If you were watching Rachel Maddow Wednesday night she did a piece on publicizing vs reporting using the proposed meeting between the GOP leaders and President Obama as the illustrating point. Politico had posted a story about the previous meeting between President Obama and the House GOP. Politico had published a story based on unnamed sources as to why the GOP had decided not to meet with the President. Then she demonstrated the basis of the reason the unnamed source for the story Politico posted was false. And when called out on their half-assed story they compounded their blunder by only removing the part of the statement that was demonstrably false.
The GOP has become very good at making statements based on "Some people say", "it's been said", "I read somewhere that...". One of their favorite's is "The American people... say, think, deserve, want etc. Never sourcing their statement and the Main Scream Media scribes just write it down and never bother to check the sourcing of the claim or bother asking the speaker what's the basis of their claim.
OK, The TRMS embed was supposed to be here but it won't publish.
For demonstrative purposes, let's engage in a few statements based on "some people say... etc. (When I was first thinking about this last night I was going to do just negative, but this morning decided to turn it around and have the GOPpers saying positive things about President Obama and his policies.)
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It's been reported that Sen. Mitch McConnell agrees with President Obama's decision on letting the tax break for incomes over $250,000 expire.
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I read somewhere that Congressman Eric Cantor admits that extending the tax breaks for incomes over $250K is irresponsible.
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Some people say that Congressman Boehner admitted that single-payer health care is the best option for American people.
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I read somewhere that Sen. John Kyl admits that the START is in the best interest of the US but not the GOP. (ok, I couldn't help it on this one)
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It's been reported that Sen. John McCain said that the American people derserve to have DADT repealed.
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These are just some teasers, be sure to add some of your own below. Yow don't have to keep them all positive but having the GOPper's saying positive things about the President's agenda is more fun than piling on the rubbish they deserve. Because who knows, someone may pick it up in a google search and spread it around for us.
On with the games!!
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