re: #57 Kronocide

Twitchy has a habit of saying ‘the Left wants to X’ then showing a tweet from some nutty miscreant saying X.

Then Killgore gets all nervous about it, paranoid like a first time pot user. However the wannabe liberal censors have no pull, no real influence and hope of having their policies instituted. Meanwhile Romney is actually campaigning on cracking down on pornography.

“Wong assured us that Romney is very concerned with this, and that if he’s elected these laws will be enforced,” Trueman told the website. ”They promised to vigorously enforce federal adult obscenity laws.”

Around the time Trueman says he received those assurances, Romney signed Morality in Media’s anti-porn pledge along with Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, whom he was still battling for the GOP nomination. Since then, he hasn’t mentioned the issue very often.

Romney seemed to say the right words for Trueman in 2007, when he was campaigning for president in Iowa the last time. “We got to clean up the water that our kids are swimming in,” he said in a TV ad. “And by that I mean the pornography, the drug culture, the violence, the sex, the perversion that bombards them day in and day out. So I want to make sure we enforce our obscenity laws.”

That’s comparative context, something that gets ignored when one’s only motive is to triangulate true neutral.