Reply #63: Gaffes and English style [View All]

When there are two senses to an expression and one can be more easily presumed than another you are in MSM gotcha territory if the MSM so decides- as it does regularly. I think the defense that it means you have(to be covered) for preventive care is the hard fact behind the statement. The expression, to anyone not soaked to the bone in the campaign planks like the candidate is, can more easily be interpreted on its "face" value. they also spent a good portion of labor day talking about the anti-SUV comment and whether he drives a SUV.

I love the degree of intense perfection expected of OUR candidates and the degree of ignorance tolerated by the MSM for itself. In defense of the mystified listeners they receive only encouragement from the MSM to go ballistic on first impressions.

Yes, yes, candidates have to more careful about the use of words despite having the black and white of the platforms to back them up. Having to apologize for an offense of putting the accent on the wrong double meaning of this magnitude would be another overlarge price the MSM would gleefully extract and run with, the scurrying little legs of ratty stories running at the heels of their GOP masters.

Again, the corporate media dictates and controls the terms and topics of the national discusson and a great deal of DU discussion in ways never defended against. They OWN the spotlight.