It’s about time. The liberal media has long been sticking it to Republicans.
In October 1992, during the presidential race between President George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Investor’s Business Daily found that over 90 percent of the economic news in newspapers was negative. At the time, the economy was well into a recovery, on its 19th consecutive month of growth. Yet much of the business news was sour.
The next month, November 1992, Bill Clinton won. Investor’s Business Daily found that suddenly only 14 percent of the newspapers’ economic news was negative, a dramatic decline in negativity and upswing in positive economic news.
ABC News’ Peter Jennings, NBC’s Tom Brokaw and CBS’ Dan Rather anchored the nightly news for the then-“Big Three” networks on the first day in office of both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. On Clinton’s first day in office, he reversed a President Ronald Reagan policy forbidding the use of federal money for abortions. President Bush reversed Bill Clinton’s reversal.
So how did networks cover each president’s first day on their evening news broadcasts?
The media routinely refers to the recession President Barack Obama inherited as the “great recession.” But during the recession President Reagan dealt with, unemployment hit 10.8 percent, versus Obama’s peak of 10.0 percent. During Reagan’s presidency, prime interest rates hit 20.5 percent, and inflation, which was modest under Obama, averaged 13.5 percent under Reagan in the early ’80s.
Reagan lowered taxes, continued deregulation and slowed down the rate of domestic spending. Obama, of course, did the opposite.
Consider what Roosevelt’s secretary of treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., wrote in his diary: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. … I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot!” Yet high school text books teach us that government spending, what the left today calls government “investments,” pulled the economy for the abyss.
To reverse media bias, President Trump has his work cut out for him. But his press conference was a good start.
The laws of the free market, as with the laws of nature, will always prevail. Politically deluded Americans all bought Chinese imported goods at lower prices and thought they were saving money, all the while running up unemployment costs and cost of non-productivity in manufacturing, into the BILLIONS, covered in a blanket of national Debt into the tens of TRILLIONS, because America no longer CREATED things in manufacturing, just redistributed things , created in the past American wealth lost overseas in lost jobs, living in an illusion of false prosperity, the cost of which was pushed on to future generations in TRILLIONS in debt who will pay for the illusion of a party of prosperity today, with generational debt slavery of tomorrow. This is how socialism works, and why it always eventually goes bankrupt, first is reality, then in morality and later in the definitive failure of its finances followed by the corruption of its government.
What we gained in cheaper chinese goods, we paid for in borrowed national TEN TRILLION in national debt and loss of productive jobs, unemployment and social discord,,a poor exchange. Wake up, the piper always gets paid.over government manipulation because the market always reveals what is real, while the politicians in government just try to delude the people from the reality of their own misguided attempts to refute the laws of the market and cover their own mistakes in the doing. Take the now unpopular but needed taxes on imports to relevel the fairness in trade that was unleveled by Chinese and other’s currency manipulation and slave waged labor.
And what we gained in cheeper goods, we LOST In quality. Notice, that we never saw these levels of auto recalls for defective parts in the 60s to 90s.. BUT have seen lots of recalls since.
Buildings, bridges and roads built in the 20s to the late 80s, are STILL standing, but in many cases, stuff built since, have had to be rebuilt, repaired, resurfaced etc..
HECK when i lived in England, there was a stretch of motorway near my home town that had NOT SEEN a repair/relaying to it, done in 45 years (since the late 30s), but other than some potholes in the side where the dirt met the concrete, it was STILL good.
YET there are DOZENS of other roads that seem to need to be resurfaced EVERY OTHER BLOODY year cause they pothole up like crazy so quickly..
So over due is right..!! The liberal and Leftist media deserve to be vilified..!! They are liars and distorters. They ignore stories that are conservative or twist the information. They don’t deserve the ‘check and balance on democracy’ status that they have been provided.
It is HIGH TIME Conservatives started pushing back against the BLATANTLY BIASED leftist propaganda the WORTHLESS media have been passing off as “news” for decades! If not for media complicity in covering up Obama’s radical background, HIDING his association with KNOWN leftist radicals, etc. I don’t believe he EVER would have been elected. Therefore they are COMPLICIT in his DISASTROUS FAILURE of a Presidency!
After Trump won the Republican nomination in the 2016 Presidential race, they declared him an “unfit” candidate, and seemed to think this declaration gave them license to be as blatantly biased against him as they pleased, because, you know, they were PATRIOTS trying to save the country from an unfit leader–or at least THAT was the narrative they used and have been using since he was elected President to justify their EGREGIOUS leftist slanting of news, and BLATANT ignoring of news that did not fit the leftist narrative. They even COLLUDED DIRECTLY with the Democrats to decide what was, and was not “news.” And ALL their coverage of the Trump administration is RELENTLESSLY negative!
I’d say their comeuppance is LONG overdue, and personally, I’m ENJOYING the hell out of watching President Trump deliver it to them.
This is why i really would love it if you were allowed to DUMP a specific network from your ‘TV cable bundle”.. SO you could show your displeasure by DUMPING these fake news outlets..
I would LOVE to see how CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and such would react if say 20 million Americans all at once had their cable network provider all dump them from their channel line up..