Dance puppets, dance!

On July 25, 2006, Colbert took to task some television network morning news shows – specifically NBC's The Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America – for taking out of context comments made by Florida Congressman Robert Wexler on The Colbert Report (e.g., "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do"). Wexler had made the comments in response to a suggestion by Colbert to "say some things that would really lose the election for you if you were contested." As of the show's airing, Wexler was running for re-election unopposed. In a rare moment, Colbert broke character to say that Wexler "didn't mean a thing he was saying. He knew it was a joke, and he was confident enough to play along."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_report

If a puppet is made to dance long enough, it will begin to do so on it's own, in the hope of convincing others that the strings do not control it. An identical effect takes place when 'news personalities' defend their indefensibly mandated stupidity.