SPECIAL REPORT!

Very rarely do I post more than once a day [sometimes once a week!] But as I sit here watching the news- some news shows [absent Fox] are going ballistic.

Why?

A story has hit the air that some conservative Pac [political action committee] is going to run a ‘negative campaign’ [could this be?] associating the president with Rev. Wright- his former pastor.

Now- whether a person agrees with this or not- both sides do it- and will continue to do so.

The description by the media is ‘a billion dollar campaign to bring the president down’.

I have never heard any other negative campaign described like this.

It has been reported that the Obama campaign plans on spending millions to attack Romney’s character.

Yet- the media simply describes it as ‘there you go- that’s modern politics’.

2^nd- there is another story that has hit the air today- it is a TRUE story about a past literary agent for the president.

This agency- with the president’s obvious approval [knowledge] listed the president as being born in Kenya.

Now- some media people are ready to explode.

Why?

They are not reporting that the story is actually true- not that he was born in Kenya [I don’t think so personally] But that he had his own lit. agent represent him this way.

For various reasons- in the past the president has used ways to define himself as having an international persona.

He himself has used this characterization.

So- how do we explain his own agent speaking [actually putting it in a promotional book] about him being born in Kenya?

I don’t know.

But the story is not fake- the book actually exists [until they burn the last copy].

But instead of the media reporting that the story is true- that this literary agent represented the president this way [in 1991].

No- they are making it sound like the story is fake- and that anyone who believes it is a birther.

Even the conservative sites that broke the story DO NOT BELIEVE HE WAS BORN IN KENYA- they say so in the coverage.

They simply are reporting the factual part of the story- that an agent for Obama represented him as being born in Kenya.

A while back I had a conversation with a friend- this friend is a liberal.

I informed the person that one of the media Fables was that Sarah Palin said ‘you can see Russia from my house’.

In actuality she never did say this.

She said ‘you can see portions of Russia from some spots in Alaska’.

Tina Fey [SNL] made the other quote famous.

After not being able to convince my friend of the truth- I then realized that either way this person still thought Palin was an idiot.

Why?

Because ‘who thinks you can see Russia from Alaska!’

Actually- you can see Russia from Alaska- for real!

But on most maps- they show the Western half right up until Alaska- and the Eastern half ends at Russia.

So- any thinking person would think ‘gee- I guess if you put the 2 ends together [called a globe?] you might have Alaska and Russia side by side’.

Yes- and this is why Alaskans find it necessary to often inform people that you can indeed see Russia from Alaska.

But the media [and my friend] were laughing so hard- they never heard the message.

[The purpose of this post is not to condone negative campaigning- or to engage in Birtherism- But to simply show you how we respond to things differently.

Instead of the media going ballistic ‘how dare anyone say the president was born in Kenya’.

They could simply report that a past agent for Obama described him this way- and they can say the agent was obviously mistaken.

But instead- many people- good people- will never know the truth about the story.

They will go on for years with the mindset ‘wow- can you believe some people think you can see Russia from Alaska?’]

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