Posted on 02/20/2010 1:12:32 PM PST by Publius772000
“Untruths have consequences,” the title of the story begins, a statement that could have been used to describe the first year of the Obama administration, the Democratic plummet in the polls, or the elections in New Jersey, Virginia, or Massachusetts. Sadly, though, the author, Ron Fournier, uses his platform to discuss the “distortions” of conservative leaders, lamenting the fact that the conservative request for government to hold to the Founding Principles and stick to the job for which it was created seems to somehow create a cynicism about government.
>>Conservatives leapt to their feet when Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney declared Democrats the party of “No!” — no to balanced budgets, limits on lawsuits, tax cuts and tough interrogations of terror suspects.
But their applause this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference was for an illusion. Romney’s assertions lacked context at best and at worst were flat-out wrong.<<
All right, Mr. Fournier, let’s hear your case as to how Romney, of whom I am not a big fan, lied to the CPAC audience. Wait for it… wait for it…
>>And so it’s worth noting when Romney, the former Massachusetts governor positioning himself for the 2012 presidential race, tells the CPAC crowd that Democrats are opposed to tax cuts.
He conveniently left out the fact that the stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and approved by the Democratic-led Congress included $288 billion in tax benefits, including refundable credits of $400 for individuals and $800 for families in 2009 and 2010 covering about 95 percent of taxpayers.<<
Notice the distortion perpetuated by Fournier of the State-run AP: “tax cuts” are not the same thing as “tax benefits” or “tax credits.”...
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it's widely understood that the evil distract attention from themselves by accusing the innocent of evil.
FUBO. And now, FUAP!
Fournier has always been a leftist drool bucket.
I have come to the conclusion that “journalism” is the only profession that is more dishonest than politics.
Things like this are what truly make me hate politics...things are so nuanced and easily distorted that lies become truth and the media plays the word games knowing full well the difference between a tax credit and a true tax cut...
the deception (mostly from the left) just angers me and then the drones and the sheep buy it hook line and sinker
Well said.
Yes he has. Does he quote man in the street Greg Packer to confirm his view?
Very well said... I think that’s the true source of disgust with all politics.
The US is BROKE. I dare anyone from the AP to prove otherwise. Complete koolaid drunken morons.
The Republicans need to start playing hardball with this bozos, instead of just being a punching bag.
While the Democrats are more than willing to threaten the destruction of conservative talk radio, for example, the Republicans don’t have to stoop so low.
However, they might, again for example, put some fire underneath an organization like AP, by suggesting that perhaps, as a cooperative, they are engaging in unfair trade practices. Practices that might be looked into by a Republican Federal Trade Commission.
MS/NBC, owned by General Electric, is even more vulnerable, because the US government does a lot of business with GE. And it’s awful hard to do business with someone who hates you and supports your enemies.
After letting this story digest in my brain for the afternoon, I had to add one important point in the discussion of tax “cuts” and tax “credits.” One comes before anything is taken out of my check. The other comes after a year of the government using my money, then graciously allowing me to have a few dollars back, if I qualify. Guess which is which? And who supports each?
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