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5 Stories the Media Constantly Lets Republicans Blatantly Lie About
June 30, 2014 By Allen Clifton
While the media has never been perfect, it’s become an absolute joke these last few years. But what should we expect? We’ve allowed our news to become dictated by corporations. Now it’s ad revenue that drives the news, not actual quality reporting.
Over the weekend as I watched several different news channels, it infuriated me how often I saw Republicans perpetuating some kind of lie while the host or interviewer didn’t once try to correct them. And I wasn’t even watching Fox News where this kind of behavior should be expected.
So here are five claims or stories I’ve seen recently where Republicans have blatantly lied, yet hardly anyone in the mainstream media has called them out for doing so.
Time and time again I see Republicans perpetuate this idea that this entire “scandal” revolves around conservative groups being unfairly targeted by the IRS.
Yet never once do I see anyone in the media mention the fact that there’s evidence we’ve known about for quite some time showing that liberal groups were targeted as well.
Dick Cheney
You know how many times I’ve seen him sit there blaming President Obama for pulling our troops out of Iraq in 2011? Yet I’ve rarely seen anyone in the media play his clip from 2009 where he stated that the plan to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq was a sign that the war was successful.
The plan George W. Bush signed with the Iraqi government - not President Obama.
Domestic Drilling for Oil
“Drill baby drill!” – quite possibly the dumbest phrase ever uttered by any individual in a discussion about the price of oil. Why is it when oil prices are mentioned, or domestic drilling is brought up, Republicans get away with perpetuating this idea that the oil we drill domestically is kept here for us to use?
Some is, yes. But the majority of it is taken and sold on the global market to the highest bidder. We can drill domestically all we want, but as long as it’s allowed to be sold and manipulated by Wall Street speculation, we’re not going to see some kind of drop in the price of gasoline.
And the last time I checked, Republicans weren’t lobbying to socialize our oil production.
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