The article begins like this: "Democrats are finding more excuses to ignore the promise they made when they took over Congress that they wouldn't pass laws increasing the budget deficit. Now they're willing to do it again!" You call that "reporting" or "bias"? It also contains phrases such as "They've already swelled the deficit", "their latest transgressions", "tossing out their fiscal responsibility".
The Democrats have held a slim margin in congress, and only since Dec. 2007. Bush & the Republicans controlled every branch of government from 2000 until then. And they controlled congress from 1994 until then. They have spent more federal money than any administration in the history of America! They took a huge surplus from Bill Clinton and made it the hugest deficit in history. But suddenly, the Democrats are "swelling the deficit"??? And only since Dec. 2007??? With a Republican president???
Ladies and gentlemen: The corporate media is now the rightwing media! There is no such thing as the "liberal media"!
So, choose whichever one you want to click on below, to read the same exact article.
Headline #1, which is in your local corporate newspaper:
● Democrats plan breaking deficit discipline promise again
Headline #2: the headline you won't see anymore:
● Democrats propose extension of jobless benefits, tax cuts for middleclass, college aid for veterans
Headline #1 doesn't even give you a CLUE what the article is about, it's someone's opinion who hates Democrats!
Headline #2 REPORTS what the article is about, without even reading the article!
That's a clue to detecting biased headlines. Ask yourself, "Does this headline tell me what the article is about?" If it doesn't, ask yourself what this person is trying to get you to think!
Just like when Exxon/Mobile recently made the 2nd largest quarterly profit of any company in U.S. history earlier this week, the headline was: "Exxon/Mobile quarterly profits lower than expected"!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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● 1.1 Million Purged from Indiana Voter Registration Rolls According to State Data, Says BBV
(bd: Side story: this wasn't, of course, in the corporate-controlled newspapers! More on the Republican War on Voting!)
● One million cancelled or altered - The Incredible Disappearing Indiana Voter Rolls
● Cancelled or changed, there's a whole lotta shuffling going on w. IN database
● Read Big Dan's previous post: Republican Party's ongoing nationwide campaign to suppress the low-income minority vote by propagating the myth of voter fraud.
● GOP Polling Place Photo ID Restrictions: Keeping Vets (and So Many More) From Voting in America. Why Do Republicans Hate our Troops? And the U.S. Constitution? As I've been trying to help people understand, this Indiana polling place Photo ID restriction law, as upheld last week by the Supreme Court, is so much worse than most folks realize right now. It is, as previously predicted, already beginning to spread like wildfire to other states, such as Missouri, where the Republicans control both legislature and state house, and where even a few thousand legal Democratic votes, shaved cynically off of the results in places like the city of St. Louis next November, can be the difference between the state going "red" instead of "blue." The following remarkable tale of a U.S. Army vet who has fought in three conflicts for our country, and who has won multiple medals for his service, including two bronze stars, purple heart, etc., who has been registered to vote since 1968, but who is now having a helluva time being able to cast a ballot in Indiana, will likely become all too typical now. The report comes from from the Nuvo weekly in the Hoosier state, and was sent in by BRAD BLOG reader "RC."
● Alan Breslauer interviews Byron DeLear who is running for Congress in Missouri's 2nd District. The current holder of the seat is the ultra-conservative war supporter and Bush crony, Todd Akin (R-MO), who last year infamously argued to keep sending reinforcements to Iraq by invoking Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
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● 'I DIDN'T VOTE FOR GEORGE BUSH' McCain Camp Denies: "Consider the Source". Arianna Responds: "By All Means"
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Other news don't want you to know about:
● 151 Congressmen Derive Financial Profit From War. Blood money stains the hands of more than 25% of members of the U.S. House and Senate
● Check out FedSpending.org: You have a right to know how the federal government spends our money.
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Democracy NOW! DISH channels 9410 & 9415, DirecTV channel 275:
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination. We speak to James Steele, contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
Monday’s top story on the popular financial website Kiplinger.com begins with this advice to potential investors: “Everywhere you look people are grumbling—and in many cases rioting—about the high price of food. Before you buy a 20-pound bag of rice at Costco, consider hording shares of Monsanto.”
It’s true—while the rising cost of food pushes millions around the world into deeper hunger and scarcity, agricultural companies like Monsanto are posting record profits. The top seed maker in the world, Monsanto’s stock has gained ninety-five percent over the past year and sixteen-hundred percent over the past five years. Monsanto’s profits topped one point six billion in the first quarter, up thirty-seven percent from the same quarter last year.
Monsanto rose to prominence as one of the leading chemical giants of the twentieth century, but its focus today is agriculture. A company statement says: “At Monsanto, we apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world be more successful, produce healthier foods, and better animal feeds, and create more fiber, all while reducing agriculture’s impact on the environment.” But critics have accused Monsanto of undermining local farmers and public health through a wide means of corporate bullying.
The latest issue of Vanity Fair has a lengthy article profiling some of Monsanto’s controversial corporate practices, from patenting seeds to fighting warning labels on milk cartons. It’s called “Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear.” Vanity Fair contributing editor James Steele joins me now here in the firehouse. He is the co-author of the piece, along with Donald Bartlett.
James Steele, investigative journalist and Vanity Fair contributing editor. He is co-author of the article Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
● DN! Video, click here!
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Democracy NOW! DISH channels 9410 & 9415, DirecTV channel 275:
“Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism”
Renowned political analyst Kevin Phillips argues successive administrations have imperiled the U.S. economy by a combination of short-sighted policies and a trend against regulation. These include unparalleled credit-card debts, the expansion of financial industries such as hedge funds, ballooning national debts, and deliberately altering statistics like inflation and unemployment to mask the accurate picture.
With the collapse of the housing market and the rise in oil prices, much attention has been paid to the question of whether the U.S. is in a recession. But is it possible the nation’s economic well-being is in even deeper financial straits? A new book by the renowned political analyst Kevin Phillips argues it is. Phillips says successive administrations have imperiled the U.S. by a combination of short-sighted policies and a trend against regulation. These include unparalleled credit-card debts, the expansion of financial industries such as hedge funds, ballooning national debts, and deliberately altering statistics like inflation and unemployment to mask the accurate picture.
A generation ago Phillips wrote “The Emerging Republican Majority” which Newsweek described as the “political bible of the Nixon administration.” Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Phillips was viewed as one of the GOP’s top theoreticians and electoral analysts. But today he’s considered one of the leading critics of U.S. political culture.
Kevin Phillips” latest book is “Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.” It’s the fourteenth volume in his series of reflections on U.S. political culture, following the bestseller “American Theocracy.” Kevin Phillips joins me now from Houston, Texas.
Kevin Phillips, author of “Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.”
● DN! Video, click here!
