Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Most Dangerous Bailout

The media are on a kamikaze mission for Obama. Ratings for the evening news on the big TV networks continue to languish and the left-leaning newspaper industry is circling the drain, but they never stop shillin' for Obama. Hey — they might be rewarded with an afterlife (tax breaks, bailouts and non-profit status), so it's totally worth it!

You already know the media are Obama's volunteer PR machine.  The MRC lets us know exactly how bad it is. MRC analysts looked at all 982 broadcast evening news stories about Obama and his administration from Inauguration Day through April 29. Here are some of the interesting, though not surprising, things that they found:
  • Obama’s first 100 days were defined by massive spending, aggressive intervention in the private sector and proposals for a huge expansion of the federal government. Yet none of the networks aired a single story on whether Obama’s policies were pushing the U.S. toward socialism, and no reporter used the term “socialist” to describe Obama.
  • Network reporters never used the word “liberal” to describe either Barack Obama or his agenda during the first 100 days.
  • The networks lavished good press on every major initiative of the early Obama administration, including the massive stimulus package, all of the various bailouts, health care, stem cells, the environment and foreign policy.
  • In the days before the President unveiled his unprecedented $3.5 trillion budget — with a record-shattering $1.75 trillion deficit — four out of five statements on the evening newscasts parroted the White House spin that Obama was a deficit fighter.
  • President Obama’s decision to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan was greeted by nearly unanimous (91%) positive coverage — a far cry from the highly negative coverage of President Bush’s successful troop surge in Iraq two years ago.
The Democrats' greed is astonishing.  They have the media licking from their palms, but they are still not happy.  They want to own their media handmaidens. And so they offer bailouts and tax breaks and non-profit schemes.

If the government continues to subsidize the press with bailouts, tax breaks and gratuitous non-profit privileges, will the press be free?  Free to bite the hand that feeds them?  Not at all.  

Government bailout of the news media is the most dangerous bailout of all.  (He who pays the piper calls the tune.)

When did the First Amendment become so inconvenient for the left?


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The $140B GE Capital bailout: payback for NBC/MSNBC/Olbermann/Maddow
Under the cloak of corporate responsibility, General Electric seeks to benefit to the tune of billions from the passage of Mr. Obama's health care reform. On its corporate Web site, Healthymagination admits it will use every tool at its disposal to achieve its goals, including NBC Universal, the parent company of MSNBC which offers nearly uncritical coverage of Mr. Obama and his policies.  In effect, NBC Universal would become the propaganda arm of the administration's drive for the nationalization of health care, pushing its passage in its print and television properties.  (Big hat tip to Bungalow Bill for reminding me about this story.)

Obama Appointee Suggests Radical Plan for Newspaper Bailout.

U.S. Senators Consider Options For Ailing Newspapers

Wash. gov OKs tax cut for newspapers

Solid evidence that even Democrats know that tax cuts are a benefit to business, the economy and the American way of life.

Think about this statement, it really highlights the absurdity of Obama's zero-sum Marxist fantasies: "When you spread the universe around, it's good for everybody.

8 comments:

Timeshare Jake said...

They have already bought NBC through a $140 billion bailout of GE. That seems to be working very well for them. It's no wonder they aren't apposed to print more for the rest of these worthless entities.

RightKlik said...

BB: Thanks for pointing that out. It's a very important part of this story.

robert verdi said...

The GE angle is one I hadn't thought too much about, its a good point. I also wonder how much money is Obama funneling GE over "Green Energy" polcies.

Right Side Review said...

Obama has spent more money than all the presidents added up together. http://rightsidereview.blogspot.com/

WomanHonorThyself said...

When you spread the universe around, it's good for everybody...ugh I think I'm gunna be sick!

Adrienne said...

Glenn Beck has been hammering this GE thing for quite some time.

People should be asking themselves why Obambi is so insistent on bailing out newspapers. For Lord's sake - who reads a newspaper?? (except as he said on his program a few days ago - 70 year olds)

Hey - even the ads stink!

a red voice said...

The media helped to get BHO elected. Of course they want him to succeed, their reputation and their jobs depend on it. Sadly all the things the media has done in the first 100 days, doesn't shock me at all :( - just sickens me.

RightKlik said...

RV: The stuff we know about is SO bad. It's hard to even imagine what's going on behind closed doors.

RSR: Obama is no mere president. He's our King.

WHT: We're going to be sick for a long time.

Adrienne: Why don't we revive the horse and buggy industry while we're at it?

Red: That's right, protecting their investment.