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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Larry had better be careful or he will be considered a traitor to his race and an Oreo and an Uncle Tom.
You don't have news media accidentally leaning hard left (90% of them voted for McGovern in '72, remember, the year Nixon carried 49 states) for over 30 years, with an unbroken trend of increasing Left bias going back over 50 years (see Vance Packard, The Opinion Makers, 1965 I think it was), just by accident, luck of the draw, or "demographic tendencies".
It's people producing that out-of-kilter result, on purpose -- and that is the definition of a conspiracy.
About the failure of their favorite deep-red doctrine to charm the liberty-loving American people, more like.
They'd love to see a bunch of us herded off to Belsen or Buchenwald.
You are absolutely correct. The media is merely the propaganda arm of the left. They own it, they make the terms, they set the standards.
The whole thing - gov, media, gov agencies such as schools - is so odious and destructive that I can hardly read news any more - I do, but it’s making me so unglued I can hardly sleep.
I don’t see a cure without breakage.
I find your analogy offensive.
It might be offensive...it does not make it any less true.
Bush's Fault!!!!!!!! Film at 11.
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