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Sep. 26, 2012 3:44pm Mytheos Holt

When the press reacted with frantic scientific outrage to a joke by GOP nominee Mitt Romney about rolling down windows on planes, the world got its first hint that the American mainstream press might have slept through courses on irony or sarcasm.

That now seems to be confirmed. Apparently, not only can the mainstream press not understand a joke when it comes from the GOP nominee, but it can’t even understand it when it comes from one of their own. This can be seen in the reaction to an obviously joking column by Politico’s Roger Simon, alleging some rather un-vice presidential behavior on the part of Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan:

Though Ryan had already decided to distance himself from the floundering Romney campaign, he now feels totally uninhibited. Reportedly, he has been marching around his campaign bus, saying things like, “If Stench calls, take a message” and “Tell Stench I’m having finger sandwiches with Peggy Noonan and will text him later.”

Never mind how much this sounds out of character for Ryan. Everyone from Paul Krugman to Steve Benen at MSNBC have lept into action, gleefully declaring this a sign that the Romney campaign is in disarray. Bloomberg has the excerpts:

Times columnist Paul Krugman:

Can I say that even though I’m not exactly a fan of Mitt Romney’s, this is just bad behavior? You’re supposed to wait until it’s actually over before you do this kind of thing. Anyway, I like how Ryan is declaring independence: by using PowerPoint!

Tommy Christopher of press-gossip site Mediaite:

Simon’s anecdote has the recognizable (to the Beltway crowd) ring of truth that renders it canonical in political circles … Simon’s anecdote demonstrates that the Romney campaign’s toxic press is in Ryan’s head. In this electoral game of chicken, Ryan is already unbuckling his seatbelt and visualizing his roll onto the shoulder.

Joe Gandelman of the Moderate Voice:

Have we ever heard of a winning Presidential ticket in American politics that had a Vice Presidential candidate have an attitude like this about his running mate? Talk about a total lack of deference (or respect).

Liberal radio personality Taylor Marsh:

Ryan is trying to save himself so he can live to run another day. Roger Simon’s piece has spread like wildfire and is causing a gigantic ripple.

Steve Benen at MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s blog:

In applied terms, Simon’s piece went on to note that Ryan no longer likes the directions “dictated by his Romney handlers.” It’s quite a presidential campaign, isn’t it?

David Ferguson of the Raw Story:

According to Simon’s anonymous sources, the Romney “brain trust” of senior campaign officials in Boston have taken to calling Ryan “Gilligan.” Campaign headquarters apparently feels that the man brought on to the ticket for his alleged deftness in navigating complicated snarls of budget and policy numbers is turning out to be an intellectual flyweight.

Unfortunately for them, it’s not only not true, but it is — again, obviously — a joke. It took a usually reliable fellow journalist Ben Smith to point this out via Twitter.

The joke itself isn’t particularly funny, so it’s easy to see how the mistake might be a bit understandable. However, this isn’t the first time Simon has written a satirical column poking fun at Ryan. Given the army of fact checkers and investigators employed by the mainstream press, one would expect this sort of joke to be caught, even if it wasn’t funny.

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BlackCrow
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:40pm
The ONLY reason NBC news comes on in my house is because the local weather guy is good.

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- KevINtampa
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:17pm
  The truth doesn’t matter, and that’s the whole idea. The narrative has already been widely spread, the mindless will simply accept the narrative as a truth, even though they never actually read the original piece being commentated on to know all of this “blow back” is based on planted satire. The original satire is lost, and the aura of the narrative will live on.
  
  Welcome to the propaganda. It’s how it works and most, sixty percent maybe, Americans are way too dumb to ever realize it even if it’s pointed out.
  
  At the end of the coming revolution this media is desperately trying to start, any of the sides that win will have the media tried for treason and hanged. Mark my words, they lose no matter who wins; and I will only feel bad for the few honest ones who tried to expose the corruption. Those that were involved in the lies, or were aware of the lies but did nothing, let them be tried in the courts (even if the communist/socialist left wins and the courts are a farce), and let them be hanged for treason.
  
