Posted on 05/04/2010 5:31:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
Obama Double Standard Disease: an affliction that causes the media to ignore, rationalize or trivialize to defend, support and advance the tax-the-rich, spread-the-wealth, expand-the-government agenda of the president and his party.
This stands in stark contrast with media treatment of those who refuse to embrace the left-wing, America-bullies-world, dissenters-are-racist, pro-amnesty, gay-marriage-is-a-right, pro-Roe worldview.
ODSD is pandemic. Here are just a few cases.
When the economy recovered under President George W. Bush, the major media pronounced it a "jobless recovery." Now, despite unemployment stalled at 9.7% for several months, the same media call it a "surprising" or "unexpected" recovery.
Obama urged passage of an $800 billion "stimulus" package to prevent unemployment from reaching 8%. Post-stimulus passage, unemployment reached 10%. Consider how the media would have treated Bush had he given varying predictions about, and then varying accounts of, the number of jobs supposedly "created or saved" — a laughably unprovable yardstick.
Obama brazenly claims that under his policies, 95% of "working Americans" received a "tax cut." But nearly half of American workers pay absolutely nothing in income taxes. And after exemptions, tax credits and other deductions, the Obama tax cut even exceeded many workers' payroll taxes. How does a check, given to someone who pays little or no taxes, become a "tax cut"?
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Someone on FR called them Mouthpiece Media, I’ve been sticking with that. Yours is good too.
At some point you would think that these idiots in the dinosaur media would have some modicum of shame. Yet with Obama’s semen dripping from their chins they proudly defend the indefensible.
The modern Liberal is a Loyalist.
ya and the lib side has a hard time telling the truth
MSM is hoping for a return to the Fairness Doctrine and possibly subsidies to save them. They are bitter about being market failures.
I always had a fondness for the terms; "Presstitute" or "Pressholes".
Those are both very good.
Isn’t that the truth
Umm, no.
Loyalists were loyal to Britain, so much so that they left the USA, and became conservatives here in Canada.
They were loyal to the supremacy of an all-powerful government and bowed to a questionably sane king.
I.E. Modern Liberals.
The left and the MSM know they are losing,(in the polls and in newspaper sales) even though they are in power. They are fighting the only way they can, with propoganda, and will ratchet it up all the way to November, and they will still lose.
It’s the reason I quit in 1995 - and the leftist bias was astonishing back then.
Not that I have anything against bias. In fact, bias is fine, as long as it is honestly expressed. That’s why I love Rush and Beck, remain somewhat distant about O’Reilly, and absolutely abhor the Times and NBC. I know where Beck stands. I’m unsure about O’Reilly. The mere fact that NBC tells me that they are the arbiter of what I need to know tells me enough. The founders understood that bias is a natural part of free expression and thought that the reader would make up his own mind.
Larry Elder’s spot on with his analysis, as usual.
Call it what it is Pravda - the socialist media of America. SMA
Well played!
One-Sidedness?
Nah. Just the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.
IMHO
But nobody listens to them anymore.
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