Posted on 01/14/2009 11:04:10 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
Four years ago, the Associated Press and others in the press suggested it was in poor taste for Republicans to spend $40 million on President Bush’s inauguration. AP writer Will Lester calculated the impact that kind of money would have on armoring Humvees in Iraq, helping victims of the tsunami, or paying down the deficit. Lester thought the party should be cancelled: “The questions have come from Bush supporters and opponents: Do we need to spend this money on what seems so extravagant?”
Fast forward to 2009. The nation is at war (two wars, in fact), and now also faces the prospect of a severe recession and federal budget deficits topping $1 trillion as far as the eye can see. With Barack Obama’s inauguration estimated to cost $45 million (not counting the millions more that government will have to pay for security), is the Associated Press once again tsk-tsking the high collar cost?
Nope. “For inaugural balls, go for glitz, forget economy,” a Tuesday AP headline advised.
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The media can be counted on to be a collective group of press secretaries for Obozo and Congressional Democrats.
Behold media and Liberal hypocrites. No smoke and mirrors here; just their obvious lies and deceit.
How much longer can we survive with a corrupt press monopoly?
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The double-standard of the MSM is astounding...and what really is amazing is how these comparisons run off of them like water on a duck’s back.
They are going to keep a double-standard and they don’t care what anybody else thinks about it.
There is a reason that the founders put the freedom of the press Number 1 on the list of amendments. And what is happening now is the reason that they put the right to bear arms at Number 2.
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Of course - example, don’t forget that Chris Matthews recently said that he would do everything in his power to aid in Obama’s success and a little while ago, NPR said it was, I believe, their duty to do the same.
The monopoly of AP needs to be busted up big time. Libtards!
“The monopoly of AP needs to be busted up big time. Libtards!”
File lawsuits against them and place citizen arrests on AP stringers for sedition.
Use the RATS playbook against them.
That’s how Reagan beat the Soviets.
I’d like to see every GOP and every conservative media outlet and mouthpiece force this inaugural excess to become a big, smelly issue.
Good observation.................................
WHERE ARE THE ELECTED PUBBIES.....POINTING THIS OUT!!!!????
Good summary.
Bush declares a 'state of emergency' as cost of Obama's swearing-in ceremony soars to $161 million
The socialist agenda was to infiltrate media and education, and they’ve succeeded quite well.
I heard today that it is closer to $150 million
If it weren’t for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.
How in the world can Obama be spending 4 times the amount Bush spent just 4 years later?
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