Liberal Media Boost Buffett and Obama's Attack on the Rich
Barack Obama’s invitation to Warren Buffett’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek, to tonight’s State of the Union Address is bound to please not only Bosanek’s boss but also the liberal media that has allied with Buffett in his mission to raise taxes on the rich. For over 10 years the Berkshire Hathaway CEO has campaigned to sop the wealthy with burdensome taxes, and his friends in the media have been all too willing to advance his myth that secretaries pay more in taxes than their boss.
The following articles from the MRC’s archive represent just a few of the more recent and obnoxious examples of Buffett and Obama’s friends in the media carrying water for their crusade to soak America’s job creators:
NPR, CBS Play Up Romney's 'Provocative' Warren Buffett Tax Rate
ABC Trumpets 'Fairness' of Obama's 'Buffett Rule' Tax Hike Quest
Buttressing Buffett: For 10 Years, the Liberal Media Championed Billionaire's Tax Increase Agenda
Networks Embrace Buffett's Call for Higher Taxes on 'Mega-Rich,' ABC Salivates Over Spending It
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Here's another juicy bit of info.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 6:21pm.
That little, sweet old grey-haired son of a bitch is happy as hell to see the pipeline killed.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=49036
Anybody still doubt that the RBFSOB is really a Fascist?
Meanwhile . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 6:32pm.
His Berkshire Hathaway is fighting the IRS in court to prevent paying $1 billion that the IRS claims B-H owes for the years 2002-2009, costing the US taxpayers $ millions in trial expenses.
Buffett is a hypocritical ass, but the President loves him because Warren doesn't think he's paying his fair share.
Obama <3 Buffet
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 6:45pm.
They speak the same language. Apply the rules to everyone else, hold yourself far, far, above them.
POS's both of 'em.
Like I said.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 7:05pm.
True Fascists, including George Soros, the puppet master.
Something has to give.
Ole Georgie is betting on the Occutards.
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 9:37pm.
Picked up on this at This Ain't Hell today. Also, the "flier" sent out by the "Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign". They plan on "Occupying" the RNC, but it looks like they'll give the dems, who control the WH and Senate, a pass. Is that surprising?
Seems that Georgie boy will be more than happy to see his Occutards set fires, break windows and burn buildings this summer. While he hides out in Switzerland or Monaco, probably.
That is after all
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:32pm.
the definition of elite.
Obama's favorite billionaire
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 6:28pm.
Warren Buffett starring in Robin Hood: Billionaires in Tights.
Obama is bound to end up on one or more boards of Berkshire Hathaway when his Presidency is over (hopefully January 20, 2013).
Shouldn't o'barry soetoro simply....
Submitted by USMC8411 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 6:42pm.
lower the tax rates on secretaries, and the rest of those who earn INCOME and who do not survive on dividends and capital gains, to below 15% while jacking up the rate for the "rich" like WB?
Wait, still holding my breath for the sea level promise!
Anyone in the media dare ask o'barry what Buffet's "fair share" is? Please put a number on it!
Here's My Solution To The Buffet Mania By Liberals
Submitted by Bourbeau on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 6:55pm.
1. Warren Buffet if you can't give your secretary a raise, or even better, pay her taxes, then shut the hell up.
2. If Buffet feels so sorry for the US Goverment he has all the tools he needs to make a donation to the
U.S. Treasury - write the damn check.
3. And lastly, where the hell is a few good old US Executives to corner Bufet in a men's room a give him a
good old fashion bathroom knuckle job.
Easy on Buffett!
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:01pm.
The poor guy just wants to raise barriers to entry for others so that he can entrench himself! What can be so wrong with that?
:)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Well well GE makes locomotives. Such a win win...
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 7:30pm.
Are they going to bury the unsightly rail lines like they do with pipelines?
You Didn't Build That.
Oh no, Up.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:11pm.
Buffett is going to make a (nother) fortune hauling oil on his trains from Canada to Texas! See article above.
