Don’t be Mork from Ork—do your own research
If Mork from Ork had just landed on Earth last week and tuned into the Republican National Convention, no one could fault him if he believed that President Barack Obama single-handedly created and drove up a $3.6 trillion budget deficit.
Mork, of the classic TV show “Mork & Mindy,” also might think it’s entirely Obama’s fault that 23 million people here are unemployed. And that Obama oversaw the shuttering of a GM plant in Janesville, Wis.
Now, don’t get us wrong. We know that Mork will get the same skewed view of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, from Obama and his surrogates this week from the Democratic National Convention. By week’s end, Democrats will lead Mork to believe Romney has grown horns, a pitchfork and a tail.
This is the sorry state of American politics. It’s really not all that new, even as plenty of people decry the worst negativity among ads from the candidates and their super PACs ever. It continues despite clear evidence that the nasty ads and skewed spins work to lower civic participation.
