We all knew that the Republicans would be blamed for any shutdown. We knew this.
James Harrison at nooga.com
But somehow, the actual reality of this deliberate slander still is shocking.
- Newsbusters reports on ABC’s Diane Sawyer:
Monday night’s edition of ABC World News was a double dose of advocacy as Diane Sawyer and her team essentially served as a mouthpiece for President Obama’s position on the government shutdown and his health care law. Read more….
- Larry O’Connor at Breitbart.com reports on shutdown propaganda from the AP. From the story “SHUTDOWN PROPAGANDA: AP’S FURLOUGHED ‘EPA WORKER’ REALLY GOV’T UNION BOSS“:
It appears the Associated Press has either been duped by a partisan government union big-wig pretending to be a beleaguered government employee facing furlough due to a government shutdown, or they knew he was an activist and withheld the information from their readers. Read more….
- John Nolte of Breitbart.com documented the facts that the media chose to ignore in his LIVE BLOG: MEDIA COVERAGE OF GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
Last week, as the prospect of a federal government shutdown loomed as reality, the President of the United States told the media that he would “not negotiate” with “house burners.” And with that, the American mainstream media threw away their longstanding belief in “civil bipartisan compromise” in order to stand with Obama. Read more...
- Matt Hadro of Newsbusters reports on Politico’s Roger Simon’s blame game : ‘Extreme Right-Wing’ Is Taking the GOP ‘Hostage”
“The extreme right-wing of the Republican Party has taken that party hostage, at least in the House of Representatives,” Simon ranted. He summarized their current position on the shutdown: “[W]e would rather shut down the government than extend health care to 11 million people. Read more…
- Huffington is always on the lunatic fringe of the hate-mongering so it’s almost superfluous to include them, but hey – it’s the world we live in:
yep.
And in response to my quoting John Boehner, this:
For more from HuffPo, check out their FB page. But be sure to pull on your waders and have hand sanitizer and your favorite beverage handy.
Imagine, just for a moment, honest media.
**UPDATE from October 9**
- Geoffrey Dickens at MRC compiled this list of horrors: The Top 8 Nastiest Liberal Media Quotes Blaming the GOP for the Shutdown
The liberal media have taken sides in the government shutdown debate and not surprisingly holds only one party to blame – the GOP. In the last week liberal anchors, reporters and writers have depicted fiscal conservatives in terms usually reserved for terrorists as they’ve hyperbolically charged that Republicans were being run by a “suicide caucus” that is holding America “hostage.” Read more….