Shocking AP Headline: 'Obama Disconnects Rhetoric, Reality'
Many right-thinking Americans have been wondering when Obama-loving news outlets would notice that even Democrats don't support the president's new jobs bill.
On Monday, the truth came from a surprising source - the Associated Press:
In President Barack Obama's sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two versions of reality: The one in his speeches and the one actually unfolding in Washington.
When Obama accuses Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignores the fact that his own party has struggled to unite behind the proposal.
When the president says Republicans haven't explained what they oppose in the plan, he skips over the fact that Republicans who control the House actually have done that in detail.
And when he calls on Congress to "pass this bill now," he slides past the point that Democrats control the Senate and were never prepared to move immediately, given other priorities. Senators are expected to vote Tuesday on opening debate on the bill, a month after the president unveiled it with a call for its immediate passage.
Yes, those paragraphs are really from an AP piece. So's this one:
For example, when Obama says his jobs plan is made up of ideas that have historically had bipartisan support, he stops the point there. Not mentioned is that Republicans have never embraced the tax increases that he is proposing to cover the cost of his plan.
So Obama has been less than honest concerning this matter. If only his supporters at most of the other news outlets would notice and share the inconvenient truth as the AP did.
As an interesting sidebar, when this piece was originally published, NewsBusters member Bob Keyser observed the following at the end of the article: "EDITOR'S NOTE _ An occasional look behind the rhetoric of public officials."
As you can see in the PDF he sent me of the piece, this was there as of 9:28 AM. Now it's not.
I wonder if the editor realized he or she was divulging too much about the rarity of such honesty.
Hmmm.
*****Update: The Washington Post published this AP piece with the editor's note. That means the folks at Yahoo decided to remove it. Nice!
- Noel Sheppard's blog
- Login to post comments
Comments
Finally
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:37am.
So now the mainstream Liberal Press has finally reached their tolerance limit for lunacy? Wahappen?
You can not ignore Sarah Palin
Submitted by JamesPhilip on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:48am.
Since this site has chosen to ignore the speech Sarah Palin gave on Friday....
I submit a video you should watch. This is what I consider to be one of, if not the best, speech that Sarah Palin has ever given.
Question... after you watch it, do you really think any of the Republican candidates could or would be able to make a similar speech? That is why she is not running. She has a more important mission.... to attack the entire corrupt political system and to promote Conservative principles.
Sarah Palin Unshackled - Defending the Republic - http://tinyurl.com/6bdpfvz
The problem is that the Vichy Press cannot handle truth.
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:16am.
Leaders like Palin and Cain and Santorum will always be shouted down and marginalizeduntil such time as the working "People" rise up and slap down the rabble and assert their authority.
Methinks they're hoping no
Submitted by kareling on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:58am.
Methinks they're hoping no one will notice the article because everyone is distracted by the Occupy mobs.
Bambi is coming unglued.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:59am.
Here is a link to a similar article in the New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/aimless_obama_walks_alone_OUgoMTkORRJ...
Like all communist/Fascist/wacko dictators (or wannabe dictators in Bambi's case), Da One is coming unhinged. It happens to all of them sooner or later. Thank God it happened to this RBFPOS in time for us to correct the biggest mistake in the history of the Republic in the upcoming election. I'm only wondering how much more damage he can cause in the next few months.
It is time for at least a hand full of patriotic Democrats who actually believe in our system of government to step up publicly and call Bull Shiite on this sorry excuse of a president.
It does no good for conservatives to hammer him, because the MSM calls it "just politics." We need a real liberal, hopefully a sane one if he or she can be found anymore, to step out and help save this country from any more destruction from this joke that a majority of voters elected. How sad is that?
I saw this little article by
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:20pm.
I saw this little article by AP yesterday - I was kind of amazed at what it said..........and the fact that it made it to print, small as it was!!! I'm sure that they will be getting woodsheded soon, or at least tried to.........I've said all along that if the press turns on Boy Barry, he really will be toast - because they were complicit in the big scam, so it's going to take a complete collapse in their own opinion to finally stop covering for him. I don't see it yet - but I do see more and more small shreds of it.
Hey................a thousands small cuts can do him in just as well as one big hack, right???
Agents
Submitted by Granite on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:00am.
The media has served Obama as the biggest best paid Public Relations firm in history that hopefully will never be seen again in our country. No matter what he said, how outrageous, how stupid they had a collective orgasm and swooned at his feet. He started thinking he was a god and could do no wrong and suddenly he is hit square in the face with the ice water of reality. The media have betrayed their job as watchdog for the people and can no longer be called a free press. They are the problem.
I call them the Vichy Press
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:06pm.
It fits perfectly.
I wonder if the editor
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:17am.
Indeed you nailed that one, NS.
Proper editor's note might have read:
(;~/ gary
In short, Obama lied and the
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:30am.
In short, Obama lied and the AP reported it.
For the liberal drive-by MSM that is a mortal sin.
Question for you Noel
Submitted by Delsa on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:42am.
