Posted on 01/29/2009 4:33:47 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Shortly after the House on Wednesday passed President Barack Obama's $825 billion "stimulus" package, ABC and CBS commiserated with Obama over his unsuccessful efforts to woo Republican votes. "Not one Republican voted for it," ABC anchor Charles Gibson announced on World News with "Rescue Plan" as the on-screen heading, "turning a cold shoulder to the President's appeal for bipartisan support." Reporter Jonathan Karl fretted: "So much for the President's charm offensive. Today it was all partisan rancor and name-calling."
CBS reporter Chip Reid related how "the White House says this is a victory for the President, but certainly there is also some disappointment that he worked so hard to get bipartisan support and couldn't get a single Republican vote." Reid soon chafed over how "Republicans relentlessly attacked the bill despite the President's extraordinary efforts to get bipartisan support." Katie Couric noted how "the President went up to the Hill to personally appeal to Republicans already," so, she pleaded, "what more can he do?"
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the closed-captioning against the video to provide these transcripts of the Wednesday, January 28 stories: [snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
What a bunch of BS? The bitch (Nancy Pelosi) is the one who wouldn’t allow the GOP to have ANY part of the process!
Once again, the drive-by media lies to the sheeple.
More Obama propaganda from the corrupt American media!
Too bad the they found their partisan rancor too little, to late.
Sorry Obama is so slow...time to get a clue....we need permanent tax cuts....and remove the porkulus from this SPENDING BILL!!
It's "Obama's Fault" now! :-)
Unlike the democrats during the Bush administration, who were the models of bipartisan support for the President.
Skeazoids.
Why do these jerks care....the bill passed the House. As Democrats, they should be jumping for joy.
Too bad — so sad — get over it!
Oh and you all were SOOOOO charitable towards President Bush 8 years ago. Hurts don’t it? Tough cookies.
These are the same people who didn’t give Bush a second’s pause before they called him every name in the book and constantly belittled him daily . . . for 8 straight years . . . without letup.
Deal with it, MSM punks! If Obama the Most Magnificent deserves criticism, he should get it.
Oh, I dunno, Katie - maybe he could stop smirking and mouthing off about "he won"?
Say, I wonder if we could buy the website "The Smirking Chimp" off the current Leftist operators? ;-)
You see this from half a dozen major media outlets simultaneously and it means something. What this one means is that they’re testing their abilities to bully the Republicans and are dismayed that they aren’t what they used to be. Beyond that, it doesn’t mean a thing.
Marxist SOB is lucky a cold shoulder is all he got.
Katie, kiss our asses you Obama butt kissing slut.
Goodnesswins, of FREEREPUBLIC....CHIDES the Main Stream Media for not even REPORTING what is IN the PORKULUS bill, and for supporting the UNETHICAL Democrats who are trying to Kill America.
Maybe some conservative group needs to buy ads on network TV that just state that Congress has been led by Democrats since 2006. Live has been much harder since then and a ton of Americans think that Republicans have been in charge of Congress until Jan of this year.
.” Katie Couric noted how “the President went up to the Hill to personally appeal to Republicans already,” so, she pleaded, “what more can he do?”
Kind of reminds me of how Cynthia McKenney got her azz kissed by Bush and Bush spent more money on education than Clinton did.
A week later, McKenney was calling Bush racist and killing our children’s education...sorry don’t rmember all of this “poor Obama tried BS”
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