Once again the media missed the opportunity to provide news to the people. Instead they align themselves with the Democrats and keep the facts of the housing crisis deeply buried. Should we consider doing away with the freedom of press?
Another example was on Channel 4 (WDIV) in Detroit last night. The eleven p.m. news was covering the "fiscal cliff", the news reader (and the accompanying information that was flashed on the screen) described the Democratic desire to increase taxes on the "rich" and that Republicans did not want to do that. They completely left out the fact that the Republicans wanted spending cuts to go along with any increase in taxes which is not at all included int he Democratic position.
Some would say that is a small omission to which we say bull hockey! WDIV purposely misled the positions of both parties, painted a misleading image of both and presented a totally biased view of the actual conflict between the two parties. Additionally, based on the time allotted, the Democratic position on the story was 90% and the Republican part was the balance. Since when is that balanced news? It does not even come near!
Who else is coming to the belief that the news media must be held accountable? Should we have monitors that pull a story or news cast that is not balanced? Should we not do business with companies that advertise on/in this biased media? We would like to hear from you.
Conservative Tom
New study confirms economy was destroyed by relentless policies of Democratic Party
Another example was on Channel 4 (WDIV) in Detroit last night. The eleven p.m. news was covering the "fiscal cliff", the news reader (and the accompanying information that was flashed on the screen) described the Democratic desire to increase taxes on the "rich" and that Republicans did not want to do that. They completely left out the fact that the Republicans wanted spending cuts to go along with any increase in taxes which is not at all included int he Democratic position.
Some would say that is a small omission to which we say bull hockey! WDIV purposely misled the positions of both parties, painted a misleading image of both and presented a totally biased view of the actual conflict between the two parties. Additionally, based on the time allotted, the Democratic position on the story was 90% and the Republican part was the balance. Since when is that balanced news? It does not even come near!
Who else is coming to the belief that the news media must be held accountable? Should we have monitors that pull a story or news cast that is not balanced? Should we not do business with companies that advertise on/in this biased media? We would like to hear from you.
Conservative Tom
New study confirms economy was destroyed by relentless policies of Democratic Party
http://israel-commentary.org/?p=5513
ECONOMY
DECEMBER 21, 2012
BY: ROBERT MOONS
DECEMBER 21, 2012
BY: ROBERT MOONS
A new study from the widely respected National Bureau of Economic Research released this week has confirmed beyond question that the left’s race-baiting attacks on the housing market (the Community Reinvestment Act–enacted under Carter, made shockingly more aggressive under Clinton) is directly responsible for imploding the housing market and destroying the economy.
The study painstakingly sorted through failed home loans that caused the housing market collapse and identified an overwhelming connection between them and CRA mortgages.
(And is the main reason Barney Frank and Chris Dodd conveniently disappeared from the political scene. How about a genuine in-depth, independent prosecutor review to put these crooks in jail – hardly adequate punishment for the immense trouble they have caused us and in which Obama relishes and his father’s dreams are fulfilled) jsk
Let’s review:
-President Bush went to Congress repeatedly for years warning them that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were going to destroy the economy (17 times in 2008 alone). Democrats continuously ignored him, shut down his proposals along party lines and continued raiding the institutions for campaign contributions on their way down.
-John McCain also co-sponsored urgently critical reforms that would have prevented the housing market collapse, but Democrats shut that down as well, along party lines, and even openly ridiculed anyone who suggested reforms were necessary…to protect their taxpayer-funded campaign contributions as the economy raced uncontrollably toward the cliff.
-No one was making bad loans to unqualified people until Democrats came along and threatened to drag banks into court and have them fined and branded as racists if they didn’t go along with the left’s Affirmative Action lending policies…all while federally insuring their losses. Even the New York Times warned in the late 1990s that Democrats continuing to force banks into lowering their standards would lead to this exact catastrophe.
-Obama himself is even on the record personally helping sue one lender (Citibank) into lowering its lending standards to include people from extremely poor and unstable areas, which even one of the left’s favorite blatantly partisan “fact-checkers,” Snopes, admits (while pretending to ‘set the record straight’).
-Even The New York Times admitted that there is “little evidence” of any connection between the “Republican” deregulation measures Obama blames, like the Gramm-Bleach-Liley Act (signed into law by a Democrat), and the collapse of the housing market.
But now the media have spent years deliberately and relentlessly inoculating people against the facts, training them to mindlessly blame Bush for being in charge when Democrat policies destroyed the economy. So here we sit, to this day, still watching Obama excuse and shrug off endless economic failures, illegal government takeovers and utter national bankruptcy with zero accountability.
