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So here, we have Thomas McDonald unpacking the sad display<\/a>.\u00a0 Long and short?\u00a0 MSNBC used almost shamelessly obvious levels of editing to attempt a Supermarket Scanner moment for Mitt Romney.\u00a0 The problem?\u00a0 Well first and most important, it\u2019s a lie.\u00a0 The story that Romney was gobsmacked by all this fancy schmancy technology was not true.\u00a0 It was made to look that way through massive editing.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But the real joke, of course, is that it is so elitist.\u00a0 So arrogant.\u00a0 So self-contained, and demonstrative of the mentally incestuous cabal that MSNBC caters to.\u00a0 WaWa?\u00a0 What the hell is a WaWa?\u00a0 In my part of the country, I\u2019ve not seen such a thing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve vaguely heard\u00a0of the reports, but haven\u2019t paid attention, since our current economic conditions don\u2019t allow me many opportunities to peruse the various merchant establishments where such technology might reside in similar fashion.\u00a0 Of course that\u2019s an ugly truth that MSNBC would rather saw of an arm than admit to \u2013 that our economy is not on the verge of unprecedented prosperity and comfort.<\/p>\n

Fact is, I looked up some inflation stats and figured my income that I\u2019m currently making backwards, and it\u2019s frightening just how little folks are being paid today.\u00a0 If this were 1985?\u00a0 Let me say it this way \u2013 I could do only slightly worse by flipping pizzas at our local pizzeria.\u00a0 And this is a job that required a college education and years of experience.\u00a0 That\u2019s the elephant in the room\u00a0 of course.\u00a0 Everyone is saying jobs, jobs, jobs.\u00a0 What nobody wants to admit is that the jobs that are out there, for anyone less than doctor\/lawyer\/government employee\u00a0level, pay so little compared to 30 years ago, that it\u00a0scarcely does any good to have them.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s for another rant.\u00a0 That\u2019s the sort of stuff that MSNBC, CNN, and the other MSM outlets are trying desperately to ignore, hoping for a story like this, even if they must invent it.\u00a0 The fact that the Internet exists to allow us to see with ease how obviously wrong the facts are, suggests we\u2019ve come into a phase where the MSM knows most folks don\u2019t care if it\u2019s true anymore.\u00a0 They just want to win.\u00a0 Even if we go bankrupt on our way to the victor\u2019s circle.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"