MM - "Media Amplify Obama's Comments On Private Sector, Ignore Romney's Attack On Public Workers"

[TomCADem]

I guess it is par for the course that the corporate media is busy distorting President Obama's statement that the private sector is doing fine compared to public employees while giving Romney a free pass...

http://mediamatters.org/research/201206090001

During a campaign stop today, Mitt Romney suggested that "the message" to take away from Gov. Scott Walker's recall victory in Wisconsin is that the United States doesn't "need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers." The media largely ignored this comment in favor of amplifying Republican attacks on President Obama's remarks about private sector job growth.

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ROMNEY: For the president of the United States to stand up and say that private sector is doing fine is gonna go down in history as an extraordinary miscalculation and misunderstanding by a president who's out of touch. And we're gonna take back this country and we're gonna get America working again.

And his answer for economic vitality by the way was of course pushing aside the private sector, which he said is doing fine; instead, he wants to add more to government. He wants another stimulus. He wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin?

The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.

[Life Long Dem]

1. It's called bias.

And CNN is not far from Fox News.

[libinnyandia]

3. I saw Chris Matthews on C-SPAN yesterday and he said CNN was a great news source. I

immediately changed channels.

[spanone]

5. they circle the wagons to protect their own

[MLKJrInspired]

2. Romney was actually a little bit smart about it

Unusual for Mitt, but he's actually playing it well. And he didn't explicitly say that he opposed hiring fire fighters, police, teachers. He just said Obama is in favor it. That was he doesn't get the bad soundbite.

[asjr]

4. Actually, Obama was right. He needed to

remind others of the amount of money the Corporations have amassed during these last years. They hae made fortunes but none of that money has been put to good use.

[jenmito]

6. Just like they totally ignored Romney's Friday release of his documents showing he sold his

overseas stocks. It got no coverage at all besides Martin Bashir covering it one day.