner of the fastest marathon in the family and has never himself ran a sub-three. If I were to do any rounding, it would certainly be to four hours, not three. He gave me a good ribbing over this at dinner tonight."
Why lie about something that is so easy to fact-check? And almost as egregious as lying about a marathon time is mixing up the past participle of "to run."
In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, Paul Ryan, when asked about his personal best marathon time, stated, "Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something."
Only problem is, in the only marathon he's ever run, the 1990 Grandma's Marathon, he finished in 4:01:25.
When called on this lie, he stated, "the race was more than 20 years ago, but my brother Tobin - who ran Boston last year - reminds me that he is owner of the fastest marathon in the family and has never himself ran a sub-three. If I were to do any rounding, it would certainly be to four hours, not three. He gave me a good ribbing over this at dinner tonight."
Why lie about something that is so easy to fact-check? And almost as egregious as lying about a marathon time is mixing up the past participle of "to run."
Ryan also played fast and loose with some other facts in his speech, such as criticizing the Obama administration for the closure of a GM plant in his district when actually it closed during the Bush era; or knocking the President for being against a debt reduction bill when Ryan himself voted against it. Even Fox News, hardly the representative of the allegedly liberal media, called him on his misstatements.And any runner will know the difference between a 4:01 marathon (not a bad time) and a 2:50 something marathon (spectacular if you're not an Olympian. That 1:11 he shaved off his time is not the result of the haze of the years - it's blatant misrepresentation.
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