The Press and Misnomers of the day…

We can remember just last week, as just about every month that we’ve been publishing, we try to either blatantly or at other times try to sneak one by – all for the measure of good reading, writing, and understanding. The issue of which we refer to is the two words that ostensibly create confusion in the minds of many; Content and Context.

Context is that physical realm where the by-product of an event occurs. Most of the time we see things such as “…hey dude, let’s keep it in context…” What the speaker is implying is that the other person probably has swayed off course and is beginning to either trip up the original speaker, or he is using a very old debate technique known as reversal. Reversal is where an opponent sees an opening – based on something you’ve said to advance his own cause by using your words.

Be not dismayed! However, whenever talking about religion, politics, or sex in the American culture one needs to be alert so as not to let his words (content) be spun, manipulated, or taken out of context. When it happens and unfortunately it happens to all of us there are people who wait for just that instant.

We are of the opinion that the real experts in word projecting and spin are the very members of the press. And we’ve got to say that if the press believes it can get over on all of the people, all of the time, then they are the one’s standing in a mire of dung.

Early this morning a video tape version of a person as he was ending up a press conference and as usual was asked one more question that was responded to with: “I am running [for president] for the American people…I could care less about those people in the lower-income categories…because…”

Under normal circumstances the writer’s pool would have waited until this person was done with his sentence. But no, this is where the American press illuminates in lying and fabricating what was actually said, content, and blew the entire matter so far out of proportion that they were able to change the context of what was originally stated.

So here it is the content and context of what was stated:

“I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it,” the Republican front-runner said Wednesday on CNN, following his victory in the Florida primary. “I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of the America, the 90 percent, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling.”

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien pressed him on his comments, adding that they may sound odd for Americans who are very poor.

“Well you had to finish the sentence, Soledad,” he replied. “I said ‘I’m not concerned about the very poor that have a safety net but if it has holes in it, I will repair them.’ The challenge right now — we will hear from the Democrat party the plight of the poor. And there’s no question it’s not good being poor and we have a safety net to help those that are very poor. But my campaign is focused on middle-income Americans.”

“We have a very ample safety net,” said Romney. “And we can talk about whether it needs to be strengthened or whether there are holes in it. But we have food stamps, we have Medicaid, we have housing vouchers, we have programs to help the poor.”

Here is a copy of the video tape at The New York Post .