WHY Obama LIES to the American People....

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....because,  "He knows these are lies and he tells them because he is confident the left wing 'news' media will let him get away with it.  Worst still, Obama used these lies to play on Americans greatest fears and vulnerabilities."


"Barack Obama will not stop committing serial dishonesty with the American people until the media expose his false figures and bogus exaggerations for what they are: fraudulent scare tactics. Last night Obama told a litany of lies. He said the total cost of his health reform would be $900 billion over ten years, but even the government-run Congressional Budget Office found it would cost $1.6 trillion. He claimed his reform would not cover illegal immigrants or abortions, but nothing in any of the Democrat bills requires citizen verification and several organizations including the National Right to Life Committee have shown exactly how federal funds would be used to pay for abortion-on-demand. He knows these are lies and he tells them because he is confident the left wing 'news' media will let him get away with it. Worst still, Obama used these lies to play on Americans greatest fears and vulnerabilities. He warned that more people would die unless we passed his sweeping plan and threatened that our country's economic pulse would weaken with American businesses closing. And still, the media let him get away with it. This must stop. The media must expose Obama's calculated scare tactics and lying on 'reform.' Failing to do so gives him a green light to lie and cry wolf about whatever he wants, whenever he wants. And it will aid in the most radical government takeover ever attempted in America." --Media Research Center


Media are Earning Mounting Distrust of Americans
September 15, 2009 09:58 ET

Alexandria, VA – Today Media Research Center President Brent Bozell responded to the new biennial media attitudes survey released by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press that found "the public's assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades."   

"The media have earned every last drop of a growing majority of Americans' disdain and distrust.  Blatantly biased, false and lazy reporting plagues network television and our nation's left-wing newspapers. And some of these entities are adding insult to injury by demanding financial bailouts from the American taxpayer. 

"If the liberal broadcast networks and newspapers refuse to acknowledge they have become a victim of their newsrooms' own prejudices, they will continue to flounder until extinction.   Alternative media are no longer just competing; they are outshining with solid, balanced and trusted coverage."


Highlights of the survey findings include:


•    Political Bias – In 1985, fewer than half (45%) said news organizations were politically biased, while 36% said they were careful to avoid bias. Today, by greater than two-to-one (60% to 26%), more say the press is biased.

•    Liberal Bias – Americans have overwhelmingly identified bias as liberal-leaning both in 1985 and today. About twice as many said the press was liberal than conservative (40% vs. 19%) in 1985 and that continues to be the case today by a margin of 50% vs. 22%.

•    Lack of Accuracy – Today just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate – a drop in confidence since 1985 when 55% of Americans polled said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate.


Pew Poll Shows Public's Plunging Confidence in Fair, Accurate Media

The full Pew Research Center survey is accessible online at:  http://people-press.org/report/543/