I do not diary often, so please let me know if this violates fair use, but I couldn't help but express my continued outrage at the current state of our media. Since Paul Ryan got caught in so many verifiable lies, I knew the media would work extra hard to be "impartial" by parsing anything said at the DNC if nothing was as overt as Ryan. But this takes the cake.
Found this on the front page of Yahoo, linked from ABC. Steelworker featured at DNC didn't work for Bain
http://news.yahoo.com/...
The premise of this article, and the reason for the front page status, would have to make you think wow, the guy didn't work for Bain and was up there making stuff up. And Karl would like you to believe that too.
But it turns out one of those employees never actually worked for a company controlled by Bain Capital. David Foster was supposedly one of those former employees on the convention schedule.
Ouch, that is sinister. I'm all for not going up on stage on National TV and claiming you're something you're not, and if I'm going to fault Paul Ryan for it, I have to be consistent. But wait.
"David Foster was never an employee of GST Steel's Kansas City plant. He was employed by the United Steelworkers of America as their regional union director to represent GST Steel, but was not employed at our facility," according to BC Huselton
Oh, this is more interesting. Let's look at the speech itself, which at least the hack Karl placed in the article.
I also led the steelworkers in the upper Midwest, including GST Steel in Kansas City, a 100-year old company bought by Mitt Romney and his partners at Bain Capital in 1993.
Weird, looking through the whole speech, not once did he claim to work at that one facility. I would think this sentence here would be clear to any thinking person that he was leading multiple steelworkers groups, that's usually what "including" would indicate to those not privy to the English language used by our political media. The story goes on to let us know that this story was generated by Huselton's interview (of course it doesn't say that, but it's pretty obvious again to those who can connect the dots), a campaign surrogate to Romney. It was a short speech and article, but it's very telling how our MSM is playing this election. And somehow this is front page news on Yahoo for hours with the headline it has, leaving the impression that a bunch of falsehoods will be contained. Of course, the author Karl can not point out one falsehood in this private citizens speech, but of course, does that matter when you can leave the impression there was? So we're not just going to be outspent, we're also going to have to deal with this type of journalism, where a baldface lie machine like Ryan, who is running for office, is being put on par with a private citizen convention speaker who did not tell one falsehood but they want you to think he misled you. Makes it easier to make all attacks on Bain seem "suspect".