Posted on 08/29/2012 7:16:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster.
A half dozen fact-checking organizations and websites have refuted Romney’s claims that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law and will cut Medicare benefits by $216 billion.
Last Sunday’s New York Times even reported on its front page that Romney has been “falsely charging” President Obama with removing the work requirement. Those are strong words from the venerable Times. Yet Romney is still making the false charge. Ads containing it continue to be aired.
Presumably the Romney campaign continues its false claims because they’re effective. But this raises a more basic question: How can they remain effective when they’ve been so overwhelmingly discredited by the media?
The answer is the Republican Party has developed three means of bypassing the mainstream media and its fact-checkers.
The first is by repeating big lies so often in TV spots – financed by a mountain of campaign money – that the public can no longer recall (if it ever knew) that the mainstream media and its fact-checkers have found them to be lies.
The second is by discrediting the mainstream media – asserting it’s run by “liberal elites” that can’t be trusted to tell the truth. “I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans,” Newt Gingrich charged at a Republican debate last January, in what’s become a standard GOP attack line.
The third is by using its own misinformation outlets – led by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his yell-radio imitators, book publisher Regnery, and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, along with a right-wing blogosphere – to spread the lies, or at least spread doubt about what’s true.
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The Twerp speaks.
Nonsense. A half dozen highly partisan organizations calling themselves "fact-checkers" have made the bald assertion that Romney's claim was false without providing a shred of evidence to back it up. That is spin, not a refutation.
Stand up Bob! Oops! Sorry. You are standing up.
Someone in prime time...maybe Ryan or Romney themselves, need to list the new ‘acceptable’ types of work that qualifies as a work. Many of them generate zero income. It is clearly meant to nullify the work requirements.
Oh, please! The Democrats are the biggest bunch of liars ever to befoul American politics! And it starts at the top.
lol
I like the way Democrats accuse other people of what they do.
So we are relying on “fact-check” websites to find out if the pResident removed the work requirement from welfare reform?
Why not just look at THE ORDER HE SIGNED
Soooo, Al Gore did NOT invent the internet?
In the words of Felix Unger...."don't toy with me, Oscar."
The “One-pound bag” speaks again.
I like the way Democrats accuse other people of what they do.
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Yep. Projection is their middle name.
Pure, unabashed projection from the most haughty, smug little prick in the universe.
F.O., short fry!
I’m thinking I would do my best to qualify recipients “work” at activities like journaling, bed rest, massage or motivational reading, especially the reading part. I’ve got such a stack of books on my nightstand.
Authorizing the STATES to REMOVE THE WORK REQUIREMENT, is not the same as Obama erasing it himself....doncha know....?
Do you have a link to the order?
And who are these 'trusted' arbiters? Are they infallible? Are they immune to human bias? Who 'chooses' the arbiters?
Its hard to see how Argumentum ad Verecundiam can be other than fallacious in the world of politics, where men of differing worldviews tend to draw divergent conclusions from the same data.
BWAHAHAHAHA, snort, pause, BWAHAHAHA!
The media?
Which media?
The one operating in the US of A?
Yes and I’ve heard the libs say this gives states more control and flexibility, and hey that’s what the conservatives love: state’s rights.
See how they twist it?
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