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- igetit
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:17pm
  Obviously you are from Oklahoma. And, his wife is a Patriot!
  
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- db321
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:19pm
  Go ahead and put money in the Liberal News pockets. If you have Cable, the networks get Cable over night rating in segments of 15 minutes. 10 sec of viewing equals a 15 minute rating and huge adverting bucks in their pockets. Believe me their is nothing to see on Obama’s Lap Dog News.
  
  It’s OK to watch your local news, but change the channel after it has concluded. Just a heads up.
  
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- BigSky
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:21pm
  It’s the only time I watch the CBS station here, for the local weather, because the weather guy is really good.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:25pm
  Love to see an ad by the Romney/Ryan campaign about how clueless the media is. Obviously they’ll believe anything they want to believe and the cabal can fool them whenever he wants because they have NO discernment left.
  
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- Cmomiedian
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:45pm
  Are you sure the weather guy is telling you the truth?
  
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- theaton
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:45pm
  So you support evil because they have a good weather guy? Will wonders never cease?
  
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- Wayner
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:54pm
  MSM reporters, bloggers and ( I didn’t use the word “journalists) should begin every piece with “Like duhhhhhhhh”
  
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- abwehragent
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 6:04pm
  I have to agree. A couple of years ago we pulled the plug on satellite or cable, opting instead for SkyAngel where everything is safe (even the commercials). We go antenna to the local channels ONLY for the local news and weather reports. Why fill our heads and ears with garbage and falsehoods. If I don’t want my grand-kids’ heads messed up with it, why should I assault myself with it? We now watch a little FoxNews, but mostly do our own homework on world and national issues. It’s worth the time and effort.
  
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- jzs
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 6:10pm
  I wasn’t fooled. To me their entire campaign seems like satire.
  
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- dblaess
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 6:24pm
  @jzs
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 6:10pm
  I wasn’t fooled. To me their entire campaign seems like satire
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  You must not be a member of the MSM. They have a narrative in place to support the DNC/Obama and do not care about facts, only what they can twist to match the narrative (See Brian Ross – Tea Party). It would seem you also have a narrative in place, most likely because you are paid to post these posts. This would explain why you are not willing to use your name. Are you with MM or just paid directly by George?
  
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- PuppyKisses
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 6:45pm
  The ghetto tactics, story spins from the Lamestream media and the outright lies really turn my stomach!! Fox is the only respectable crew out there.
  
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- HI_Don
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 7:01pm
  The only reason any of the MSM appear in my house is because they are strategically positioned in between Fox and the Discovery Channel and I use the up arrow on the channel select instead of punching in the numbers directly … but I still take the precaution of closing my eyes.
  Actually I see more of the MSM news coverage by watching Fox point out how bad they are than anytime else. If it wasn’t for conservatives mocking their coverage, I don’t think anybody would see anything they do.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 7:07pm
  @jzs
  “I wasn’t fooled. To me their entire campaign seems like satire.”
  
  That’s not what you said in your other post about Romney’s “window” comment. LOL @ U
  
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- forthepeople
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 7:52pm
  I’m with KevinTampa , we will have to clean up after the revolution, set an example of what happens to treason com-miters . A good blood bath is needed every 100 years for humans get far to carried away with themselves at least the self-serving ones !@ Just look a history ?
  
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- vonstro
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:14pm
  Ditto in my house as well. Anyone who bothers watching network news programs isn’t really interested in news. They only want to listen to someone who shares their own vacant ideology.
  
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- jzs
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:19pm
  dblaess says, “It would seem you also have a narrative in place, most likely because you are paid to post these posts. This would explain why you are not willing to use your name. Are you with MM or just paid directly by George?” Yes, dblaess, I make a fair income from posting here, not only from George, but also from Van Jones and Piven. I get a nickle a word from both of them (excluding definite and indefinite articles) and I promise you, it adds up. But the real money comes from generating traffic, something contractually I’m not allowed to discuss.
  
