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With?
With a divisive lie.
Anybody seen this bit of dot-connecting?
Bombshell Obama Vetting: 1979 Newspaper Article By Valerie Jarrett Father-In-Law Reveals Start Of Arab Purchase Of U.S. Presidency
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2734278%3ATopic%3A409672&xgs=1
Fill in some of the blanks concerning O’s career trajectory. After reading it, I don’t think the title is hyperbolic.
JHo wrote a long thing about it down below, William T.
Why should it “go without saying”? Do Romney and Ryan really believe it’s unbecoming to tell the truth about the media? This is a national scandal, not a joke, not something you shrug off as the normal burden conservatives must bear. America is bearing this burden; how much longer can it bear this anti-American assault on truth and our traditions? As we speak the media is selling the First Amendment down the river. Maybe Ryan knows something I don’t but he seems awfully blase about the threat to this country from the media.
I think Ryan realizes that railing against the media gets you nowhere politically. You can challenge them on specifics when they ask you direct questions, but otherwise you look like a whiner to many.
By the way, I agree that the media has created a very dangerous situation in this country, leaving very few who are willing to challenge those in power. I think the media should be firmly adversarial against whoever has political power.
When I think of “shrugging off” a burden, I think of it as thus shed, like an overcoat worn only across the shoulders — somewhat of a departure, I know, from the common understanding of “shrugging off.”
Thing is, America is well aware of the burden of media bias, and is responding to it with precisely my twisted understanding of “shrugging off” — by ignoring more and more just everything that comes from media sources that claim to be unbiased, on the grounds that any such claim is pure, self-serving bunk.
What the media did in 2008 and since that is dangerous is not so much in telling a biased story, but in ignoring stories that are vitally important. With the internet available, this practice was doomed to failure from the start.
Denver sure is blowing out the Raiders.
My Seahawks lost. Dammit.
That was a rather mealy mouthed r esponse. I expect more from Mr Ryan, cranky-d. No excuse – no surrender.
But the Media IS firmly adversarial against whoever has political power, Cranky. As long as there’s an (R) next to their name.
(Now if they have a (D) next to their names, the media is reduced to it’s standard lick-spittle posture.)
Has anybody heard from Mitt Romney lately?
Is he still thinking about running for President?
The Paper of Record denies this ‘bias’ thing of which you speak, and quotes some unbeknown to them candidate to prove it…
Anybody ever heard of this guy?
The way the press is now, if I was Romney and I won the presidency I’d drop the who ‘press core’ thing and refuse the US press any direct access. Then I’d put news on a web site and take town hall style questions through a web master. Just say “Fuck you, you’re no press. Fuck off and die idiots.”
A senior adviser, meanwhile, said the Romney campaign now has a “no-whining rule” about news coverage. (Mr. Ryan apparently missed the memo.)
Oh for god’s sake … now Ryan is “whining” for stating the obvious.
When anyone (and this would include us here) talks about the media rather than the important issues, the critical issues before us all, we give that media what it wants, for it is never happier than when talking about itself. Why else would Wallace have asked the question? Or are we supposed to believe he doesn’t already have the answer and can only get it from Paul Ryan of all people? Nonsense. Wallace is looking to give the media something other than what’s important to talk about for the next few days, and David Carr is happy to take up whatever dregs are left upon the floor.
If Ryan was capable of more he wouldn’t have been chosen.
THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?
Bill Keller: New York Times Is ‘Socially Liberal’
Then there’s WaPo: Will The Post be about news or opinion?
Go ahead and pull the other one, bitches.