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The Washington Post Bullies Romney

Right Makes Might Wrote: May 16, 2012 9:13 AM

If I didn’t know better, I’d think someone was trying to sabotage the Obamunists with this story. The aftermath of the publication of the story has been a catastrophe for Obama: the Romney classmates who participated in the smear are quickly exposed as Democrap operatives, or at least unfriendlies to Republicans, then Lauber’s family hastily decries the story as so much bull$#!t. They lit the exploding cigar again, just as they did with their war on stay-at-home moms. If Obama keeps getting this kind of help from friends like Jason Horowitz, he may find himself on the poopy end of a landslide come November.

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arpiem Wrote: May 16, 2012 10:34 AM

I sure hope so.

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The Washington Post Bullies Romney

When it comes to opposition research, there is often only one difference between a candidate's vicious negative ad and an "investigative" news report: the undeserved patina of media "objectivity" and respectability.

Take the Washington Post's Jason Horowitz's 5,400-word "expose" on how Mitt Romney may have pinned a boy down and cut his hair in 1965. 1965? That's almost a half century ago. Even if every detail were accurate -- and they weren't -- a journalist could pull a muscle in the hyper-aggressive attempt to make it somehow relevant to the present moment or even the recent past.

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