Ain't it the truth?!

 

Manufacturing gaffes is a lot easier than manufacturing jobs which is why the media has switched from fake optimism about the economy to fake pessimism about Romney's competence. While it takes a lot of work to open a factory that manufactures shoes or microprocessors, manufacturing a gaffe factory is very easy.

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Modern journalism is indistinguishable from public relations. PR people do not investigate or report, they come up with a narrative, break it down into talking points and then sell it down by the docks. Their narrative is "Our company is great and the other company is bad". When their company does something wrong, then it's, "Our company really isn't responsible for this" and "The other company is much worse than we are."

When it comes to politics all you really hear from the media anymore is the same lazy spin you can find on corporate press releases. Read the press releases from a squabble between two companies, switch out the names of the companies to, "Obama" and "Romney" and imagine that Obama Inc. owns the media. Now you know everything you need to know about politics.

 

Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish:

Manufacturing Gaffes.

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

There's one thing, apparently, that's even easier than manufacturing gaffes: manufacturing flagrant, outright lies. It's so easy, in fact, that even someone who isn't in the media can do it -- someone, say, like the eminent Majority Leader of the United States Senate, the Honorable Harry Reid, who has created, overnight, a massive factory dedicated to producing a single lie: that Mitt Romney evaded payment of his federal income taxes for 10 long years. The august Senator -- who has a distribution system that would put even UPS to shame -- has manufactured a lie that's already, in just a few hours, spanned the globe, and gone -- as the cyberfreaks like to say -- viral. But maybe I'm being harsh in implying that Senator Reid is a liar. An anonymous wag once defined "liar" as "one who tells a story about something that never happened -- hence, a poet." So let's give the Senator the benefit of the doubt and say he's not a liar -- just a poet. A dirty, rotten, no-good poet.

[Tom Glennon]

In criminal law, the burden of proof is on the accuser. The individual accused does not need to prove their innocence. Rather, the accuser must provide evidence that shows beyond a reasonable doubt that the malfeasance occurred, and the accused is the perpetrator. I find it frightening that a United States Senator, sworn to uphold the Constitution, can reverse the entire basis of law by making an accusation that a private citizen has violated a law, and then demanding that the person prove their innocence. We are, indeed, living in a post-Constitutional era.