John Nolte
Breitbart.com
Big Journalism
2 Aug 2012
Other than answering a question about the Olympics honestly but less diplomatically than he might have, Mitt Romney’s overseas trip was a pretty big win. But the corrupt media knows that, in order for their failed president to win a second term, his opponent must be toxified into someone who is not an acceptable alternative. This is why Obama’s Media Palace Guards blew up the Olympic issue and then, for the rest of the trip, manufactured gaffes out of whole cloth.
Over at The Daily Beast, Howard Kurtz’s job is to analyze the media, but like a referee on the take, he simply puts the uniform on as a disguise to cover for his appallingly corrupt pals. Even Howie — as he’s affectionately known to those he’s supposed to police — couldn’t cover for the Associated Press, though, and the outrageous behavior they exhibited in manufacturing a gaffe that was intended to trip up Romney’s trip and make him look racist.
To help water down the AP’s sins, Kurtz spends a few torturous paragraphs attempting to over-explain something that is really quite simple. Bottom line, one AP reporter took Romney’s remarks comparing Israeli and Palestinian culture out of context (not to mention this context), and then another AP reporter presented those out-of-context remarks — which made them sound more provocative than they were — to a top aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. This aide then declared the comments “racist,” and a phony gaffe-tastic controversy was born that the rest of the media was more than happy to run with…
The article continues at Big Journalism.
Related: Warning to Romney: Obama Is Using Karl Rove’s Playbook
…One doesn’t have to be a political professional to see the similarities with today’s campaign. It goes a long was to explaining why Obama and the media are obsessed with sparking a new “cultural war” around social issues like contraception and same-sex marriage. The left’s ongoing obsession with Voter ID laws is designed purely to boost minority turnout. Same with Obama’s directive on a very modified DREAM Act. Its the Karl Rove playbook to fire up one’s voting base…
Also, BuzzFeed Politics Exposes Washington Post’s Coordination With Obama Campaign
Update: Andrea Mitchell defends Palestinian outrage, gets schooled by Romney foreign policy advisor
