“If Paul Ryan was Pinocchio his nose would be back in Janesville right now” — that was the response to vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s Republican National Convention speech tonight from Obama for America spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

The rapid response from the Obama campaign and liberal pundits was to attack Ryan as a good speaker with false lines. MSNBC’s Al Sharpton, for instance, called Ryan “an eloquent person who does not tell the truth.”