Despite Being Warned, Right-Wing Media Buy Into The "BS" Claims About Obama's Spending Record

[SunsetDreams]

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters not to buy into the "BS" of GOP-driven tax and spending claims and pointed to a Wall Street Journal MarketWatch column that noted that government spending is rising at its slowest pace since the 1950s. Far from heeding that advice, right-wing media figures relied on misleading economic talking points to attack Carney.

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WSJ's MarketWatch: Federal Spending Under Obama Has Increased At The Lowest Rate Since The 1950s

WSJ's MarketWatch: Federal Spending Growth Is Lower Than It Was Under Reagan, Clinton, And Both Bushes. Carney pointed to a May 22 column in The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch headlined "Obama spending binge never happened." From a chart accompanying the column:



WSJ's MarketWatch: "Federal Spending Flattens Under Obama." From another chart accompanying the MarketWatch column:

More Here:
http://mediamatters.org/research/201205240001

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From TPM:

An Obama Spending Spree? Hardly (CHART)

A dominant theme of the national political discourse has been the crushing spending spree the U.S. has ostensibly embarked on during the Obama presidency. That argument, ignited by Republicans and picked up by many elite opinion makers, has infused the national dialogue and shaped the public debate in nearly every major budget battle of the last thee years.

But the numbers tell a different story.

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Obama’s policies, including the much-criticized stimulus package, have caused the slowest increase in federal spending of any president in almost 60 nears, according to data compiled by the financial news service MarketWatch.




Last week, Obama’s likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney accused Obama of lighting a “prairie fire” of spending and said he “added almost as much debt as all the prior presidents combined.”

More Here:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/federal-deficit-barack-obama-spending-stimulus-budget-historic-trends.php?ref=fpb

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The Republican controlled Media wouldn't know how to tell the truth if it jumped up and bit them in the ass. Republicans will lie, cheat, steal their way into the White House. Why? Because they got Nothing! Always have, always will.

[spanone]

1. the truth has no place in the right-wing media

[SoutherDem]

2. Nor do the fact have a place in the right-wing media

Maybe a rich liberal needs to start a liberal network with the motto, Truth with the Facts.

What surprises me is to the conservatives;

FOX is "Fair and Balanced"

Right-Wing Talk Radio is telling the "truth"

Any Network which usually has only one or two liberal reporter is a liberal network no matter the rest of the day is full of conservatives.

NPR which really attempts to give both sides is liberal.

Basically any Network which isn't 24/7 conservative is liberal.

We need the "Anti-FOX" which gives 24/7 liberal news. It may not be good for the news, but it would be entertaining to watch the conservatives to attempt get it off the air "by any means necessary"

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

[SunsetDreams]

4. .

[Fumesucker]

5. They didn't "buy" into right wing claims, they were *bought* into right wing claims..

Bought and paid for..

[SunsetDreams]

6. Good point