{"id":30046,"date":"2012-08-31T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/yeah-its-going-to-be-one-of-those-elections.html"},"modified":"2012-08-31T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T15:50:49","slug":"yeah-its-going-to-be-one-of-those-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/yeah-its-going-to-be-one-of-those-elections.html","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, it&#39;s going to be one of THOSE elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The advantage to the GOP from\u00a0setting up a parallel world of &quot;news information&quot;, is you can give a speech saying whatever you think will motivate said\u00a0base, and the base will never hear about the parts that are\u00a0wrong,\u00a0exaggerated, cherry-picked, or intentionally\u00a0deceptive &#8212; and, then next thing you know, said statements are taken as axiomatic points that can just be mentioned by reference in Internet comments.<\/p>\n<p>Romney has been taking advantage of this all through the campaign so far, called out over and over again for simply saying stuff that isn&#39;t true. It hasn&#39;t slowed him down any.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2FScreen-shot-2012-08-30-at-8.53.31-AM.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romney-facts-matter\/'>FACTS MATTER: The Ultimate Guide To Mitt Romney\u2019s Convention Speech<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPoliticians from both parties twist facts or spin policy, but Mitt Romney\u2019s presidential campaign has had a particularly strained relationship with the truth, repeating false claims with impunity \u2014 ev&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/HGJ3TzgHuv3' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advantage to the GOP from\u00a0setting up a parallel world of &quot;news information&quot;, is you can give a speech saying whatever you think will motivate said\u00a0base, and the base will never hear about the parts that are\u00a0wrong,\u00a0exaggerated, cherry-picked, or intentionally\u00a0deceptive &#8212; and, then next thing you know, said statements are taken as axiomatic points that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/yeah-its-going-to-be-one-of-those-elections.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yeah, it&#39;s going to be one of THOSE elections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3220,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/10\/and_half_a_step.html","url_meta":{"origin":30046,"position":0},"title":"And half a step back","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Jan-03 4:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In the battle between 2.4GHz 802.11b (\"Wi-Fi\") wireless communication and 2.4GHz spread-spectrum digital phones, the phones win hands down. \"Win,\" as in, \"Trash the signal of the other.\" (Yes, I've...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133323,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/23\/on-the-mcdonalds-uniforms.html","url_meta":{"origin":30046,"position":1},"title":"On the McDonald&#039;s uniforms","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Apr-17 11:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"McDonald's is revamping their outfits to something more neutral and (by design intent, at least) less garishly fast-food. 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