Well, this stinks.
You’re not going to like this much (or maybe you will), but here’s what Politico is pushing:
Paul Ryan has gone rogue. He is unleashed, unchained, off the hook.
“I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he’ll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him,” Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa, told The New York Times on Sunday…
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.”
Even before the stench article appeared, there was a strong sign that Ryan was freeing himself from the grips of the Romney campaign. It began after his disastrous appearance on Friday before AARP in New Orleans. Ryan delivered his remarks in the style dictated by his Romney handlers: Stand behind the lectern, read the speech as written and don’t stray from the script.
If true, can’t say I’m terribly surprised. Ryan’s a fighter. Mitt… not so much. On the other hand, Ryan could simply be making a joke at the Times‘s expense — after all, it’s not like the media has a sense of humor or anything.
I mind a few other elections in which the alleged news media manufactured a bunch of stories about crippling dissension in Republican ranks… later revealed to have been total fabrications.
This seems to be the real, demonstrable, and enduring skillset of the so-called “Mainstream Media” – that is, inventing stories out of thin air, distorting and mis-characterizing minute factoids to gigantic proportions in order to support the narrative they’ve been instructed to promote.
You can see how the people at the top of these organizations can be seduced by direct cash disbursements from Arab Islamic Oil interests. More incomprehensible is the more subtle recruitment and iron indoctrination of the troops… that is, the “beat” reporters, news readers, camera crews, floor directors, advertising managers, and so on.
Delusional sheep.
“If true…”
Kidding, right? That’s exactly the purpose of evil Leftist agitprop – it’s designed to make you question. Palin “went rogue” too, (yeah, right, too bad she didn’t) and now the same tired out meme (which apparently works on the weak-minded) is trotted out again…
Don’t hedge yourself. Be out there. Push back, don’t swallow some of the poison and then write about how it tastes…
– sourcing as usual, Roger Simon of Politico.
The press lies. That’s all you need to remember. They lie, with glee and not even an iota of guilt.
You can rest easy. This was a weak attempt at humor by Politico. They should stick to their day jobs of sucking up to Obama.
As Ben Smith of Buzzfeed, a former Politico blogger, tweeted: “So uh a lot of people seem not to have picked up that @politicoroger’s column was satire.” Put more succinctly by conservative blogger JammieWearingFool: “Satire should actually be funny.”
Or, at least it should be pretty obvious. There is no underestimating the literal-mindedness of the American reader: Years ago when I worked at the Times we published a satirical op-ed column by Steve Martin riffing on the idea that a NASA Mars probe had discovered millions of kittens on the Red Planet. Shortly thereafter, a subscriber sent a terse letter to the editor asking us to “inform your science correspondent” that the lack of oxygen on Mars made kitten infestation highly unlikely.
The part on page 2 about PowerPoint was the closest thing to being funny in the article:
A word about PowerPoint. PowerPoint was released by Microsoft in 1990 as a way to euthanize cattle using a method less cruel than hitting them over the head with iron mallets. After PETA successfully argued in court that PowerPoint actually was more cruel than iron mallets, the program was adopted by corporations for slide show presentations.
Paul Ryan doesn’t talk like that. This is pretty transparently bogus.
Worse, however, are the lefties who pounced on it, thinking it was real. Including the ridiculous Paul Krugman.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-26/politico-s-paul-ryan-satire-the-joke-s-on-them.html