{"id":2382,"date":"2010-11-01T09:19:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T09:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2010-11-01T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T09:19:45","slug":"its_a_political_campaignnot_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"It’s A Political Campaign–Not A Game Of Gotcha’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air<\/a> posted a story yesterday about the accidental recording of a conversation between reporters at the KTVA (CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska) discussing how to sink the Joe Miller campaign for U. S. Senate.  Evidently a person in the newsroom left a voice mail for the Joe Miller campaign and did not properly hang up the telephone.<\/p>\n

A transcript of the conversation is posted at Hot Air.  Essentially, the newspeople were going to search the crowd at a Joe Miller rally to look for a child molester or a registered sex offender and then feature that person as a typical Joe Miller supporter.  They also toyed with the idea of creating some sort of chaos they could put on twitter to use against the candidate.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how smart the average American voter is, but I hope we are smart enough to know stupid campaign tricks by the media when we see them.  Notice that the newsroom is not having a discussion of any political issues or state issues involved in this campaign.  Does anyone care what the candidates want to do after they are elected?  Have we become so stupid that we just accept a party line without thinking about the implications of electing a person from that party?  I don’t know.  I do think it is scary to see the media trying to stir up trouble for one candidate instead of providing honest information on the issues involved in the election.  I don’t know how I could trust any election reporting by this news group after reading the transcript of this conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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