The Real Problem

Friday 10 August 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

The real problem isn’t Obama and his craptastic policies of killing Americans on his authority alone, or killings thousands of innocents in his drone campaign, or co-opting and extending many of the absurd Bush policies. It’s the media and their so-called balanced coverage of events. Reuters:

President Barack Obama, like many of us, dislikes much of what he drinks from the news spigot. As the New York Times reported this week:

Privately and publicly, Mr. Obama has articulated what he sees as two overarching problems: coverage that focuses on political winners and losers rather than substance; and a “false balance,” in which two opposing sides are given equal weight regardless of the facts.

Before I continue, I’ll give you just a moment to guess which of the two opposing sides the president thinks is being given “equal weight” but does not deserve it. Need a little more time? Just another second? O.K.…time’s up! The president thinks the press is allowing his unworthy, mendacious Republican opponents to nullify the truths he speaks from the Oval Office. Obama has expressed these views in meetings with columnists on both the left and the right, according to the Times. It peeves him when reporters give equal weight to both sides when one side is factually incorrect and when they blame both parties when one party is to blame. Obama’s specific beef, it seems, is coverage of health insurance legislation and the stimulus package.

Anyone who actually believes that the media (in general) doesn’t already give Obama the benefit of the doubt in nearly every circumstance simply isn’t paying attention. Anyone who believes that the media (in general) has a decided slant against Obama is nothing but a state apologist.

2012-08-10  »  madlibertarianguy