roachboy

what are you talking about?
the story served an obvious and particular purpose: it functioned as a gesture of solidarity on the part of cowboy george with the evangelical base that was alienated by the meier nomination.
when the damage from it got too intense, the denial was dutifully issued.
and there we are: nothing to it from the beginning but reproduced in the press for an appropriate amount of time, then denied: classic karl rove.
we are in the second term of this foul administration and you still havent figured out how the media strategy works?
where have you been?
under some rock?
or worse----a conservative who actually believes this nonsense?
you act as though veracity was an issue with reference to the press: maybe at one point you could have counted on the papers, tv etc to indulge the luxury of independent fact verification--but now, this rarely happens--too expensive, you see---so instead, you have media outlets reproducing what various institutional outlets--the federal govt first of all--- tell them and checking later. if at all. if you could rely on independent fact checking in the press itself, you would not have anything lilke a second bush term, you would not have anything like a karlrove pattern of manipulating the press.

fit this in particular with the general conservative strategy of the past decade or so to deal with critique by undermining the quality of information (check for yourself, the documentation is abundant and easily available to anyone who looks--think about the corporate strategy of hiring pet "scientists" to produce experimental results favroable to corporate interests and go from there) and the function of a story like this should be clear.

the issue is not that the press was chumped.
if you did not see an obvious tactical function to this story from the outset, the chump is you.

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