This happens in the opposite direction as well. Reporters will deliberately misunderstand a joke or a polite question in order to give the impression that a candidate is ignorant or out of touch. "Dan Quayle thinks people in Latin America speak Latin!" "President Bush has never seen a supermarket scanner!" I have a rather progressive friend who had totally bought into the narrative that George W. Bush was a moron and that Dick Cheney was the evil power behind the throne making all the decisions. Then, a few years after he left office, she actually met Bush in person when he visited the company she was working for. She was completely shocked to realize after interacting with him that not only is the former President not an idiot, he's actually pretty intelligent.
I’m glad to see us return to Looney Tunes. Truth be told, I’ve never cared for Disney cartoons, even if the alternative was a Ghost & Mrs. Muir episode I’d seen 30 times.
As for the major topic of the piece, good article! Give me a hard-boiled reporter any time over a snooty, elite-university-graduate journalist looking down her nose at us little people as she tells us what to think.
This happens in the opposite direction as well. Reporters will deliberately misunderstand a joke or a polite question in order to give the impression that a candidate is ignorant or out of touch. "Dan Quayle thinks people in Latin America speak Latin!" "President Bush has never seen a supermarket scanner!" I have a rather progressive friend who had totally bought into the narrative that George W. Bush was a moron and that Dick Cheney was the evil power behind the throne making all the decisions. Then, a few years after he left office, she actually met Bush in person when he visited the company she was working for. She was completely shocked to realize after interacting with him that not only is the former President not an idiot, he's actually pretty intelligent.
I’m glad to see us return to Looney Tunes. Truth be told, I’ve never cared for Disney cartoons, even if the alternative was a Ghost & Mrs. Muir episode I’d seen 30 times.
As for the major topic of the piece, good article! Give me a hard-boiled reporter any time over a snooty, elite-university-graduate journalist looking down her nose at us little people as she tells us what to think.