  So being paid for my posts explains why I don’t use my real name here? Is dblaess your real name? So you are getting paid too? I don’t recall ever seeing someone’s real name here. So they’re all getting paid? I’m not sure about your logic there dblaess, if that that is actually your real name.
  
  Monk, the “window comment” you mention doesn’t ring a bell, sorry. But I concede your point, whatever it is. I’m actually all in favor of windows, and think every house should have one or more.
  
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- darkknight91
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:24pm
  Stupid liberals are stupid.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:05pm
  Bottom line. MSM reports jokes as gaffes and unfortunately 47% of Americans believe the MSM.
  
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- johnjamison
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:41am
  The same media that wouldn’t run the Obama redistribution of wealth audio until they verified the source….THAT MEDIA
  
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cranberry
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:40pm
We should not be playing right into the lib’s hands, they are eating this up because they recognize that part of us that is all them! We need to stop acting like they do, not give them anything to go off of. The less they have to ridicule and twist, the better.

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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:19pm
  That won’t work because the Left Wing Propaganda Machine would be able to find a fart as being the voice of a mute man. (apologies to the mute).
  
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- All_Out_of_Bubblegum
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 7:25pm
  We really do not need this idiocy from Romney/Ryan. Sure, we can see they are joking and we can see that the liberal media could care less if they are or are not…they just want ammo to fire at them.
  
  But when you look at the “voters” interviewed for teh Howard Stern show, it clearly shows that a good chunk of people don’t have the brain cells to see a joke or to see the conspiracy.
  
  Let’s be honest. It is not just the black twits voting for Obama that were featured in the interview, who are idiots. We have a heck of a lot on our side as well. You have democrats voting for Obama because he is black, and we have republicans voting AGAINST him for the same reason…with absoultely no clue what the issues are, what Romney’s platform is…nothing.
  
  Tell “our” twosome to stay focused and stick to the topics at hand.
  
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Verceofreason
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:33pm
The only joke is the Romney/Ryan campaign.

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- rp454
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:53pm
  Idiot. Why don’t you go order something off the obama website and let the adults talk in peace. Your drive by trolling is becoming tiresome.
  
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- PoliticallyRightUs.Com
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:16pm
  Let see you say that when we are in World War 3 because Obama has shown America is week and ready to be taken over!!!
  There are 2 kinds of people:
  People who fight for America and our freedom and the people who take from America and hand our country over to the other nations of the world because we are to big for our own good… Which one are you???
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 6:00pm
  That’s the way PERCYVERCY..stamp and pout….
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 8:18pm
  Adults?
  That Allen West is a patriot.
  The Gohmert tells it like it is.
  I don’t even know what that means.
  Romney just told 50 million Americans with out healthcare ‘ “tough Luck, don’t expect help from me”
  (not in those exact words, of course)
  
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ReaganBaby
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:28pm
Is the “mainstream media” really mainstream anymore?

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- ComeNovember2012
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:39pm
  Uh…no
  
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- Joel Knows
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:14pm
  Yeah, the mainstream media is still out in the mainstream…way over their heads in deep water!
  
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thegodfather
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:26pm
This is GREAT. I think that Ryan should refer to Mitt’s new nickname as…..”Barrack Obama is an ignorant assh##e” ….and let’s see if they report that.

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- TheLeftMadeMeRight
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:32pm
  It should be leaked that Ryan is upset and contemplating a move to the Demoncratic Party. Then they would start singing his praises!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 6:14pm
  I’d like to see Ryan and Romney “leak” a comment that the media is working with them to get Obama out of office…it would be like a scene from the movie “Scanners”…all their liberal elitist heads would explode simultaneously in their rush to deny it….There’d be a stampede to be the first publication or network to deny it. It would be like a clown car at the circus…they’d be pouring out of every crevice to deny it.
  
