| The song remains the same. When left-wing Mother Jones published video this week of Mitt Romney gaffing his way through an analysis of who pays taxes, the Detroit Free Press & MSM brethren made it the headline of the week. So if the right-wing press uncovered an equally controversial video of Barack Obama would the same MSM gave it equal treatment yes?We already know the answer is NO. This is the second great outrage of the week to Henry Payne, curator of Henry Payne's Museum for Half-Formed Thoughts. The first was that the vile "MSM" paid attention to the video in the first place since according to him it was merely a gaffe. Then, Willard doubled down. Now this. He's probably got a point, since there is a great deal of historical precedent to expect Ye Olde Emm Ess Emm to grab onto the second video and fall into the time-honored "Both sides are guilty" schtick. That didn't happen this time, leaving Henry Payne to howl "BIAS!" while normal persons scratch their noodles in confusion. Unlike Henry Payne, we weren't gifted with the ability to intuit motives merely by way of what is omitted from news articles, so we're left to puzzle about this curious development, too. An explanation, however, could come in the form of a simple explanation, like that the anti-Obama video in question was, in fact, doctored so that he appeared to say things he didn't. Amid complaints on the right about missing context in the leaked video of a Mitt Romney fundraiser, the RNC released a new video containing three deceptively edited clips of President Obama. That didn't stop Magic Frank, late to the game, from declaring the doctored video to be truth and that the views espoused in the fakes are true to life. What's more, he appears to believe that the nation's greatest growth in prosperity came when the highest income earners weren't taxed at all. How he came to this curious conclusion is really anyone's guess, although the safe money says not to think too deeply on it because in all likelihood he just pulled it out of his ass. I suppose it ought to be mentioned that Henry Payne's Museum for Half-Formed Thoughts is the growing outlet for rightwing commentary and "thought" in the state. |