Is this a great country or what?!?
Yep,
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 8:20pm.
Billionairs that support Obama will be subsidized by the American people, weather we like it or not
Buffett to gov't: "Please entrench me as an aristocrat"
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 9:16pm.
Buffett and his buddies don't want to have to deal with the prospect of icky people moving in next door so they are begging the government to entrench him by punishing those who are even moderately successful with higher taxes.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Do not be troubled ...
Submitted by NL207 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 9:34pm.
In a few short years, Warren Buffet will indeed be 'entrenched'.
The Sleep Of No Dreaming
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:01pm.
I think we are talking about two types of "entrenchment", but I get your point.
:)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
what will happen ...
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 9:15pm.
With the liberal media, both before and after the SOTU(should be telling him to STFU but wishful thinking), we're going to see a whole lotta frottage when it's all said and done.
-Jon
Obama's Class Warfare--Mission Accomplished?
Submitted by berlet98 on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 2:28am.
Obama's Class Warfare--Mission Accomplished?
Anyone who has closely or even cursorily followed the actions, declarations, and proposals of candidate Barack Hussein Obama and the enacted socio-economic policies of the Obama presidency has to be aware that he represents the greatest threat to domestic and international tranquility in the history of the United States.
Obama’s slip-of-the-lip to Joe the Plumber in 2008 that his intent was to “share the wealth” should have alerted Americans to his radical Marxist inclinations, but it didn’t.
His repeated statements pitting rich against the poor, the haves against those who haven’t, should have informed the electorate that he was launching class warfare, but they didn’t.
His Justice Department’s black racist decisions and his demeaning of white Americans should have shown he was fostering racial antagonisms and pitting race against race, but they didn’t.
His foisting of Obamacare on the American people, a socialistic scheme designed to kill off the sick and elderly patterned on Britain’s failed NHS, should have proven he was far more committed to his legacy than to the well-being of Americans, but it didn’t.
His enthusiastic support for the revolutionist Occupy movement intent on subverting the capitalist system that has made America great should have been a giveaway that Obama wasn’t a real American, but it didn’t.
None of that evidence was sufficient to convince Obama idolators who still mindlessly subscribed to their illusion of Barack was their dream rather than what he is, a nightmare and a fraud.
The president’s designated apologist, Press Secretary Jay Carney, was hit with an easy question at his Monday press briefing, a simple query as to whether a picture of Saul Alinsky hangs in the White House. The reporter was motivated to ask since Newt Gingrich has reasonably claimed Obama’s vision comes from the man who coined the term, “community organizer,” Saul David Alinsky.
Amid titters, Carney scoffed, waffled, defended his boss’s background as a Chicago “community organizer,” and replied without answering the qustion, ”I’ll just leave it at that.”
See Carney dance around Saul Alinsky here http://bit.ly/y0KKJn.
I doubt there’s a framed portrait of Alinsky in the executive mansion. There would be no need since Alinsky extremist socialism is firmly embedded in this president’s psyche and philosophy so who needs a picture?
Alinsky never became a registered Communist. He was so full of chutzpa that he refused to be bound by Communism’s “doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated” rigidity. Instead, he blazed his own trail of doctrinaire, humorless, intellectually constipated independence that served to supplement Communism’s and which, if anything, was more radical.
He virtually invented the job of community organizer, a euphemism for a rabble-rouser engaged in stirring social discontent and societal revolution and developed that profession on the streets of Chicago, the same streets on which his disciple Obama later practiced Alinskyite tactics.
As Linn and Ari Armstrong noted, “Beneath his [Alinsky's] platitudes about democracy and the ‘importance and worth in the individual,’ Alinsky reveals his core goal: to ‘use power for a more equitable distribution of the means of life for all people.’ “
Sound familiar? It should because Obama said much the same thing when he told Joe the Plumber that his aim was to “spread the wealth around” through political force.
In another relevant observation, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12244.)