"This photo is from a staged "Town hall meeting" event in April 2006, given as they always were in those days with an audience screened for loyalty to the administration."
Journalisticly, here (if that's a word) the problem is that there is an unstated assumption, based on deliberate choice of words, that this situation is no longer in effect. The reader is led to think that only the previous administration did such a thing when in fact all of them do so and the current one excels at it.
Or, in other words, this is what is referred to as lying by omission, something that the New York Times, Newsweek, and MS/NBC all perform on a regular basis and with great enthusiasm.
But I digress.
Do you honestly think that people on the left are uniformly polite and civil in these public events, and those on the right are not? It's not true, you know... some are, some are not. But I will guaran-damn-tee you no one on the right would have shown up at a Hillary Clinton rally wearing something like this (something, in reference to the earlier
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"This photo is from a staged "Town hall meeting" event in April 2006, given as they always were in those days with an audience screened for loyalty to the administration."
Journalisticly, here (if that's a word) the problem is that there is an unstated assumption, based on deliberate choice of words, that this situation is no longer in effect. The reader is led to think that only the previous administration did such a thing when in fact all of them do so and the current one excels at it.
Or, in other words, this is what is referred to as lying by omission, something that the New York Times, Newsweek, and MS/NBC all perform on a regular basis and with great enthusiasm.
But I digress.
Do you honestly think that people on the left are uniformly polite and civil in these public events, and those on the right are not? It's not true, you know... some are, some are not. But I will guaran-damn-tee you no one on the right would have shown up at a Hillary Clinton rally wearing something like this (something, in reference to the earlier ( ... )
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