{"id":30536,"date":"2012-09-20T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30536"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:06","slug":"weve-talked-about-this-havent-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30536","title":{"rendered":"We’ve Talked About This, Haven’t We?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “reporting” by “Mother Jones” on Mitt Romney’s “47%” remark is looking, more and more<\/a>, to be an invocation of the McKay Corolllary (“Any time the liberal media (to say nothing of leftyblogs) \u201creports\u201d on putative conservative misdeeds, they should be distrusted but verified. \u00a0And then, to an almost-mathemetical standard of invariably, distrusted some more.”) to Berg’s Seventh Law<\/a> (“When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds”)<\/p>\n

When originally presented by David Corn of Mother Jones, there was no disclosure that part of Mitt Romney\u2019s controversial answer about 47% of voters was missing from the tape.<\/p>\n

Since only an edited version originally was presented, there was no way to know if something was missing. After all, it was edited, so of course something was missing by definition.<\/p>\n

Romney has admitted that the answer on the video, which he didn\u2019t remember except for the video, was \u201cinelegant.\u201d That\u2019s why Romney asked for the full audio\/video to be released.<\/p>\n

Corn reacted vigorously to Romney\u2019s suggestion that he only provided \u201csnippets,\u201d and then Corn released what purported to be the complete audio\/video in two parts. The \u201ccomplete\u201d version was consistent with the original edited audio\/video. Again, there was no disclosure by Corn that there might be something missing. (Corn added an \u201cupdate\u201d after my original story ran.\u201d<\/p>\n

To the contrary, Corn went out of his way to assert that there was no \u201cfiltering\u201d and that the full audio\/video had been released. As Corn explained to Howard Kurtz of The Daily Beast (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

Is the liberal media making too much of the Romney video? \u201cIt feeds into a narrative he\u2019s been fighting all along, that he\u2019s a 1 percenter, not one of us, doesn\u2019t really understand it,\u201d Corn says. And since these are the candidate\u2019s own words, \u201cthere\u2019s no filter here whatsoever, there\u2019s no out-of-context argument to be made.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there was a filter. As reported in my prior post<\/a>, Corn has admitted that 1-2 minutes of audio\/video are missing. That missing audio\/video includes part of Romney\u2019s controversial answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe even Berg’s Seventh Law and its McKay Corollary, hitherto nearly airtight, is obsolete and needs strenghening? \u00a0Maybe upgrade to the “Sixty-First-Minute Law of Media Bias<\/a>“; any time the mainstream (to say nothing of overtly liberal) media presents supposedly damaging information about conservatives, they should presumed guilty of dishonest editing or outright manufacturing of evidence until proven innocent”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “reporting” by “Mother Jones” on Mitt Romney’s “47%” remark is looking, more and more, to be an invocation of the McKay Corolllary (“Any time the liberal media (to say nothing of leftyblogs) \u201creports\u201d on putative conservative misdeeds, they should be distrusted but verified. \u00a0And then, to an almost-mathemetical standard of invariably, distrusted some more.”) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-30536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-media","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33248,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions\/33248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}