Media Matters: Asymmetrical class warfare

[babsbunny]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200902270020

by Jamison Foser

The media are outraged at the "class warfare" supposedly present in President Obama's budget plans. In the past few days alone, Michelle Bernard said Barack Obama "was almost declaring class warfare" in his speech to Congress; CNBC's Carlos Quintanilla said, "I don't want to call it class warfare, although that's what it may end up being in the end, this debate over wealth redistribution"; the AP's Jennifer Loven asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, "Are you all worried at all that that kind of argument, that 'class warfare' argument could sink the ability to get some of these big priorities through?" Politico ran a Jeanne Cummings article headlined "Class warfare returns to D.C." And this afternoon, MSNBC joined the pile-on, with a segment asking: "Is there a war against the wealthy? Do we have a class war developing?"

[KharmaTrain]

1. The Ugly Truth...

It IS Class warfare...it has been since the "Raygun Revolution" declared war on unions and the middle class. Ain't it somethin' that a year ago, if you discussed this topic with a repugnican...the falling incomes of the middle class and the little help the boooosh "stimulus" did in helping them, WE were attacked for calling it Class Warfare. So what's changed? Other than the GOOP losing power and now scared its gonna have its corporate welfare system dismantled.

[Jamastiene]

3. Reagan said there should be two classes of people:

rich and poor. He declared war on the middle class. The Republicans have perpetrated it ever since. It seems like every time we say something about it, they start yelling class warfare. It's strange that the middle class and the poor never can get a shot in edgewise, or even dare speak up about it without being branded as horrible people. It's about time we ignore their cries of class warfare and demand to be treated like human beings.

[SpiralHawk]

2. The corporate Republicon-media propaganda cabal has its official Talking Points

in it's ongoing efforts to make America FAIL. They are all on the same page with their propaganda. As usual. No need to think. Just parrot the Republicon Party propaganda line as obedient 'journalists' and sit back smirking, watching your Propaganda Puppetry help America to fracture and FAIL.

[ThomWV]

4. War against the wealthy? WTF is that? This financial meltdown is the first barrage from the top

We, the small guys are getting our guts shot out by the super rich who run every single aspect of the nation's financial system and somehow it is us who is waging war against them? What in all the fucking that has ever taken place (WTF to the Nth) is wrong in that notion?