The Mainstream Media is Failing Us

On Saturday April 27, 2013, the White Correspondent’s held it’s correspondents dinner.  It was a festive event where the liberal mainstream media took their pot shots at conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh. (1) Some would say that the media was exercising their free press right but we must ask ourselves if this was the original intent of the founders that added the first amendment to the Constitution. 

The founders of this country had just fought and won an ugly war to gain their independence from the British Crown.  In establishing a new government, the founders wanted to insure another oppressive tyranny did not result.  Their intent in the first amendment was that people and the press be able to speak freely against their government, and that individuals would be free to establish and practice their religion.  There is much talk these days about a separation of church and state but what about a separation of media and state. 

Writing for Breitbart.com, Ben Shapiro put it well when he said that while President Obama was lobbing “verbal hand grenades at Republicans, Sheldon Adelson, Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh” Conan O’Brien was “blowing verbal kisses at the president.” (2)  This is an example of our current swooning media that fails to report the truth of the failures of the economic policies of this administration while promoting this administration’s agenda even when it is not working. 

Mr. Shapiro went on to say that these correspondents were having this lavish swooning gala while “90 million Americans remain outside the workforce and 47 million remain on foodstamps” (2).  In fact, we learned this week that 1 out of every five families is currently on foodstamps (3)  and many of the 90 million that have dropped out of the workforce are receiving disability checks from the government.  (4)

Instead of holding a gala correspondents dinner these members of the media should be spending time doing their research and reporting that this administration’s economic policies have been a dismal failure.  The main reason the budget is running trillion dollar deficits every year is because of these failed economic policies that are failing to provide good paying jobs for those currently out of work.  The only results of a continuation of these failed policies is unsustainable debt or more quantitative easing which will eventually lead to inflation, perhaps hyper-inflation. 

Sarah Palin said it well when she said on her twitter account  "DC assclowns" were throwing "themselves a #nerdprom" while "the rest of America is out there working our assess off." (5)

Media, do your job, report the truth about this administration’s policies, and stop sucking up to this administration.  If you do, I can assure you your ratings will skyrocket and begin having the respect of your viewers, listeners, and readers. 

1. Breitbart News. OBAMA MOCKS RUSH LIMBAUGH AT CORRESPONDENTS' DINNER. Breitbart.com. [Online] Breitbart big government, April 27, 2013. [Cited: April 28, 2013.] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/27/Obama-Mocks-Rush-Limbaugh-at-WHCD.

2. Shapiro, Ben. DOUBLE TEAM: O GOES ON OFFENSE, O'BRIEN PLAYS DEFENSE AT CORRESPONDENTS' DINNER. Breitbart.com. [Online] Breitbart Big government, April 27, 2013. [Cited: April 28, 2013.] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/27/WHCD-Obama-Obrien-speech.

3. Schoffstall, Joe. Record Number of Households on Food Stamps-- 1 out of Every 5. cnsnews.com. [Online] cnsnews, April 25, 2013. [Cited: April 28, 2013.] http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/joe-schoffstall/record-number-households-food-stamps-1-out-every-5.

4. Gongloff, Mark. Rise In Disability Rolls Helps Explain An Unemployment Mystery. huffingtonpost.com. [Online] Huff Post Business, May 8, 2012. [Cited: July 18, 2012.] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/social-security-disability_n_1474621.html.

5. Lee, Tony. PALIN SLAMS DC 'ASSCLOWNS' FOR THROWING 'PATHETIC' '#NERDPROM'. breitbart.com. [Online] Breitbart Big Government, April 27, 2013. [Cited: April 28, 2013.] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/27/Sarah-Palin-Slams-Obama-Permanent-Political-Class-For-Lavish-WHCD-Party.