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- kangaroo
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 7:13pm
  Avengerk
  
  Like it. The jokers R+R (mean that literally) should punk the punks everyday I reckon
  
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Exidor
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:23pm
Even some of my co-workers, who are staunch liberals, have admitted that the MSM is so biased that it’s insulting. Its always been an issue, of course, but I just can’t recall the moment it became just so blatant. I mean flat out lies. And the American public is just eating it up.

Scary…..

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EdgeOfSanity
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:22pm
It figures though . . . when Biden actually does say stupid stuff they report it as just Joe being Joe.

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- TheLeftMadeMeRight
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:31pm
  President Joe Biden Yea, think on that one a minute…
  
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- Lordcsmith
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:38pm
  Joe as Vice President is why Obama doesn’t have to bob and weave while giving a speech.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:21pm
This shows the length that the MSM will go to hoping to ensure the reelection of their god-king; they are running scared and grasping at anything they can fabricate for use against Romney and Ryan. It is one more reason America has lost trust in them, and thus they know when Obama falls this Nov, they will fall in turn.

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- godlovinmom
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:28pm
  I’m very surprised that they haven’t fallen already…jeez who listens to these people????
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:19pm
If you think that’s funny, this takes the cake. The left is SO terrified that they’ve
got Al Gore himself coming out of hibernation along with a gaggle of slobber toys.

Al Gore to lead TV debate coverage
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/258815-al-gore-to-lead-tv-networks-presidential-debate-coverage

“Gore will lead a roundtable featuring other Current TV hosts, including former Michigan
Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D), Cenk Uygur and John
Fugelsang, according to a statement from the network.”

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- razhunter100
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 7:32pm
  dam funny, thanks
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:17pm
When I was growing up, journalists and newsmen used to be intelligent, or was that just my perception? It seems they get dumber every year.

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- godlovinmom
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:29pm
  When I was growing up, Walter Kronkite was king of the news…and we see how that turned out…the major networks have ALWAYS been biased.
  
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- EdgeOfSanity
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:31pm
  They used to report who, what, when, where, why and who and left the reader (listener) to draw their own opinions. I studied journalism for a while and the professor (many years and less opinions ago) would circle words in red and say “prejudicial” or “slanted” or such and it would be re-written. Guess they don’t teach journalism any more, or at least nobody in MSM has a degree in it.
  
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HKS
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:15pm
I am personally flabbergasted at the American people. The liberals have them ******* and moaning about what Mitt Romney is doing with his money while those same liberals are ******* away billions and billions of tax payer money on remodeling Muslim mosques and the like. That’s not to speak of the billions wasted on fan-tum stimulus plans that lined a lot of union pockets. Yes, that liberal media is doing a real job on the American people and I guess they really are that dumb.

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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:25pm
  Libs control the Dep of Ed, this result is EXACTLY what they want.
  
  A nation of ignorant morons that feel a whole bunch about a lot of things.
  
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- Bigliardi
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:25pm
  These little libturds are salivating at the mere thought of the “wheels coming off” the Romney campaign..They are droid-like in their reaction to a bit of satire coming out of the campaign….Just reinforces the notion that libturds have neither an imagination nor a sense of humor…They are sad, and humorless people…
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:37pm
  These idiots will jump on made up news but refuse to write about the Obama Adminstration laying us over a barrel and banging away. My Dr. at age 55 retired and my new Dr. takes 2 months to get into see. I use my Medicare and my Union insurence to to go into Emergency One that refuses freeloaders and the most I’v had to wait was a 1/2 Hr. Of course if I need surgery it’s to the hospital and a long wait.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 8:20pm
  Remodeling mosques? what city and state?
  
