Remember when football player Rosie Greer
sang on Marlo Thomas’ children’s album the song “It’s All Right to Cry. Crying
gets the hurt out of you.” Today he might sing in a political song album, “It’s
all right to lie, it gets the votes out for you.” Or image Mr. Rogers coming
out to the children after he changes into his sweater and tells the kiddies, “It’s
okay to lie, just like the campaigners do in the political neighborhood.”
It sounds a bit farfetched but it is what’s
happening. One case in point (out of many that could come from any candidate in
any party), Larry Corn told us that Mitt Romney was claiming the government
would control half the economy once Obamacare was up and running. Romney
continues to say it even when Glen Kessler of the Washington Post gave him a
score of four Pinnochios. Tweak it, bend it, twist it however you want it’s
still just a lie.
Over the past 20 years politicians have
learned that you can make one blatant lie after another and get by with it.
Even if you get caught in the lie, you won’t pay any consequences. We just seem
to expect it of politicians today. That’s too bad.
Will the mainstream media call you out on
your falsehoods? No way, there’s no money in it. Media buys and sells news,
real investigative news doesn’t bring in the cash. If the caught lie is
published at all it is lost in a bit on an inside page.
Now this has been true in local politics
for a long time but now it is a basic of national politics.
Smart politicians have figured out the
norms have changed says Mother Jones
and smart politicians like Mitt Romney know it.
Obama is not above giving some spin to
things, but I think it could cost him an election along with others that still
play by the old rules.
Analysis: Romney is Smarter than Obama in
today’s political arena. At least if that is how you define smart. Doublespeak
at work and we are long past 1984.
Sometimes you have to dig deeper in the media...
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ReplyDeleteI checked the article. If you look at the real facts (like, who was in office), 1/3 of the entire national debt was caused by Obama. And since 2009, none of the deficit has been caused by Bush. Each year, it is from Obama.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the Bush tax cuts for the middle class resulted in increased tax revenues, not lower revenues.
Yes, Bush left a mess. Some of the stuff he did made it worse (overspending), some things he did helped make things better (his tax cuts). But since Jan 2009, the mess has been all Obama's, and he has chosen to make it much worse: from gas prices to unemployment to the debt problem.