Seriously, is anyone shocked?  They are going to pull out all the stops to protect their Lightbringer … its full on Alinsky all the way to November.  Expect it to get worse.

Fight fire with fire and be relentless. 

Not only was it a 5,000-word pre-packaged hit piece, but it was a “fake but accurate” 5,000-word pre-packaged hit piece.

The WaPo’s named source wasn’t even there.

The guy they’re talking about whom Mitt picked on turns out has been dead since, I think, sometime in the nineties. I’m surprised they haven’t tried to imply he was so devastated by Mitt’s treatment of him that he might have committed suicide. Or maybe that’s coming next, depending of course on the circumstances of his death, whether or not there is a question as to why he died at such a relatively early age, and whether there is any other lingering question marks about his death. Plus, I guess they haven’t had time to conduct adequate poll tests yet of potential reactions to such a charge.

Imagine that; the media helping to prepare the ground for Obama…

The description of the high school was a particularly inspired touch (actually better than the description of the incident itself).

 Of course not! RAAAAACIST!

 Bah. We can be sure Johnny Boy got his headspace messed up at the Co$. For which he paid far, far out the ass.

This sort of thing, give the hippie a haircut, was actually not uncommon during the mid 1960s and 1970s.  My high school Voc Ag teacher told us of his aggie frat brothers at the Univeristy of Missouri catching an underclassman and giving him a haircut with a pair of sheep shears.

In my own high school FFA initiation in the late 1970s we had a guy who was very vain about his hair. He was pinned down while someone rubbed vaseline into it. Like the guy in the story, he also didn’t come back to school for several days – until he was able to wash out the vaseline with gasoline and the natural sheen came back – he was vain about his hair, as I said.

Now what we are talking about here is hazing. And when it is done with a certain flair and without permanent harm it can be shocking but funny and essentially harmless. When it rises to the level of beating someone to death as recently happened in Florida, that’s something else.

Just Wow! When Mitt was a kid, he acted like, gasp, a kid. How long until the media gats arround to ObamAA+s college transcripts? Or his high school records? or his ……… need I go on?

Another way of looking at it:  the average op-ed column runs about 750 words.  That’s just opinion, respectable writers check their own facts before submitting, but there’s no “reporting” to it.  A guy who turns out three of those a week of any reasonable quality (translation:  that readers want to read) would generally be “full time” at it.   Not an easy task. 

Just the length of the piece would be more than two weeks’ worth of work at it for the writing alone, not mentioning the time spent tracking down and interviewing potential witnesses.  I’d be shocked and impressed if the thing didn’t take three weeks to put together, and would think it would be a several more weeks’ project for most reporters.

Stacy, your nearly 1500 word piece on short notice was extraordinary, which is probably why it sticks in your mind.  But your reporting was all done when you got the deadline, and I’m guessing the number of times you’ve had to produce that sort of lineage in a day’s time wouldn’t require all the fingers on one hand in your career. 

So yeah, this was worked on, prepared, the “gay” angle may or may not have been added as a result of the Obama campaign’s needs of the moment.  But I doubt it was coordinated, because the Romney story isn’t of the nature of the President’s pronouncement, which affects our entire society, and will likely fizzle out quickly.  A coordinated roll-out would have had it a week before or after Barry’s Big Gay Boat Ride.

The good news is they have to go back to high school capers for this, 1965, which invites the question of why Obama’s college records are so secret and ignored by the media.

Stacy, your nearly 1500 word piece on short notice was extraordinary . . .  I’m guessing the number of times you’ve had to produce that sort of lineage in a day’s time wouldn’t require all the fingers on one hand in your career.

 
Early in my career, I was a sports editor for a weekly paper. That  sometimes required a massive all-nighter to hit the once-a-week deadline. So cranking out high quantities of copy at high speed was a survival skill. But anyone who’s ever cranked it like that knows, some post-deadline recovery is necessary. I suppose it is possible that the WaPo writer could have cranked out 5,000 words in an insane three-day frenzy, but it’s far more likely he spent at least a week on the writing part of the article, following several weeks of reporting.

But … why assign a writer to spend so much time digging around on Romney’s high-school days? Kind of an over-investment, don’t you think?

But is O going to apologize for bullying a black girl?  I’m highly annoyed with Romney for apologizing.  

I’m thinking the landscape was the thing they most wanted to insinuate — the richey rich a-hole is going to be a meme this election cycle methinks.

Instead of apologizing (ok, apologize — it was the sort of thing that would get you shamed and possibly spanked in most respectful homes — but use the moment to 1) point out how stupid a thing to bring up; 2) point out that by focusing on stupid bs a lot of very important things are not being brought up: right now I think American citizens are feeling a wee bit bullied, no?  American troops, probably feeling a wee bit bullied, yes?  and by their own freaking government!  Now there’s a bullying story!).

Ah, phffft, what’s the use….