OUR PIRATE-IN-CHIEF IS "MOVING ON UP"
FROM PIRATE SHIPS, UP TO SPREADING HIS WINGS,
BEYOND AIR FORCE ONE
What can he do next ... Rise in Three Days?
YES HE CAN
OBAMA CAN FLY, AND FLY HIGH!
Posted on 04/29/2009 12:05:29 AM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
President Barack Obama has put forward policies representing the most radical government intervention in the free market in American history, with more proposals for even greater government interference on the way. But according to the Media Research Center (MRC), during Obama’s first 100 days in office the media have steadfastly refused to report this. In fact, rather than challenging the President’s radical policies, network news reporters have often celebrated Obama’s radical agenda.
MRC analysts examined all 852 stories on the Obama administration from January 20 through April 15 on ABC’s World News, the CBS Evening News and the NBC Nightly News. We will publish a detailed report on coverage of Obama’s first 100 days (ending April 29) in May. The trends, however, are evident.
Among the key findings thus far:
Sanitizing Obama’s Socialist Agenda
None of the three broadcast network aired a single story focused on whether President Obama’s economic policies were driving the U.S. towards European-style socialism.
Not a single network news reporter used the term “socialist” to describe how Obama’s policies are shifting economic authority to the federal government, away from the free market. On only four occasions was the word “socialist” used on-camera at all – all by outside sources, once by a random man-on-the-street.
Obama is not a “Liberal,” Either
Amazingly, network reporters never called Obama or his agenda even “liberal.” NBC and CBS never used the word, and ABC only aired the term twice, citing Republicans using the word “liberal” to describe Obama’s policies.
No Conservatives Allowed. On three of Obama’s major economic policies and plans - his banking bailout, his auto bailout and his plans for universal health care - the networks never had a single sound bite from a conservative or a free market expert.
One out of four bank bailout stories (17 of 74) discussed the concept of outright government bank nationalization. In only two was a free market person allowed to rebut.
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell commented:
For the pro-Obama liberal media, the Obama honeymoon is nowhere near over. His is the most radical agenda ever presented to the American people. It is a socialist agenda. Why won’t the media – accurately – label him a socialist? Why do they refuse even to label him a “liberal”? Because they are completely in the tank, working overtime to help him succeed.
The liberal media’s dedicated defense of Obama knows no bounds. Reporting his bank bailout, his auto bailout and his socialist health care plan without including any conservative or free market voices is not the work of real journalists, but it certainly is a labor of love.
The liberal media deserve the Tammy Wynette Award for their coverage of Obama’s radical agenda, as they continue to devotedly stand by their man.
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The Media Research Center investigates media bias at: www.mrc.org.
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copy/paste, its early.
When this love affair ends it will be ugly.
ONE HUNDRED DAYS
Tune: "Five Hundred Miles"
If you turn the TV on, you can watch the networks fawn
They all cheer Obama's gone a hundred days
A hundred days, a hundred days, a hundred days, a hundred days
They all cheer Obama's gone a hundred days
Lord, we're one, Lord, we're two, Lord, we're three, Lord, we're four
Lord, we're five trillion dollars in the hole
We're in the hole, we're in the hole, we're in the hole, we're in the hole
Lord, we're nine trillion dollars in the hole
Not a tax we will lack, got a target on my back
Lord, I can't afford Obama's kind of change
Keep the change, keep the change, keep the change, keep the change
Lord, I can't afford Obama's kind of change
If you like these hundred days and you sing Obama's praise
Then I fear your feeble brain is in a daze
You're in a daze, you're in a daze, you're in a daze, you're in a daze
Then I fear your feeble brain is in a daze
Then I fear your feeble brain is in a daze
excellent...
You may be right in calling him the "false messiah". Go to the post titled: Why Barack Obama chose the cities in Germany and Colorado to give his speeches, and you'll understand what I mean.
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