CONTEXT? CONTEXT!!?? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' CONTEXT!
It's never been easier to twist, distort, cut, paste, colorize, misrepresent, manipulate and spin. Once, this was known as lying. Today, it's the way the Dark Side plays the game: SOP for the GOP.
Rick Perry runs an ad in which Obama says "America has gotten a bit lazy." But Obama isn't talking about you and me, he's talking about American business not strongly promoting its global trade capabilities.
Mitt Romney airs a spot with Obama talking about the need to avoid discussing the economy during the campaign. Except Obama is quoting John McCain from 2008.
Neither Perry nor Romney sees anything wrong with this. They have not apologized and they haven't pulled their ads. And they won't.
And below we have a doozy from Karl Rove, the king of sleazy misinformation. His Crossroads GPS.org has been carpet-bombing me for weeks with this piece of shit:
Once you get past Clinton-out-of-context, the fake news anchor, and the amateurish editing which makes Obama repeatedly say, "taxes", what the Rovians would have us believe is that the President's proposed American Jobs Act is "a political stunt -- a $447 billion bill full of tax increases." That's some stunt! And some lie!
In truth, it would be a package of tax cuts ($240 billion from continuing the 2 point cut in Social Security payroll tax) and $207 billion in federal spending, most of it on infrastructure improvements. Almost all of the bill ($400 billion) would be funded by new limits on itemized deductions for high-income earners ($250 K+ per year). The rest is funded by reducing subsidies and deductions for oil and gas companies, hedge funds, and corporate jets.
Only in the GOP's official Grover Norquist one-page dictionary is any of this defined as a tax "increase".
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