Words spoken by Obama during the campaign for President. Here's a laundry list of contradictions to the above statement during his first 9-10 months:
- accused doctors of performing unnecessary medical procedures for profit.
- demonized bond holders as "speculators".
- produced a report suggesting military veterans are prone to becoming right wing extremists.
- attacked insurance companies and threatened them with legislative retribution.
- ridiculed talk show hosts and political commentators by name from the White House podium.
- dismissed and demeaned protesters and town hall attendees as either unauthentic or fringe characters.
- maligned a white police officer for arresting a black man without knowing the facts of the case.
- launched an orchestrated campaign to marginalize the country's biggest pro-business group.
- publicly declared war on Fox News and the Chamber of Commerce.
- saying that the Republican party is a party of no. How is that constructive? He's the leader of the free world, and all he wants to do is start little fights with his opponents. In fact, Republicans have introduced healthcare legislation that has included such things as medical malpractice reform (rejected by Democrats to protect the trial lawyers), enabling people to cross state lines for insurance for better competition (driven down by Democrats), allowing a health care credit (mainly suggested by McCain during the campaign).
And his inclusion during the campaign of being "the most transparent administration in history". The facts:
- Democrats in Congress are resisting a rules change that would allow the bill to be posted online 72 hours before a vote so the public might have a chance to see exactly what it is their elected representatives are voting on.
- Democrats are writing the Healthcare bill behind closed doors, with no Republican inclusion.
Lastly, how immature is it for a White House to attack Fox News?? Yes, Fox slants right. Especially when comparing it to the rest of the media. When you look at this, you see the outright immaturity of an administration to call out a news outlet. Here's a list of conservative vs. liberal news outlets and organizations in our country:
Conservative:
- Fox News
- Most AM radio (at least the successful ones)
- Wall Street Journal
- New York Post
- Washington Times
- Las Vegas Review
- San Diego Union Tribune
- NRA
- Chamber of Commerce
Liberal:
- MSNBC
- CNN
- ABC
- NBC
- CBS
- National Public Radio
- PBS
- New York Times
- Seattle Times
- LA Times
- Boston Globe
- Star Tribune
- Newsweek
- Miami Herald
- Universities
- Hollywood
- Labor Unions
- Pro Abortion Groups
I could go on for days, but you get the picture. So after reading this, doesn't this make you think the Chicago Thug style politics (search and destroy) is out in full bloom in the White House these days?
With Fox News beating CNN and MSNBC COMBINED on a nightly basis, I guess Fox has nothing to worry about!
