Jon Stewart on Romney reframing effort: “Turd containment on Bullshit Mountain.”

  
  
  
  

Source: sandandglass

Here’s an example of the “reframing” effort, the script — currently being undertaken by panicky Fox “news” and Team Romney — to spin Mitt Romney’s own words into something a bit more palatable to the “47 percent” that Romney dismissed as a scavenging horde of grifters, eaters, and shiftless bums, and whose existence sucks the lifeblood from the upstanding and heroic entrepreneurial class:

He was obviously inarticulate in making this point. The point we’re trying to make here is, under the Obama economy, government dependency is up and economic stagnation is up. And what we’re trying to achieve is trying to get people off government dependency and back to a job that pays well, that gets them on the path to prosperity.” — Paul Ryan

No. Sorry, Paul Ryan. Mitt didn’t mean to say that, at all. And then the spin goes counter-clockwise:

  
  
  
Source: sandandglass
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