The media and the administration have this spin cycle down to an absolute science now.
However devastating the story, they can spin it so that you will think it is the greatest news since sliced bread -- or at the very least, is so confusing that you'll stop trying to figure it out.
Take a story that Johns Hopkins researchers now estimate that more than 600,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and its bloody aftermath.
Immediately after the first reports, the follow-up stories all stressed the fact that the figure was "controversial." That doesn't mean it was wrong of course, and the science the researchers used to arrive at that figure is impeccable. But President Bush says he does not believe the figures, and if you can't believe him....
If you stress the controversy, you can take attention away from the horror of the figures.
That is 600,000 men, women and children who have died because of our war. But hey, they're only Ragheads. Who cares?
Posted by Deck at October 11, 2006 09:21 PM