NPR Lets Daily Show Regular, WaPo’s Milbank Knock GOP Presidential Field
On Wednesday's All Things Considered, NPR's Ari Shapiro let The Daily Show's John Oliver and The Washington Post's Dana Milbank cast aspersions on some of the declared 2012 Republican presidential candidates and their surrogates. Oliver mocked the talking points of a Ron Paul spokesman as ” pointless ” and ” meaningless ,” while Milbank derided the candidacy of Herman Cain. Host Melissa Block introduced Shapiro's report about the White House correspondent's first visit to a post-presidential debate spin room, and gave a hint of its overall mocking tone: ” The spin room might be a good name for an amusement park ride or part of a fun house . That makes it a perfect fit for a presidential campaign, which can get a bit wacky even in these early days.” Shapiro picked up where Block left off: “The idea of a spin room somehow seems at odds with journalism. After all, spin is basically propaganda, distortion. A whole room devoted to the art suggests a place where reality is what you make of it.” He then cited as his first example a statement from Newt Gingrich's daughter/adviser Kathy Lubbers:
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