Networks Silent on President's Violation of Pledge Not to Raise Taxes on Middle Class

Newsbusters ^ | 11/12/09 | Julia A. Seymour

[Nachum]

The media gave President Obama credit during the campaign for promising not to raise taxes on the middle class. He was on the trail in New Hampshire when he made a "firm pledge" not to raise taxes on any family "making less than $250,000 a year."

Obama is doing his best to break that promise, but the network news media haven't bothered to report it. On Nov. 6 when he endorsed the tax increase-laden health care reform bill that the House of Representatives passed on Nov. 7, Obama violated his pledge.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Marine_Uncle]

Looks like as usual the L/MSM will wait until Fox News makes a sufficient noise then when they cannot hold out any longer will join in.

[RepublicanMeansAmerican]

What else is new? They’re silent on all his screw-ups and evasions.

[chris37]

The networks are silent on everything regarding this pathetic administration.

Which is why I don’t watch them, nor will I ever watch them.

No point in watching silence.

[PilotDave]

Obama broke that promise on Feb. 4th 2009 when he signed the SCHIP Bill that raised taxes on tobacco produts by up to 2500% (not a typo).

[C210N]

With the way the LSM has handled many news stories over time, especially in the last year, its instructive to note which stories gain traction, and how it does so. I’ve observed that the media outlets move in lockstep on a leftist agenda that is getting more and more bold and blatant. We should project for what appears to be outrageous behavior on their part today, and that will only intensify in how the LSM handles future elections.

[ThunderSleeps]

Of course he's going to raise taxes and violate his "pledge."

• This is obama we're talking about, of course he's lying, it is in his nature/character.
• He's a Democrat, 'nuff said.
• He's a fascist leaning socialist, he needs the money to fund his big government agenda.
• The 'rat base is the ultra rich and ultra poor - neither group worries about taxes.
• I believe he is actively trying to destroy what America was, and prevent what America could be. He wants a weaker, more compliant, "world citizen" America for his socialist brethren.

[Recovering_Democrat]

[Marine_Uncle]

I'm with ya. But it is not just in the past year these lovers of socialist and communist movements have shown their ugly heads. I have seen this crap displayed in the L/MSM papers and television network news and associated broadcasts for to many years. Let us go back to before Wally Crankcase and Blather in their early days.
Let us go back to the roaring twenties when Trotsky and his crew where in the USA and started unions..... the history goes way back.