{"id":8160,"date":"2012-10-05T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8160"},"modified":"2012-10-05T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T22:30:21","slug":"more-context-mangling-by-the-romney-camp-joe-biden-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8160","title":{"rendered":"More Context Mangling By The Romney Camp: Joe Biden Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Romney campaign has made grabbing snippets of President Obama’s speeches and contorting their meaning the central strategy of his campaign<\/a>. Yesterday they expanded their strategy to include Vice-President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

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Fox News and its community web site Fox Nation, leaped on Biden after he delivered a speech saying pretty much the same thing that Obama has been saying for years. The extracted snippet that Fox is blasting as if it were somehow significant is “Yes we do.”<\/em> Fox then elaborates by placing those three little words next to “want to raise taxes.”<\/em> But that is not what Biden said. Here is the complete quote in context:<\/p>\n

“On top of the trillion dollars in spending we’ve already cut, we’re going to ask, yes, we’re going to ask the wealthy to pay more. My heart breaks. Come on, man. You know the phrase they always use? ‘Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.’ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly Biden was reiterating Obama’s long held agenda to let Bush’s tax cuts for the rich expire. There is nothing controversial about demonstrating consistency in political ideology, which is what Biden did. Yet Romney, with the help of Fox News, is twisting these comments to imply that Obama is planning to raise everyone’s taxes. They know that isn’t true, which is the definition of a lie. If Romney wants people to stop calling him a liar, all he has to do is stop lying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Romney campaign has made grabbing snippets of President Obama’s speeches and contorting their meaning the central strategy of his campaign. Yesterday they expanded their strategy to include Vice-President Joe Biden. Fox News and its community web site Fox Nation, leaped on Biden after he delivered a speech saying pretty much the same thing that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[33,377,260],"class_list":["post-8160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-27C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53618,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53618","url_meta":{"origin":8160,"position":0},"title":"Republicans Are in Denial, Trump Feeds the Sickness, and the GOP Blames That on – Joe Biden?","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/5\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"There is growing consensus that the Republican Party has devolved into a cult that worships at the bone-spurred feet of the twice-impeached, former reality TV game show host, and failed pseudo-businessman, Donald Trump. 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