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Aquarian
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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:54 am Post subject: MSM To Receive $1.44 Billion From McCain’s Tax Cuts |
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Prior to and following the vice-presidential debates, conservatives on Fox News purported that the “mainstream media” has a preference for an Obama presidency. Bill Kristol, Kirsten Powers, and Jeffrey Goldberg all agreed in the “obvious fact” of the “transparent agenda” of liberal media bias. Watch it:
These claims fly in the face of reality. The multinational corporations that run the mainstream media — GE (NBC), Time Warner (CNN), Walt Disney (ABC), News Corporation (FOX), and Viacom (CBS) — stand to benefit hugely under a McCain presidency. The centerpiece of Sen. McCain’s economic plan — actually, the whole plan — is large tax cuts for corporations. It would deliver $1.44 billion in tax cuts to the five largest media companies, according to an analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
These giveaways are just one part of McCain’s doubling of the Bush tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy which would create the largest deficits in 25 years and drive the United States into the deepest deficits since World War II. McCain and Palin have promised that the $700 billion bailout would not threaten these tax cuts.
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KRISTOL: Let me clue you in on something. The mainstream media wants Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States.
I’m very happy about the Gwen Ifill kerfuffle, because it has just exposed the obvious fact the media has never been more biased. They want Obama to win. They want McCain to lose. They hate Sarah Palin. I have never seen anything like it before.
And now they are trying to demoralize conservatives by pretending the race is over.
HUME: I want to hear Kirsten on this–your thoughts?
POWERS: I actually agree with what you just said. They are at the worst place they have ever been, the media. It is a transparent agenda, there is no doubt about that.
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GOLDBERG: Well, look. Look. I’m not going to break any news here by telling you this so-called mainstream media has a rooting interest in, in Barack Obama. So if it’s … I’m sorry, I know Steve, you’ve been in a coma the past year, and you didn’t know that, but it’s true.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/04/mccain-media-tax/ |
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| Congress just passed a 700 billion dollar bailout, who care if McCains tax cuts are 1.5 Billion in comparison. |
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| greeney2 wrote: |
| Congress just passed a 700 billion dollar bailout, who care if McCains tax cuts are 1.5 Billion in comparison. |
A bill that was voted by both Obama AND McCain, mind you. Instead we still have people who pledge a blind allegiance to one candidate over the other.
This is important to mention because one of the right wing's favorite talking-points mantra is that the media largely serves liberal interests, despite the fact that Obama is not a progressive liberal Democrat. In-fact, one of his ads on television last night completely downplayed the benefits of a single-payer health-care system labeling it "extreme". |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| Why do you think your swing twards the Democratic side isn;t blind? You are ignoring the skeletons in Obama's closet. |
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and this is said while the crap in big maverick changeling Macs closet stinks to hell and back?
can anyone say "keating"? |
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They are not TAX CUTS!!!
Govt has no claim on our money. Yes there are needs for taxes and they are covered in the US Constitution.
So these are TAX BREAKS!!! for taxes that are too high and wasted on superficial social spending trash. |
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yeah, things like three trillion to bring democracy to a bunch of raggies in the middle east??
we could have bailed out SS, implemented health care and done all kinds of things with the trillions spent on these "breaks", and money wars.. |
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yeah, things like three trillion to bring democracy to a bunch of raggies in the middle east??
we could have bailed out SS, implemented health care and done all kinds of things with the trillions spent on these "breaks", and money wars.. |
SSand all your other feel good stuff is not part of what the Fed is constitutionally allowed to do. Get over your own self pity and aggrandizement of failure. |
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yeah, things like three trillion to bring democracy to a bunch of raggies in the middle east??
we could have bailed out SS, implemented health care and done all kinds of things with the trillions spent on these "breaks", and money wars.. |
Oh and what 3 trillion? Where do you get your figured, besides la la land. |
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| It's not really the spending that bothers me, it's where the money is funneled. Murder, Big Banks and Corporations, the wealthy few, are just one of the few of many examples, of course... |
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3 trillion is boloney, the entire bailout is 50 billion more than the entire Iraq war from the first day.
What bothers me Aquarian is baseless opinions the money will fund murder . You guys have to get some facts straight, instead of 8 more years of liberial lies to win elections. |
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3 trillion is boloney, the entire bailout is 50 billion more than the entire Iraq war from the first day.
What bothers me Aquarian is baseless opinions the money will fund murder . You guys have to get some facts straight, instead of 8 more years of liberial lies to win elections. |
Explain to me how war is NOT wholesome murder. |
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Explain to me how war is NOT wholesome murder. |
You mean wholesale? Per chance?
The conditions for murder are clearly defined and none of those are what happens in war, especially where your precious Geneva conventions are concerned.
You need to read about this yourself instead of running around like chicken little spouting your leftist unfacts as facts.
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| greeney2 wrote: |
3 trillion is boloney, the entire bailout is 50 billion more than the entire Iraq war from the first day.
What bothers me Aquarian is baseless opinions the money will fund murder . You guys have to get some facts straight, instead of 8 more years of liberial lies to win elections. |
Explain to me how war is NOT wholesome murder. |
There is a vast difference between war and wanton destruction. |
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| theking wrote: |
| Aquarian wrote: |
| greeney2 wrote: |
3 trillion is boloney, the entire bailout is 50 billion more than the entire Iraq war from the first day.
What bothers me Aquarian is baseless opinions the money will fund murder . You guys have to get some facts straight, instead of 8 more years of liberial lies to win elections. |
Explain to me how war is NOT wholesome murder. |
There is a vast difference between war and wanton destruction. |
Yes, and Abu Ghraib was an exercise in restraint. |
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