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freshwest

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13. Nothing GOOD that Obama has done has EVER been reported since Day One in 2009.
Sun Mar 30, 2014, 08:39 PM
Mar 2014

We see the results daily, not just in November. The relentless media drive to depress the voting base of Democrats to get them to NOT VOTE and riling up the rightwingers TO VOTE is every day of the week, every week of the year and it takes its toll.

This entire country has been in permanent election mode since the Nixon era. The GOP knows this and their media issues their line of thinking in every venue daily. There is no opposing voice in conservative owned venues, no matter if they throw us a few liberal pundits in to appear fair. And they are increasing their control of media worldwide.

National elections are not all there is, as D.C. is full of people from the red and blue states that have fallen to talk radio, television and cable stations and other organs of propaganda.

They're NOT giving people the tools they need to fight the lies of the GOP and RWNJs. They daily give them more ground. Why don't we admit it on DU and elsewhere that the battle is not just after primaries are done, when the proof is right in front our faces as we report the RW lies?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110215862

In 2010, after death threats and the Koch brothers Tea Party being full coverage all year long, look what they failed to report on:

The truth about the ACA, from 2010! What media refused to show!




President Obama Makes Surprise Call To Gail O'Brien


Uploaded on Sep 22, 2010

President Obama made a surprise call yesterday to Gail O'Brien, a woman in Keene, NH, who is benefiting from the Affordable Care Act, which was passed six months ago today. Gail was previously uninsured and diagnosed with high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Thanks to the new law, Gail now has insurance through the new Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan that will pay for her treatments, and she is responding very well.

That was September 2010 before the midterms. Want to talk about conspiracy? What was on the air the entire year?

The Tea Party and their astroturf protests about the horrors of the ACA and Death Panels, etc. is what all the cable networks went with instead of telling the truth, giving Americans some information they could use.

The 2010 elections were a set up from the Koch brothers to lie about the ACA, fast track Keystone and keep the Bush tax cuts. That led to the Sequester and all the rest. And we are still fighting the lies about Obama and Obamacare after all of this time.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/110219820



Krugman: The ACA Surge Blackout [View all] ProSense Mar 2014 OP
Same huge last minute happened with Romneycare ErikJ Mar 2014 #1
Exactly Blue_Adept Mar 2014 #3
But you guys have Soviet style breadlines now and rationing because of the socialism IronLionZion Mar 2014 #22
We have a propaganda machine that makes North Korea envious Blue_Adept Mar 2014 #23
If you take all the right wingers, and folks on our side who call Obama a POS over the ACA, Hoyt Mar 2014 #2
Krugman hit the nail on the head. Wellstone ruled Mar 2014 #4
You nailed the media focus. n/t ProSense Mar 2014 #6
Democrats need to defend the ACA and stop the stupid denial... jimlup Mar 2014 #5
CNN - I mean Ft370 non-stop malaise Mar 2014 #7
There have been sign-up events happening all week BumRushDaShow Mar 2014 #8
Photos from various events ProSense Mar 2014 #9
I Am Shocked...SHOCKED to Learn Dirty Socialist Mar 2014 #10
I remember listening to Radio Moscow as a kid on my shortwave . They only told the world what they geretogo Mar 2014 #11
Actually CBS radio news said they might get 7 million and there is a lot of action. mucifer Mar 2014 #12
Nothing GOOD that Obama has done has EVER been reported since Day One in 2009. freshwest Mar 2014 #13
And I have noticed that the MSM does not pay much attention to revised economic kelliekat44 Mar 2014 #14
the media is a force for republicans...it should be obvious by now. spanone Mar 2014 #15
Yep. The Mighty Wurlitzer. nt redqueen Mar 2014 #26
Fucking corporatemediawhores.. you'd think they were in bed with koch. Cha Mar 2014 #16
If they get close to original projections of 7 million alcibiades_mystery Mar 2014 #17
Yup. Here's ProSense Mar 2014 #18
''If Obama was as smart as I am, tra la la....'' Whisp Mar 2014 #19
The attempt to ProSense Mar 2014 #20
There was a lot of confusion and people spreading pure BS IronLionZion Mar 2014 #25
Update: ProSense Mar 2014 #21
"...a persistent slant in much reporting toward emphasizing the negatives about health reform." redqueen Mar 2014 #24
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