May 20, 2012

SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "Faux-raging for a story"

Kathleen Parker:
"....The leaking of the document and the prominent display of the story have been a boon to Obama. They provided yet another welcome distraction, as well as a helpful fundraising tool, and smeared Romney by association.

The power (and hubris) of individual political donors and their offspring — the ads they want to sire — may become the tragedy of this election season. Romney is nothing like a racist, yet suddenly he is forced to distance himself from ads about which he knew nothing. And we now can agree that resurrecting Wright for any purpose would do more political harm than good.

Ricketts apparently would agree. He has distanced himself from the proposal faster than Obama distanced himself from Wright. And poor Mitt Romney had to repudiate an ad campaign that never was, that probably never would have been, and over which he had zero control.

And thus ends another faux controversy about non-ads in the very strange universe known as American Politics...."  (Read more?  Click title)

"Unapologetic pursuit and tracking of patterns within the news others make since 2010."

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