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...legislative history of the 1981 Reagan tax and budget plan showed, however, reality is a little more complicated. Not only do politicians rarely have a clear notion of the technical features of their own legislation, Grieder claims, but they also are usually powerless against the forces that distort and emasculate even the most comprehensive proposals--inertia, political horse-trading, special interest greed, and just plain human error. In such an "anarchic" milieu, Grieder says, grand conceptions about "the way the world works"--in Stockman's case, supply-side economics--fall by the wayside, and their beliefs lapse into cynical despair...
...years in politics," says Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. One reason is that candidates have more money to hire consultants and admen who will search out, or if necessary invent, flaws in an opponent's record and then craft ads that will magnify and distort them...
Spiegelman points to a disturbingly plausible reason the media attempts to dismember, discredit and distort anti-militarist politics "The major mass media are intimately linked to the military-industrial-banking-complex, which has every thing to lose it as Brecht put it in Mother Courage, 'peace breaks out "'Morgan Guaranty Trust (MGT) holds top percentages of voting stock in the Washington Post (MGT is the third most powerful voter), the Gannett Newspapers. CBS, Time, and ABC. The bank also holds the leading percentages of voting stock in defense corporations such as United Technologies (where MGT holds the number-one voting...
Political campaigns are wretched forums for debating economic policy. Passionate partisan oratory invariably oversimplifies, when it does not downright distort, what by their nature are formidably complex issues. And that is the case, in spades, for the mid-term election campaign now plodding toward its conclusion at the polls next Tuesday...
...watch Parrel! stretching a Farrell part is a front-line experience; dancing just does not go further . . . And though she advanced to the very limit of the ballet's style, she never toppled into distortion. Farrell's choreography in Chaconne is already a study in rococo excess. To exceed excess and still not distort: quite a feat...