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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBlame the Democrats for everyone else's stupidity
WED FEB 05, 2014 AT 07:30 AM PST
Blame the Democrats for everyone else's stupidity
bykos
much reporting & GOP response to new CBO report on ACA is inaccurate/false, problem for Dems: If you're explainin', you're losin'
@calmesnyt
@calmesnyt
Got that?
If Republicans lie about the report, and the media totally gets it wrong because
a) they bought the GOP spin or b) they're too stupid to read the report, then ...
it's the Dems' fault!
Thanks Jackie Calmes, White House reporter for the NY Times! Remind me again, why do you exist?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/04/1275048/-Blame-the-Dems-for-everyone-else-s-stupidity
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Blame the Democrats for everyone else's stupidity (Original Post)
kpete
Feb 2014
OP
Yes, Jackie, because if the media were to do the 'explainin' that would be, like, hard work.
Fred Sanders
Feb 2014
#4
Yep. I.O.W., reporters would finally have to do their jobs instead of reading off
BlueCaliDem
Feb 2014
#5
The Mass Media TOTALLY had the CBO report wrong, it is now their fragile wounded pride that
Fred Sanders
Feb 2014
#3
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)1. That's right, Jackie. So as a reporter for the NY Times, why aren't YOU
"explainin'", i.e., correcting the blatant falsehoods regurgitated by the GOP and their corporate-paid lackeys in front of willing mics and cameras? That's YOUR job, not the Democrats'.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. Yes, Jackie, because if the media were to do the 'explainin' that would be, like, hard work.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)5. Yep. I.O.W., reporters would finally have to do their jobs instead of reading off
GOP-faxed cheat-sheets.
Jackie once again reminds us why our once renowned Fourth Estate is dead and gone.
Mass
(27,315 posts)2. not what it says
If you do not think the way the report was reported is a problem, you are burying your head in the sand.
It is not a judgement. It is a fact.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. The Mass Media TOTALLY had the CBO report wrong, it is now their fragile wounded pride that
makes them lash out at Democrats who are easily more likely to take it than the ever hostile and vicious Republicans, so it is a natural for them.