Do you agree with O’Reilly and Rove that the economic crisis is the invention of the “liberal media?”?
Maybe they would like to tell that to all of the Americans who have lost their jobs, homes, and life savings.
O’REILLY: All right, so you are agreeing with me then that there is a conscious effort on the part of The New York Times and other liberal media to basically paint as drastic a picture as possible, so that when Barack Obama takes office that anything is better than what we have now?
ROVE: Yes. And watch their words when they describe the steps that he wants to take. I noticed again this past weekend, he described this enormous program of spending on infrastructure, on roads and highways and improvements in our infrastructure. And watch how they treat this when he comes into office if he actually pursues this package. And you’ll see very few of them raising serious questions about what kind of stimulative effect it really is going to have, because what we do know is on these kind of big projects, only one out of every four dollars that’s appropriated for them gets spent in the first year. The rest of it gets spent in the out year. So these are not going to have an immediate impact. And let’s see how tough they treat him on this and how much they hold him up to scrutiny.
http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/21616129/rove_s_review.htm#seek=18.109
So the conservative media has been preparing even before the inauguration to oppose this bill. How is building infrastructure a bad thing?? I thought job creation was our goal.
I don’t understand, after Bush and the Republicans talked about how bad things are and how much worse they’ll get without a stimulus, and we pass a $700,000,000,000 bailout under Bush’s watch, how can they flip the script and say it’s not so bad and that the “liberal media” is blowing it out of proportion??
A good quote to keep in mind:
“I admit it, the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.” -William Kristol, Republican/neoconservative publicist
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030224/alterman2
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/10/begala.gop/index.html?imw=Y
cmd – Do you really believe that the media is making it sound worse than it really is? Seems pretty d@mn bad to me in real life, without even turning on the news.