…Or Both?
In politics, the use of “dirty tricks” to discredit one’s opponent(s). This often takes the form of false or semi-false accusations spread through underhanded means. The term was coined in the 1960s by Hunter S. Thompson and Bob Woodward.
But here’s something that has been mini-swirling through the feverswamps for a few days now, and the ripples seem to have found their way into the pages of The New Yorker.
Which are the whispered suggestions that maybe, just maybe, all this attack addling and video-smearing of Mitt Romney by the Newticle is not actually f*cking, but instead rodent-driven inoculation for a short attention-spanned nation?
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What did the producer of the supposed ‘anti-capitalist’ hitpiece video “When Mitt Romney Came to Town”, a man named Barry Bennett who is a right-sider that has worked extensively for Rick ‘Three Things’ Perry, have to say when the New Yorker’s Kelefa Sanneh asked him about it:
Why, this, of course:
“I wanted people to see what the Democrats are going to do [to] this guy.”
Oh.
And one other thing
The Director of the above-linked video is a fine fellow named Jason Millon Keath, who according to the New Yorker:
….has previously worked with the Stevens & Schriefer Group, a consulting firm that worked on Romney’s 2008 Presidential campaign…
Imagine that!
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