MRC’s Bozell on Gas: Prices Will Continue to ‘Escalate,’ Media Will ‘Downplay’
MRC President and Newsbusters publisher Brent Bozell predicted on Feb. 23 that gas prices will keep climbing and the media will keep downplaying that fact to help President Barack Obama.
“The prices are going to continue to escalate and the media are gonna continue to downplay it. This is the kind of story they don't want to cover. It goes against the narrative of the 2012 election and they're gonna do everything they can to get this guy elected. Period,” Bozell said on “Your World with Neil Cavuto.”
His prediction was based on the way the networks have been coverage the story of rising gas prices. “It’s broken record time,” Bozell told Cavuto. Bozell was discussing the double standard of gas price coverage under President George W. Bush compared to Obama.
Bozell explained, “Think about this: when the prices in 2008, when the price of gas hit $3.56-a-gallon, which was you know sky-high for George Bush, in the preceding month there were 97 network news stories. When the gas prices hit $3.56 under Barack Obama, which was Feb. 20, you look at the preceding month there were 21 stories."
Those numbers came from a recent MRC’s Business & Media Institute analysis. BMI also noted a difference in tone of gas prices stories in 2008 compared to 2012. Dismal 2008 reports about “skyrocketing” gas prices included footage of gas lines and talk about the “tough choices” people had to make between food and fuel. Cavuto aired several clips of 2008 coverage to start the segment.
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$10 Gas
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:00pm.
I would gladly pay $10 a gallon for gas if that is what it will take to get Obama out of office. Consider it a campaign contribution.
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
Algae, bowboy,
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:19pm.
He's got it down to one word...
Back in 2007 it's been started, money pit..
Shell declined to say how much it was investing in the project. Environmentalists have accused oil companies of using such projects, always eagerly publicised, to burnish their green credentials when they are really just small gestures that receive a paltry fraction of the billions of industry profits. Last month, Shell invested in Codexis, an American company researching catalysts to aid biofuel production.
Carter-2 however two stewpid to pull a Reagan...
You Didn't Build That.
The algae thing is just a
Submitted by celator on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:54pm.
The algae thing is just a head fake. It's not well known, but Obama has been secretly working on a scientific research project to turn arugula into fuel oil. Michelle bought him a whiz bang chemistry set for his 50th birthday, and he spends a lot of time in the WH basement working on the project. Looks like another Nobel Prize is in store for the dude in the near future.
http://www.funiqtoys.com/first-chemistry.html
So True
Submitted by tcm14 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:32pm.
One of my friends on Facebook posted a link to a Time feature about why Presidents don't have control over gas prices and I thought, 'That about sums it up.'
High gas prices under Bush and we got, "What is he going to do, OMG WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO???!!!!" Under Obama, it's "Meh, not his fault, nothing he can do about it."
Not really
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:41pm.
Just saw a segment on this, and guess what. I was not the fault of the President, or the economy, as it was in 07-08.
Oh no, it's the fault of the big, greedy oil companies.
In case no one
Submitted by nolefan2 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 8:30pm.
has figured it out, Obama is not to blame for anything that happens......at least that is what the mainstream media would have us believe. He is a master at playing "The Blame Game." He reminds me of the old Bob Dylan song....."It Ain't Me, Babe."
Don't Matter What The MSM Does Or Does Not Say
Submitted by Rikki_Doxx on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 8:31pm.
It doesn't matter whether or not the MSM will cover the rising gas prices. We'll see it at the pumps!!!!! When Obama bin Insane took over the gas price was $1.57/gal. The media went nuts on Bush when it went to $3.00
Ears to America: Let 'em eat bus fumes!
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 8:56pm.
With gas prices threatening to go up even higher (do I hear $10 a gallon?), Ears and his toadies, both inside and outside the media, are giving Americans one gigantic finger. They're blaming everyone from Mr. Bush to Wall Street, forgetting conveniently that their toadying to environmentalists and Soros-linked organizations, as well as pushing taxes up the wazoo, are major factors in the gas price spike. It's as though Ears & Co. are saying: Let 'em eat bus fumes!
Cause and EFFECT*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 9:30pm.
The media can refuse to look at the real causes of the rise in price of gasoline. But, there will soon come a time when they will not be able to ignore the consequences of those rising prices.
It takes fuel to move food products around the country. It takes fuel to make electricity. Thousands of ordinary products are made from petroleum. When the price of everything you need or buy goes up as well as gasoline, then maybe we will finally get someone's attention. If not the media, then hopefully, the voters.
Actually Cajun
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 9:55pm.
I've been seeing a lot of inflation already. I believe the government is playing with what is included in the CPI to mislead the public. However, those of us who shop for food on a regular basis, and other staples, know the truth. We are already in high inflation.
Exactly Ms Rad*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:27pm.
And just to add, the states that draw revenue from the oil industry has been hurt as well. Tx, La , Miss, Alaska, as well as other states in the far west. The loss of revenue will become a burden to the tax payers in each of those states. Notice, the states hit the hardest by Obama's energy policy are all R states....hmmm
Caj
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:46pm.
Oh I well remember when he withdrew permits from some places in Alaska, like Bristol Bay. Obama is a petty little man who refuses to think of the good of the country. No coincidences on the states getting hit...
Wanna rephrase that?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 1:47am.
This guy's a hard core Marxist through and through, there's no "refusing to think of the good of the country" with him. It never entered in the picture in the first place and this was evidenced by his "redistribution of wealth" comment when he first came on the national tv scene with Joe the Plumber.
Remember, even his energy council balked at the things he was doing, like the Pipeline fiasco.
No, just from his statements alone(algae???) today, he's hell bent on destroying this country economically and he's doing a terrific job on that. Sadly people will STILL think he's incompetent when this is proof positive that it's intentional(even though we knew it would happen YEARS ago).
-Jon
Jon
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 10:19am.
Obama clearly has the world view that the U.S. needs to brought down. If you haven't read "the Roots of Obams Rage". It's laid out quite clearly in that book.
groceries and inflation
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 1:51am.
Going to the local HEB stores, I've been seeing a LOT more coupon usage than ever before, especially from some of the locals I know that typically don't use them. And the same store is putting out even MORE in-house coupon deals, used to be some select items at random/special times, now it's more items all the time.
Gotta give that company kudos for trying to help their customers out.
-Jon
Hell, Jon
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 7:41am.
I you're near SA, you've probably had to wait behind me while I fumble through mine.
The thing I don't like about HEB and Was-Mart basically being the only grocery stores around, is the deals on the private label stuff. Makes it harder to double the effect of the coupons by finding sales on name brands and combining them with coupons from the Sunday circulars.
I like HEB, especially the Central Markets, (when I've been good, the wife lets me go to the one on Broadway here), but if food keeps going up like this, it may by La Fiesta for me. :)