of the way that the “alternate” media is able to anatomize the alternate reality fabricated in the “mainstream.” William Rivers Pitt describes the real debate debacle—not that Obama’s performance wasn’t bad.
“The real losers and failures last Wednesday were the denizens of the ‘news’ media, and because of them, the American people at large lost big as well. In the week after that debate, the entire ‘news’ media infrastructure unplugged its collective intelligence, sent the fact-checkers off on an extended lunch break, and extolled the virtues of Mr. Romney’s ‘strong’ performance without bothering to mention the degree to which he had lied, reversed himself and completely mischaracterized virtually every aspect of his campaign to date.”