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Just_Us2
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:12pm
The MSM are willful idiots. Next thing ya know they will be pulling stories from The Onion. They have set up an echo chamber of baffonary and they believe their own lies. Their personal lives are in shambles, they have no personal integrity, they so badly want to be valid and make a difference, to be relevant….but recent articles show viewership down, readership down and trust at an all time low. They have a niche market that appeals to sexual deviants, drug addicts, welfare cheats and social misfits. They are one with the dimocrats and Obama. They revel in their own dung and believe America will be fair when everyone is as ignorant, poor and lazy as they are.

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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:45pm
  Perfectly stated. Clear and concise. I agree.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:02pm
  Well stated. I couldn’t have said it better, or more accurately, myself. I long for some way in which the leftists in media would be brought to justice for their high crimes of treason. Not necessarily executed, but publicly humiliated and ostracized so that even their leftist comrades would offer them no credibility ever again. It’s nice to dream.
  
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- Tractorboy
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 8:02pm
  Well said Just us2, Just a thought, at one time it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write, because if slaves were taught to read and write they would no longer obey their masters and would become worthless, not even good for resale, nobody would want a hard to manage difficult slave, with that being said, why does the media want to keep the slaves ignorant? I find nothing they put out to be educational or informative, might we slaves no longer obey and become worthless to them?
  
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Landon410
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:09pm
why would a liberal fact check anything? its not part of their nature, lie, and lie, then lie some more, no need for facts

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Cavallo
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:07pm
They’re not journalists! Stop referring to them as such. It is like referring to Jeffery Dahmer as a professional chef.

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- EdgeOfSanity
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:15pm
  Good parallel! They are so wrapped up in the whole PC thing I doubt if any of them even tell/hear jokes much less appreciate satire or a pun.
  
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Publius Duo
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:06pm
The lib medias hundreds of fact checkers must have taken the day off. Heck, they’ve taken the whole campaign off. Or, were there really any in the first place? I think not.

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AvengerK
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:01pm
I actually want the enemedia to keep this up. The more the they do it, the more in the tank for Obama they appear and this hurts them in two ways…less viewers/readers, less support for the empty chair.

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Prochef
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:00pm
I say the press did know, but run with any story that helps there side. The people they are preaching to, listen, believe and are not reading the retraction or the story here on the blaze, therefore it is true. Like much of what the administration is doing, just put it out there, true or not, just keep saying it. Climate change ..a good president?….etc.

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- FREEDOMoverFEAR
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:14pm
  Exactly they knew this wasn’t true and they knew Romney was joking about the plane’s windows. They also know millions of Americans now believe these things to be true. This is why our founding fathers restricted voters to be land owners. They knew then, just as now, that most American’s are stupid.
  
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Publius Duo
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:00pm
A wonderful experiment into Pavlovian theory. Ring the negative story on Romney bell, and watch the lamestream media drool all over themselves. What a bunch of idiots. Useful idiots. Now where have I heard that before?

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CatB
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:59pm
They will do whatever it takes to promote Obama and make Romney and Ryan look not only bad but stupid. MSM is dead … .. you can’t believe anything they say .. even the weather is biased … want to know the weather .. go outside.

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HKS
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:57pm
The media has not facts, only fiction.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:38pm
  The biased-ness must be blinding and deafening.
  
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John 3:16
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:56pm
The losers, mainstream media, is having a hard time losing even with all their power, they are losing because Americans are smarter then they are. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear, but they will try.

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Publius Duo
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:56pm
Shows how credible the lamestream media really is, huh?

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- Just_Us2
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:14pm
  Right, these same people are running around screaming the election is over…Obama is king.
  
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SingerGuy
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:54pm
When it comes to conservatives the media has zero sense of humor. I think they’ve proved that over and over.

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godlovinmom
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:53pm
These people don’t have ONE brain cell between them.

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Truth and Justice
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:53pm
The media in America are like Lemmings being lead to the edge of a cliff!!

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