CNN.com's Breaking News Bias on 'Cut, Cap and Balance' Rejection by Senate
As soon as the Senate rejected the "Cut, Cap and Balance" plan, CNN.com shot out a biased Breaking News alert to e-mail subscribers that labeled the measure as one "favored by hard-line conservative [sic]" (screen capture attached below page break):
The Senate votes 51 to 46 to table the "cut, cap and balance" bill passed earlier this week by the House, which would have imposed strict caps on all future federal spending while making it significantly tougher to raise taxes.
The House passed the measure on Tuesday, mostly along party lines. President Barack Obama said he would veto such a measure, favored by hard-line conservative, and Democrats in the Senate had said they would kill it if it passes the House.
You'll notice, of course, no mention that CNN's own poll shows nearly 2/3rds of Americans favor "Cut, Cap and Balance" and that some 74 percent want some sort of federal balanced budget amendment sent to the states for ratification.
One has to wonder if CNN thinks nearly 3/4ths of Americans are hardliners too.
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The Democrats are doing us
Submitted by jkwtrading on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:19am.
The Democrats are doing us all a favor... they are showing once and for all they want at all costs our money for themselves.
Even the people who never pay attention to this stuff will soon pay attention. the masses will move to the right..
Not only that
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:21pm.
An article in the New York Times illustrates quite nicely how the Republicans are interested in the American people whereas the Democrats are interested only in political advantage.
Many Republicans oppose abandoning the party’s no-compromise stand against any new taxes, while many Democrats fear a “grand bargain” will undercut their party’s ability in the 2012 campaigns to use Republicans’ support of deep cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security against them.
If I were in the House I
Submitted by jkwtrading on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:48pm.
If I were in the House I would now propose a bill even nastier than the one they voted against..each time the senate votes against the bill, give them another one even harder.
Which R
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:24am.
didn't vote or voted against?
[Edit] Never mind. McCain didn't vote. Here's the roll call.
Sounds like they voted not to
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:30am.
Sounds like they voted not to vote on it.
Yes, they voted not to vote on the plan.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:37am.
!
And for at least the third
Submitted by Satchmo on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:55am.
And for at least the third time now, NB does not discuss the content of the bill. I do agree with the highlighting of hard-line conservatives, because it wasn't hard-line conservatives who supported the bill. How anyone could be in favor of raising the debt ceiling and be described as a hard-line conservative is beyond me.
Satchmo = Sissy Troll
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 12:19pm.
Ignore this troll that accuses others of lying over and over without ever providing the first shred of proof.
This troll is only here to raise bile. Don't fall for it.
They're "discussing" the CNN article
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:43pm.
This may have escaped your attention, three times running, but the focus of the NB article is what is in the CNN article and NOT on the contents of the bill itself. That CNN article, by the way, doesn't mention what's actually IN THE BILL! If you have a complaint, bright it up to CNN.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
The Communist News Network
Submitted by Bodini on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 12:01pm.
The Communist News Network once again reveals why they are on their way to extinction!
Democrats voted for tax and spend! Again!
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 12:32pm.
Every single Democrat who voted today (except Lurch Kerry and Kirsten Gillibrand, who were absent) voted to keep the status quo. In other words, tax & spend! Even if the missing three (McCain didn't vote because he was to speak at a friend's funeral) did vote, it still would have made no difference. The Democrats are hopeless, completely hopeless.
Here's more proof of the bias pointed out above
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 12:45pm.
in the "Media Mash" blogpost.
President Barack Obama said he would veto such a measure, favored by hard-line conservative, [sic] and Democrats in the Senate had said they would kill it if it passes the House. -CNN
Even though 66% of Americans want it, they still paint it as a hard-line conservative position.
If I were to find out that.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:04pm.
.....66% of Americans were "hard-line conservative[s]", that'd be fine with me. :-)
If this idiot Obama is
Submitted by rbosque on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:09pm.
If this idiot Obama is serious about fixing the economy, he can start by not relying on crony capitalism, with its government-business-labor partnership monopolies, and his continued out-of-control fiscal policies. It's the gov't that's causing real problems with the economy by interfering with it.
Right down party lines
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:55pm.
.......which tells me there is not one Democrat in the Senate who favors Congressional fiscal accountability to the American people.
That of course includes the two duncecaps from VA.......Warner and Webb, who once again have looked at Virginians and said "screw all of you."
There may be hope yet!
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:02pm.
Don't despair yet...Jim Webb is, after all, retiring in 2012!
Yes
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:43pm.
...but that's of no consolation right now.
And we'll end up with Timmy Kaine, or George Allen. Of course Allen is better than Kaine, but who knows what we would actually get.
Oh wow...
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 10:12am.
If you Virginians elect a moron such as Tim Kaine, especially with his record as Governor and DNC Chair, you'll be in b-i-g trouble...
Once again....
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 12:13pm.
..and election to vote against someone, not for someone. Kaine is a nightmare. Allen is........well that depends on the wind direction.
Since 66 percent of americans
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:57pm.
Since 66 percent of americans support CC&B, I guess we are a nation of overwhelming right wing conservatives.
More CNN-perceived hardliners...
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:56pm.
http://www.shadesofgrace.org/wp-content/uploads/founding-fathers.jpg
Self-Disenfranchisement
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:24pm.
You might have a right to, but you have no business voting on how to spend other people's money if you do not pay federal income tax. Do the decent thing and just don't go to the polls.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Totally agree.
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:54pm.
Everyone has a right to vote, but very few understand they have a responsibility, both in what you said and a responsibility to be informed before voting.
Voting Against The Will Of The People
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:26pm.
Democrats and RINOs are making a habit of it. Their lists of political enemies must surely be growing. The primaries and November 2012 general election will be the score card.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
This is why they don't deserve the name "Democratic" party.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 9:58pm.
If at least 66% of people want something, and you block it's passage, you can no longer call yourself democratic. As I've been saying since the passage of Obamacare, there is nothing democratic about the 'Democratic' Party.
In the interest of honesty, I'd recommend a name change. Perhaps the Authoritarian Statist Socialist Party? They could even keep their mascot.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.