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Posted on 05/05/2011 10:22:49 AM PDT by RabidBartender
A blog at CNN.com today begins as follows:
President Barack Obama confronted two political realities this week: – Rising gas prices are bad for a politician’s poll numbers – There is almost nothing a politician can do about it, at least in the short run.
Read the article here and see for yourself how CNN defends President Obama’s actions regarding oil prices. CNN showcases Obama’s recent rhetoric about gas prices, while conveniently neglecting to fact check any of President Obama’s claims (as CNN did when covering President Bush’s gas price rhetoric in past years).
Throughout the article, President Obama is depicted as an everyman who is just as concerned about gas prices as you are—and just as helpless as you are, too. There are “no easy answers,” the blog entry concludes, immediately after quoting President Obama’s complaint that such things as natural disasters and pirates were “not in [his] campaign platform.” “Add gas prices to the list,” CNN adds.
The blog entry is strange, given CNN’s past with holding Republican presidents accountable for fuel price spikes.
Take, for example, this 2008 article, entitled “’Two oil men’ to blame for high gas prices, Pelosi says.” You guessed it: the two “oil men” Pelosi blames are former president Bush and former vice president Cheney. The story focuses heavily on Nancy Pelosi’s attacks on Bush and his administration. CNN does not point out any “political realities” such as “there is almost nothing a politician can do about” gas prices.
In this article (also from 2008), CNN states: “What the president should do immediately to lower gas prices, Pelosi said, is release oil from the 700 million barrels in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.” There is no mention of the “political reality” that apparently, no politician can make a difference regarding American gas prices.
CNN ignores “political realities” once again, perhaps most egregiously, in this 2008 article entitled “President, Congress offer no help on gas prices.” The piece begins:
Before departing the White House early Monday for a farewell tour of Europe, President Bush stole a page from his predecessor and suggested he feels American consumers’ pain.
“A lot of Americans are concerned about our economy,” Bush said. “I can understand why. Gasoline prices are high, energy prices are high. I do remind them that we have put a stimulus package forward that is expected to help boost the economy. And of course, we’ll be monitoring the situation.”
Americans are looking for more action, though, than monitoring the situation.
Take a moment and read through that article, and then compare it to the one that’s out this week (linked above, but also here). Do you sense any media bias?
When you write the narrative, you CONTROL the narrative. That is a lesson we had all better get in our heads very soon, for the 2012 cycle.
Ask any non-informed person what they think of Fox News sometime, and see the wild “FOX LIES!” reaction you will get.
When you realize how effective propaganda really is, it’s truly frightening.
totally agree, This corrupt biased media have done nothing but LIE for their messiah.
The way they have tried to ignore that these family’s were hand picked, how he never has been there before not even on 9/11 but can go to the city for money
How he ordered for Bin Laden to be respected at a burial ceremony, now how he will not release photos and then saying how would we feel if they did it to us, ER THEY HAVE.
Those buying the white house spin of “well we’re better than them”
Then should we have given Hitler and Stalin the same respects?
This is just this week for crying out loud then there is gas, EPA, open border, ignoring wishes of the military for don’t ask it just goes on and on
When there is limited bias from the MSM, more often than not this Country is still very conservative and Republicans win. However, the GOP/RNC is inept mostly in terms of taking on this reality.
Nothing can be done in the short run?
Bull. When oil hit $145 a barrel, Bush announced that he was opening areas to offshore drilling. The price stopped rising THAT DAY, and went straight down until it hit $35 a barrel.
Obama will “discover” something similar about 3-4 months before the next eleciton, count on it. He will then reverse course back to encouraging high prices if he is (God forbid) reelected.
COMMUNIST NEWS NETWORK... understand now?
LLS
Ping.
The national average price of gas $1.85 on January 2009.
Almost $4.00 right now.
And Obama is still slow-walking permits to allow drilling, spitting in the face of the judge who ordered the drilling moratorium be lifted.
Could we start a class action?
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