Republicans, spinning the media into orbit - Alterman

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You can call me “liberal.”  I am liberal.  But the headlines I’ve written comport more closely with the view held by most of the civilized world.  The opposite views—the ones around which our political circuses spin—are held only by a tiny minority of people.

The Note notes approvingly all the ways in which its colleagues have been successfully manipulated by the Republicans at this convention into spouting disingenuous nonsense not only with free facials and poached salmon, but by among, many, many other things,

“Banished any talk of health care, unemployment, and poverty figures.”

and

“Mostly kept reporters from chasing their own (potentially anti-Bush) storylines by doling out pre-planned surprises at calibrated intervals."

and of course

“Got reporters to say and write "compassionate conservative" with a straight face.”  

It’s here.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/