I know it's accepted by now that the MSM group will label any conservative group, "conservative," any libertarian group, "conservative," and any liberal group, "left-leaning" or "centrist," when they bother to label them at all. But when a new one comes along, it's good to put both that group's leanings, and the MSM's failure to note them, on the record.
The Denver Post recently ran a story about small business's internal divide over health care "reform." In it, this:
Despite those fears, a study from the nonprofit Small Business Majority found health reform, even with a mandate, would save small business more than $500 billion over the next decade.
"Should everybody be in?" asked Elisabeth Arenales, an analyst with the Colorado Center on Law and Policy. "What's the contribution of the business sector? Businesses stand to gain a lot from health-insurance reform."
The CCLP may be talking about small business, but that doesn't mean it's speaking for small business. Far from it.
As for the Small Business Majority, it's definitely a "left-leaning" advocacy group, with a pretty typical pedigree for such recent endeavors. Founded by a liberal Silicon Valley dot-com boomer, (he's given exclusively to Democrats and Democrat causes), the group boasts that it, "works with the White House to organize policy discussions that focus on small business issues." It's an advocate of greater government involvement in health care, and appears to have been founded specifically in order to promote that goal. It examines reform proposals, but only those that increase government involvement.
There's nothing necessarily the matter with this. Most groups claim to be "unbiased." But only a biased paper would accept such claims at face value.




















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Mon, 08/31/2009 - 09:31 ET by candanceWhen I'm reading anything from the MSM and they quote an "expert" or a "research group" that's labeled anything except conservie, I automatically assume they found a liberal.
Known Bias
Mon, 08/31/2009 - 09:58 ET by BlueCat57I forget which "news" magazine I used to read regularly in the 80's before I found Insight (conservative, but owned by the Moonies).
I do remember that I picked between Time and Newsweek because I was able to figure out the bias of one easier than the bias of the other.
A known bias allows one to read by putting on "bias filtering" glasses and to glean some news from each issue.
I've been reading The Economist lately. It took a few issues but I was finally able to develop "bias filtering" glasses for it. They believe that government is the answer to all problems with some "free" market help. The main benefit of reading The Economist is that they have articles on issues from around the world. And while it is only slightly better than US magazines and newspapers, at least it provides exposure and perspective to issues outside America. The British at least haven't completely forgotten what it means to be a journalist.
Typical ploy by the left...
Mon, 08/31/2009 - 10:07 ET by retroconCreate a group with a name that sounds like an advocacy group for a segment of the population who would normally oppose a policy, and then support the policy.
They invented a shooting and sports organization to back Obama in 2008 and show him to be "pro-second amendment."
Now it's a group "representing " small businesses, supporting more taxes... yeah, right ;-)
They only report one side of the equation...
Mon, 08/31/2009 - 10:10 ET by c5thenThey fail to report that the CBO says that it will take $1 trillion (or more) out of the GDP in order to "acheive" these so-called savings.
So, as a country, is it worth it to spend $1 trillion over 10 years to maybe "save" $500 billion? And that doesn't even go into the historical estimates for any number of other programs that almost guarentee that the cost will be double and the "savings" will be half or less of the current estimates.
Throw 'da bums out!
no incumbent re-elected, with very few exceptions!
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Denver Post?
Mon, 08/31/2009 - 11:20 ET by Patriot III guess the Denver Post didn't learn anything when the Rocky Mountain news flopped! Be liberal....be gone! Try telling the truth, get off the socialist crap.......start with telling what a crock this healthcare bill is and what its really about....the TOTAL control of people and their lives!!!
Corruption
Mon, 08/31/2009 - 11:26 ET by slickwillie2001The liberals have worked quietly and stealthily for decades to take over organizations like the AMA, AARP, and it appears the Small Business Majority as well. These efforts are now bearing fruit. Conservatives need a plan to counter these efforts to corrupt representative organizations.