Analysis: Fudging Facts Can Sour Public Mindset

[Elmore Furth]

Mitt Romney has decided to use NewSpeak to call the color black 'white' and misdirect public attention from the GOP as the 'Party of No.' Looks like a s**t storm is a'brewin'.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservatives leapt to their feet when Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney declared Democrats the party of ''No!'' -- no to balanced budgets, limits on lawsuits, tax cuts and tough interrogations of terror suspects.

But their applause this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference was for an illusion. Romney's assertions lacked context at best and at worst were flat-out wrong.

While Romney and fellow Republicans were filling the air with red-meat distortions, liberal Democratic activists were torturing facts online as they wrote commentary about the conservative gathering.

Such distortion and dishonesty cause Americans to be increasingly skeptical of -- even cynical about -- their political institutions and leaders. Once people lose faith in the political system, they're less likely to vote, less willing to pay taxes to support government-run programs, less motivated to run for office themselves and -- sociologists say -- they're even less likely to get involved in their own communities.

Analysis: Fudging Facts Can Sour Public Mindset

[glowing]

1. That's what the Repukes method is... turn people off from involving themselves in

govt.. which effects their lives so much.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. "Fair and balanced reporting" brought to you by AP

The way the article is written, it would seem that both sides are "torturing facts" and distorting the truth. :eyes: