Has anyone else received this email?

some interesting points at the 100 day mark............




Speaking of being an unreasonable rightist with “Limbaugh” leanings. Have you noticed that the news media’s most important news stories recently have been slurs about Sarah Palin and her family and the fact that Obama got a new dog?



Here is a small selection of news on the most powerful man on Earth which has been deemed unfit to print by the media with "Marxist" leanings:



1. Obama’s first two major bills alone, the "stimulus" and "omnibus," cost nearly twice as much as was spent on Iraq over six years – $1.2 trillion vs. $650 billion.

2. Obama abandoned his campaign promise of "a net spending cut," his first annual deficit – not counting bailouts – being three times the worst deficit under President George W. Bush.

3. Obama’s objective in his first G20 summit – commitments to spend our way to prosperity with massive stimulus boondoggles across the G20 – was rejected out of hand.

4. Obama’s objective in his first NATO summit – commitments to combat troops for Afghanistan from "our European allies," which Obama and his party imagined were ready and willing to fight if only someone "enlightened" like him were running things – was predictably refused, with some more European non-combat contingents offered as a token.

5. Obama’s Defense Department announced cuts of $1.4 billion to missile defense, the day after North Korea test-fired its long-range, multi-stage ballistic missile.

6. Obama’s economics were criticized by Warren Buffet, whose endorsement had been candidate Obama’s highest economic credential.

7. Obama reversed the free trade Bush policy that had allowed about 100 Mexican tractor-trailers into the United States, which the Mexican government immediately used as an excuse to levy tariffs on 90 American goods amounting to $2.4 billion in U.S. exports.

8. Obama’s "tax cuts for 95 per cent" turned out to mean $13 a week from June to December, to be clawed back to $8 a week in January – as compared with President Bush’s 2008 tax rebates of $600 to $1,200 plus $300 per child, which were notably scoffed at during the election campaign by Michelle Obama.

9. Obama’s campaign promise of a $3,000-per-employee tax credit for businesses that hired new workers – repeated ad nauseam for weeks before the election – was discreetly retired even before inauguration day.

10. Obama abandoned his campaign promise that "lobbyists won’t work in my White House," waiving his no-lobbyist executive order or conveniently re-defining his appointees’ past lobbying work to allow 30 lobbyists into his administration.

11. Obama abandoned his campaign promise to reform earmarks, signing the omnibus bill which contained 8,816 of them.

12. Obama took more money from AIG than any other politician in 2008 – over $100,000 – and signed into law the provision guaranteeing the AIG bonuses which later had him in front of the cameras "shaking with outrage" and siccing the pitchfork crowd on law-abiding citizens who had fulfilled their end of a contract and had their payment upheld by Obama’s own legislation.



Why should these points, and many more like them, have to be made?



Fox News Channel is the butt of jokes and the target of attacks like no other media outlet in the English-speaking world, not least by people who fancy themselves the guardians of a free press. But Fox News is today the lone television news service in the English-speaking world capable of serious skepticism and scrutiny of the sitting president and the Congress of the United States.

Fox News is also the second most-watched channel in all American cable television. It long ago became by far the most-watched cable news channel; more Americans watched Fox News than CNN and MSNBC combined in every time slot from 6 a.m. to midnight in April. Now, while The New York Times is $1.3 billion in debt, Fox has expanded its operations with a business channel and a juggernaut Internet presence. There’s a lesson there, though Fox News will be just as well pleased if the impeccably "mainstream" news business remains clueless about it.

The people need a Fourth Estate, not yet another adulator of Barack Obama, yet another smearer of Sarah Palin, yet another patrician editor to keep out anything disagreeable to progressive sensibilities, yet another laptop-and-latte journalism-schooler to spit on everything pre-dating 1968. They wonder why the news business has come on hard times.


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Here was my response: cc'ed

"Limbaugh" leanings? Is it true what they say about Limbaugh? Is he really the leader of the Republican Party. It's difficult to get used to being the minority Party, I suppose.

There are so many contradictions in the email that it's difficult to know where to start.

First of all, this year's deficit of $1.2 trillion is the last budget of the Bush Administration. Remember when Bush and Paulson came before the people to inform us that if we did not give them $700 billion dollars with no questions asked, then our entire economic system could collapse? Remember? Remember how the majority of economists said that our economy needed a huge stimulus to keep us out of the worst depression since the 1930's? Remember? Much of the criticism against Obama was that the "stimulus" was not large enough.

I am not trying to defend President Obama but let's try to operate on facts, OK? I don't agree with the huge bailouts of the banks but I am no economist. What was the Republican solution? What is your solution? Just let them go under? Or is it all a scam? It takes more than hatred and criticism when your country is going under.

As for the Mainstream media, they all seem to be going under except FOX News? Even the NYTimes is near bankruptcy. FOX has more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined? But the mainstream media is the big dog on the block? It seems like a bit of contradiction. Either FOX has the most viewers or they do not?

later

ken