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Posted on 11/18/2011 6:11:06 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
It is open season for the liberal media on any GOP presidential candidate who displays the audacity to surge in the polls, the latest targets being Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. A reasonable case can be made for some of these criticisms, and conservatives often concede the weaknesses, but there is no justification for this same media's ongoing cover-up for the current White House occupant.
Can you imagine how differently our political climate would be if the mainstream media had the slightest inclination toward fairness and balance? The liberal media have never, to my knowledge, shined the spotlight on Obama's many embarrassing gaffes. They have rarely called attention to his deceit, broken promises and policy failures.
Part of the reason is their presupposition that because he's a credentialed left-winger, he is brilliant, and any departure from that is a mere aberration, an exception that couldn't possibly detract from his presumptive brilliance. And as a bona fide "progressive," he is imbued with superior moral standards, and his misdeeds must be excused in exchange for his dedication to policies the liberal media deem are ethically unassailable.
From the mainstream media's perspective, conservatives, on the other hand, are presumptively dimwitted or morally bankrupt, because you can't be intelligent and conservative unless you're morally depraved. Ronald Reagan was an amiable dunce, despite his unparalleled ability to communicate; Dan Quayle was irredeemably simple because he misspelled "potato." George W. Bush was too stupid to tie his shoes (but inexplicably cunning enough to con erudite liberal congressmen into supporting him in his devious plot to depose Saddam Hussein).
GOP candidates magically become less competent or more corrupt the instant they show any signs of electability. Meanwhile, the MSM continue to ignore, defend and lie about Obama's abundant gaffes, policy failures, deceptions, divisiveness and extremism.
Think how different our discussions of electability would be if the liberal media were to:
--Dan-Quayle Obama for his "57 states" and Navy "corpse-man" gaffes.
--Play a video loop of his brain freezes and verbal stutter-steps.
--Showcase his shoutout to Dr. Joe Medicine Crow during what was expected to be a solemn expression of sorrow for the victims of the Fort Hood murderer.
--Air a montage of his bellicose attacks against Republicans, followed by clips in which he bitterly complained of their partisanship.
--Remind him of his immodest pledge to be a post-racial president while having ushered in an acutely race-conscious climate.
--Call him out for wasting $868 billion on a "stimulus" that Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf admitted would have "a net negative effect on the growth of GDP over 10 years."
--Refuse to ignore his cynical admission that he hadn't been altogether honest in claiming there were abundant "shovel-ready" jobs waiting in the wings.
--Point out that he promised to improve America's international image but has turned out to be even less popular in the Muslim world than President George W. Bush and has repeatedly offended our allies and their leaders, the most recent being Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
--Highlight that Obama expressed solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protesters, many of whom have been arrested for criminality, but demonized law-abiding tea partyers.
--Challenge Obama on his disingenuous commitment to make abortion "safe, legal and rare" while his administration has actively promoted the proliferation of abortion domestically, through its unswerving support for Planned Parenthood and its 900 abortions per day and through its taxpayer-funded lobbying for pro-abortion policies in Kenya and other nations.
--Report that Obama crammed through Obamacare on the false representation, aided by fraudulent accounting, that it would bend the health care cost curve down, even though it actually will greatly increase costs.
--Provide even the most rudimentary scrutiny of the twin scandals of Solyndra -- and its many green cousins -- and "Fast and Furious."
--Tell even part of the sordid tale of Obama's symbiotic relationship with ACORN and the Service Employees International Union.
--Ask Obama how he can be so high and mighty in condemning enhanced interrogation techniques on moral grounds despite knowing that with the implementation of those techniques in just three instances, many American lives were actually saved.
--Press him to explain his shaming Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic primary race for proposing a health care insurance mandate and then brazenly making such a mandate a foundational component of Obamacare.
--Underscore his phony, though tepid and "evolving," opposition to same-sex marriage while he unleashes a full-frontal assault on traditional marriage through his extraconstitutional refusal to enforce it in court and his active effort to repeal it legislatively.
I speak of an imaginary world, but imagining it should serve to illustrate the extent to which the liberal media conspire to perpetuate a lingering illusion, to the immeasurable detriment of the nation.
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David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book, "Crimes Against Liberty," was No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction for its first two weeks. Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com.
I know I personally like to imagine it. Even though it’s not reality.
Not really sure how America will survive when the major Media sides with on party. It is becoming very close to a one party control with media help...
Now of course, their efforts are seen as biased so maybe the public will eventually wake up, but will that happen before things become so entrenched that change will be impossible?
I would like to see a Conservative/Republican president bar any media reporter from the Whitehouse on their first publishing incorrect/lying stories.
There should be some penalty for biased, inaccuate reporting.
I hate the American news media with every ounce of my strength!
I haven’t abandoned Cain, and I don’t intend to. The MSM can stick it! I have my candidate!
GO CAIN!
I’m a Cainiac too, TF. So Rick isn’t your guy even though you’re from Texas? :-)
I was a Perry supporter before he destroyed himself in the debates.
But I am on the Cain train for good now, and I am riding it to the end of the line, and I am just ignoring all these ridiculous hit pieces on Cain in the meantime.
there was only ONE time this entire year where nearly everyone on FR was behind a candidate ... and that candidate was Cain...
people, don’t let the media manipulate you!
send a real conservative to the white house in 2012!
Herman Cain 2012!
I predict that in upcoming months we will learn important new things about Obama.
I’d agree with that. Once we narrow down the guy, then it’s on.
“I predict that in upcoming months we will learn
important new things about Obama.”
I agree but we will learn MANY MORE things about
Obama in the months after the election if he is
rehired by the voters at a time when it is too
late to do anything about it. I can’t believe that
the MSM isn’t sitting on some big time stuff right
now.
It’s the reason I support Newt. He has the ability to highlight all these issues and more.
I am okay with Cain, Santorum, or Bachmann.
Might hold my nose for Newt, depending.
Would not vote for any of the remaining four under any circumstance.
You just described the Republican advertising campaign next election cycle.
All those would make a terrific tv ad!
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