Submitted by Delsa on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:32am. WHY does no one ever point out that the TEA Party goers, went to rallies, had the rally,never had sleep overs, cleaned up, and then went home in order to prepare for WORK Monday morning? In addition, WHY does no one in the media point out that TEA stands for TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY??? These maggots in the parks of NY and in the streets of Washington are bottom feeders waiting for my TAX dollars to flow into their pockets. NO MORE! We so called TEA party folks are from all parties and life styles and the one thing we have in common is WE WORK HARD AND ARE TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY!
The press is blind to obama
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:21pm.
The press is blind to obama and blind to all else.
With the Sarah Danger now "past",
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:49am.
the AP can look toward getting a progressive Republican in the Oval Office. Those who operate the AP know that Barry is toast and so under the bus he goes. Watch for the Mitt and Rick show to garner saturation not yet seen.
There is no shift here by the AP. There is no sudden moment of insight or turning over a new leaf. They feel empowered because they are licking their chops at the field of party owned pubbies and preparing to anoint another in a long line of media chosen Presidents.
Don't be fooled. This is just more of Old Media's same game.
Is it too soon?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:51am.
Is it too soon to start looking for the press to call the Occupy crowd what they really are - a bunch of mindless dolts being used by Marxist socialist union leaders and other anti-capitalists whose sole intent is the destabilization of the dollar and, ultimately, the destruction of our Republic?
Irony to hypocrisy
Submitted by antiObamunist on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:36pm.
Just call them Occupiers it fits hypocritically with their detest of Jewish occupation
Unless you just think Stinkers fits better
all the psychopaths of the
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:19pm.
all the psychopaths of the world are today proud..we have a president whom is in their company. Charles Manson should be very proud.
it is an AP article:
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:23pm.
The only thing that matters is who picks it up and actually publishes the story for their readers and where in the back of the Style section they put it.
Otherwise, it is still a tree falling in the forest.
Narcissist meltdowns are never fun. Never.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:31pm.
Just hope it stays in Axis II cluster B symptoms. If it reaches Axis I (the bad stuff - depression, schizophrenia, bipolarity, etc.), we're in for trouble.
proper procedure
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:13pm.
If it gets that way, Congress would have to invoke the 25th Amendment. I can easily see the current House doing it, but I can't see the Democrat-led Senate doing that. It requires both to do so.
-Jon
The majority of economists
Submitted by coin of the realm on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 5:25pm.
surveyed say the Obama plan will add jobs and stop the downward slide of the economy. The notion that the republicans espouse that he wont compromise with them is absurd to anyone who follows the offers and counter offers. To the repubs the word 'compromise' means to do everything they want and nothing Obama wants.
I guess if the so called job creators aren't creating jobs then lets take back some of those tax gifts they have been enjoying for more than 10 years and put the money towards creating jobs. face it, if they haven't been hiring bc of taxes then they aint gonna hire if they get more tax breaks. How can any reasonable analysts argue that tax rates or uncertainty are the primary factor in any hiring decisions by businesses? Especially considering that a large number of companies pay no taxes, low taxes or , in some cases, actually get paid money by the gov. I mean, common man, record profits, record levels of cash on hand, multi -decade lows in taxes and low interest rates. But they are not hiring bc of the debt or health care??!!
Quit the political propaganda and let the truth win out once in a while even though it is not aligned with republican idea;logy and rhetoric. Your credibility would be much improved if you where to act like you are really interested in fighting political bias in the media by not taking a stance that is politically biased. It wont kill ya to admit that the facts are not liberal talking points, but just facts.
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws. Mayer Amschel Rothschild
For 2012, but........
Submitted by Par for the Course on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 6:01pm.
I don't think the American Jobs Act is going to make that much of a difference. It appears to give a boost to employment in 2012, an election year, but that's about it.
So, by 2015, even with Obama's American Jobs Act, the economy will be roughly in the same place it would have been as if there were no jobs package. I don't know about you, but I would prefer long-term growth policies, rather than short-term tax and spend stop-gap measures.
I have a nice Bridge to sell you
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:20pm.
A big one in NY. Dont worry, they cleaned all the poo off it after last week.
Question, why did Obama's other stimulus create another 1.8% unemployment?
coin,
Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:36pm.
Right. A few questions.
1) Who consists of this "majority of economists"? I'm no expert on economics, but I have been doing accounting for enough years to know that if I ran a business the way his majesty and his yes-men run the government, I would be put in jail.
One more thing. If you mention that epic failure of intellectualism, paul krugman, I will have to call b.s. on you.
2) What exactly are these jobs and where are they to be found? Are they part-time? Are they only in blue states? Are they given to only those unions and fringe groups that supported his majesty? Are they burger-flipping jobs at McDonalds?
Be honest. There are NO jobs and it is not the evil bastard republicans who are impeding job growth.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
Quit the political propaganda, you say, counterfeit money,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:53pm.
while spouting voluminous reams of liberal drivel.
God, you are a putz.
Even for a troll.
MD