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Jodie Layton, a convention goer from Utah watching the Ryan speech, said she was blown away by the vice presidential candidate. But she said she was surprised to hear that after his speech about taking responsibility, he’d pinned a Bush-era plant closing on Obama.
“It closed in December 2008?” she asked, making sure she heard a HuffPost reporter’s question right. After a long pause, she said, “It’s happening a lot on both sides. It’s to be expected.”
It’s to be expected. Where on earth would she get such an outrageous idea?
CNN’s David Gergen, while acknowledging some “misstatements” in Ryan’s address, suggested that pundits focus elsewhere. “But let’s not forget that this was a speech about big ideas,” he told his audience.
If I read one more pundit whine about how nobody believes the press anymore, and the country is so horribly polarized, and we can’t understand how hard it is for anyone to deliver the news when the world is just magically like this, I will put my fist through something. This isn’t the first consequence-free election, but it’s shaping up to be the one where the press finally openly just says fuck it, we can’t possibly be bothered anymore.
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Clearly a cable news viewer.
Our elite press, who are all quite well off and do not have to worry regardless of who is elected, simply do not care and cannot be bothered to actually learn the facts and check what people are saying. For them, it is all a rather silly pointless game. For the rest of us, there are very real consequences, some of which could well be devastating.
Or someone who gets their news from a small town newspaper owned by a major media chain.
*sigh* Stand by for the endless nit picking of everything said at the Democratic convention and woe be to the delegate or official who doesn’t get a year or a percentage right. After that, Ryan will be forgiven because “the Democrats do it too”.
Or both. In any case, she’s absorbed the false equivalency principle and the learned helplessness like a pro.
Must-see TV…NOT!
I vow to pay exactly as much to it as I did the RNC last week.
It won’t be as much fun anyway. The Dems won’t have an old man yelling at furniture.
In this case, and that of many others who embrace this useless meme, it becomes and excuse to ignore reality when it conflicts with their worldview. She has already made up her mind and does not want to be confronted by the fact that the Republicans are lying through their teeth.
I think that the last time I watched a convention was 1968.
Yes, but the ’68 DNC was a laugh riot. Among other kinds.
It was a riot alright, but I do not remember many laughs.
don’t go goin’ all amare stoudemire on us, allison
zactly
me too=0
Think I will toddle off. I am fading fast here and have young minds to corrupt in the morning. Take care all.
Gergen represents a good deal of what is wrong with American journalism. As usual, as with most institutional problems in American culture, money is the key corrupting factor.
[emphasis supplied]
This disclosure occurred after Gergen on a number of occasions over the past year has defended Bain/Romney. For instance:
The full story is here.
*heh* You’re So Bain…! ;-)
will do; you take care, too, Doc
Republicans started the “both sides do it” refrain during the Bush era. Sometimes, it was true. Most often, it was a lie, AFAIK.
Condaleeza Rice mastered the “both sides do it” response. She usually prefaces or follows it with “frankly,” as though she is talking out of school and perhaps just a little reluctant to share this inside info with the interviewer.
When Keith Olberman was on MSNBC, he would descry “false equivalencies.” (Don’t know if he still does it on Current.)
Now, though, Democrats say the same thing, which is double irony.
Thing is, no one in media then follows up with, “Even if that is true, so what? This is not only Republican versus Democrats. It’s about the American people. Is it right or wrong? Do the American people deserve better?”
No, the media never follows up with that because that kind of follow up would expose an inconvenient truth.
BTW, Colbert’s “response” to Guergen was something like, “Yes, big ideas! Like, lying is handy.”
Guergen was once legit. I guess money and soul are interchangeable for hi.
Paul Ryan is a psychopathic liar. He’s so used to making shit up that he isn’t even aware of when he is doing it. He knew that the press would never fact-check is outrageous lie about his marathon time and got blind sided when his own brother outed him.
It’s like my dad used to say about Nixon: “I can always tell when Nixon is lying … his lips move.”
The pubs are real huffy because some dem said Petey ‘Marathon Man’ Ryan was as big a liar as Joeseph Goebbels, Hitlers propaganda minister.
If Willard gets in, it will be either Rusbo or Beck for propaganda minister. I going with the fellow momo on this one.
Since this Special Comment was dated 2010-11-15, Olbermann was 100% wrong in his claims that MSNBC was fair and balance. I remember exactly when MSNBC went from being a legitimate news agency to becoming a corporate throat. It was early March 2010, right before the Affordable Care Act was signed. This was when Maddow, Schultz and O’Donnell (Olbermann was on a leave of absence) went from saying this act was worthless one day, because of all its major shortcomings (a Republican mandate with no single-payer or public option), to saying how great it was the next, because it allow our state legislators to take up the fight our Congressional Democrats didn’t want any part of. It was literally like night and day with MSNBC. And ever since then, they’ve has been feeding us half-truths.
They pride themselves in saying that they don’t lie like FoxNews, but they see nothing wrong in giving us half the story in order to lead us into believing that the conservaDems (Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid) are fighting for us. And to think I used to actually trusted these money grubbing traitors. I feel like I need another shower.
Gergen reps for the MOTU, as does Obama. Since Paul Ryan has been preapproved by the MOTU… Gergens role is to distract us from issues that could potentially hurt the MOTU.
Egggzackly.
Oh, and let’s not forget, when someone asks a media jackal why something that reflects badly on Republicans wasn’t given anywhere near the coverage as something that was twisted around and made to reflect badly on Democrats, the standard response as given by jackals like Howard Kurtz (a good buddy of Rush Limbaugh’s and hubby of GOP operative Shari Annis) is usually along the lines of “we did TOO cover it!” Yeah — once, on page C47, next to the obits. No wall-to-wall coverage such as that given to most any smear dropped by a key GOP operative.
David Gergen has always been a movement Republican. Clinton tried to co-opt him by hiring him to be a White House mouthpiece, but once he was off the White House payroll it was back to the old grind.