By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--January 16, 2012
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“There’s a picture that’s making the rounds today — the shoe shine on the tarmac,” Kornacki explained. “I don’t know if you saw this one. I don’t know where this came from… He’s sitting in front of an airplane. I think it might be a corporate jet, and he’s wearing a suit and he’s getting a shoe shine. He’s got a big smile on his face.” …“He’s getting a shoe shine! We put this on Salon earlier today. I’m not sure where it originated. But it never looks good for a politician to be getting a shoe shine, you know, on a tarmac but it looks terrible when it’s Mitt Romney and this is your image and background. It looks worse when it’s the year 2012 and the economy is in such a bad place, and the Democrats are going to be going after your party for being the one that sort of favors the people who get shoe shines on tarmacs!” he added.So, not only did Kornacki lie about the photo — he had no knowledge at all about what it really showed — but he then threw in the “I think it might be a corporate jet” on top of it — again without knowing if it really was or not — so that he could add more layers of lies to the story. To its credit, NPR soon knocked down this false story informing its audience that the picture didn’t show any shoe shining at all. As Tommy Christopher noted, even after it became known that the photo did not depict Romney’s shoe shining, Salon used the false narrative anyway in another story the next day. False as it is, the whole meme is being picked up by every left-wing site out there. Huffington Post even has a self-proclaimed comedy writer offering 12 Captions for Mitt Romney Getting a Shoeshine at the Airport.” As I said, the truth doesn’t matter to the left. Not at all.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.