"Romney set to destroy the centre ground" by Paul Rosenberg at Aljazeera

Romney set to destroy the centre ground

by Paul Rosenberg at Aljazeera

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/07/2012712122146656404.html

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After looking into the matter, it seems as though Romney doesn't really have a serious jobs plan, despite a 95-point document full of goodies for his multi-millionaire friends. None of what he proposed was the sort of thing that economists usually categorise as job-creation, much less model or measure in those terms. There were, for example, seven anti-labour proposals with no measurable job-creating impact. This directly parallels Romney's budget proposals, which he insists "can't be scored" by the Congressional Budget Office, and hence can't be discussed by economists - despite the fact that what he has said so far simply doesn't add up.

Then Legum quotes from what he describes as "a stunning interview with Breitbart.com, [in which] two top advisers to Mitt Romney revealed the campaign's plan to largely ignore journalists in favour of right-wing conspiracy websites". He quotes Romney campaign spokesman Lenny Alcivar as follows:

"When this election is over, one of the lessons that will be learned by the mainstream media is that they no longer have a toe-hold on how Americans receive their news. Never before - in a way that has taken Democrats off stride - have we seen the confluence of an aggressive online community, led by Breitbart, and an aggressive campaign team not willing to cede an inch of ground to Democrats. This combination has created a new political reality. We no longer allow the mainstream media to define the political realities in America. The rise of Breitbart, Drudge and others, combined with an aggressive Romney campaign is a powerful tool in the arsenal of the conservative movement… The governor will no longer allow the mainstream media to dictate the terms of this debate. This is just the beginning… We are witnessing the rise of the centre right media.

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