CBS Still Claiming Obama's 'You Didn't Build That' Was About Infrastructure

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Incredible. CBS News has an anti-Romney "fact check" article up this morning supposedly debunking statements made by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan during yesterday's introduction of the veep pick. At the end, CBS actually snuck in the hyper-partisan, DNC-talking-point assertion that it was "clear" that when President Obama utttered his infamous "you didn't build that," he was talking about "teachers and infrastructure."

CBS claims that in criticizing "you didn't build that," Republicans "seized on only part of Obama's quote." In fact, it is CBS itself that edited out another, most telling, part of Obama's comments. The network omitted the following Obama lines which make irretrievably clear that he was indeed disparaging the achievements of entrepreneurs.

[Political Junkie Too]

Does this mean that the failure of Solyndra was I-880's fault?

-PJ

[dfwgator]

Obama told Jefferson Starship that in fact, they did not “Build This City.”

[eyedigress]

Hey Columbia Broadcasting System, you didn’t build that. Shut the fudge up!

[Vaduz]

Save Detroit kill a Prius.

[Tau Food]

Obama is a liar. Everyone knows exactly what he meant.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"Those guys with all the money think they're hot sh** 'cause they think they've worked so hard and started some business. Big Whup. Lots of people are smart and work hard but The Man been screwing 'em out of their fair share. Stick with me...I'll grab their money and give it to you...we're going to spread it all around and even things out".

Well done. An expert translation of what Obama is really saying to his followers, but the media and Beltway punditocracy refuse to hear.

[okie01]

...but the media and Beltway punditocracy refuse to hear.

Do they "refuse to hear"?

Or do they actually agree with it? Believing that they are immune?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

[Vaduz]

True

[<1/1,000,000th%]

CBS doesn’t report news.

[Morpheus2009]

There are plenty of people who fail, but don’t quit because of their initial failure, does anyone remember that Walt Disney had loads of failures for the actual successes he made? There’s plenty of more stories. In fact, I did better in college than plenty of people who could either 1) Beat me royally in chess, or 2) Flat-out knew plenty more information and facts in my field than I did. But guess what, I was by far exceptional to plenty of people in either of those categories due to sheer willpower to work and get things done. I still had my own flaws, sure, but a person who is unwilling to simply give up because of a few failures can be dangerous, extreme stupidity aside.