ABC News on health care mini-mobs: Both sides are doing it!
August 10, 2009 10:33 am ET by Eric Boehlert
You can see where the coverage--where the media narrative--is heading this week. First the New York Times, and now ABC.
Rachel Martin's lede [emphasis added]:
The debate over health care reform is getting louder on both sides.
It's obvious journalists are more comfortable blaming both sides; pretending that liberals and Democrats are also to blame for town hall free-for-alls where the police are now routinely summoned and Congressmen and women receive death threats.
By adopting that phony (GOP) storyline, and avoiding the truth about how the mini-mobs are a creation of the radical right, journalists know they won't be attacked by the right-wing for displaying "liberal bias." So by ignoring the facts and diluting what's really going on, the press plays it safe. Of course, playing it safe has nothing to do with accurately informing the public. But I'm not sure at this point most journalists even care.
Here, BTW, in its entirety, is ABC's proof that "both sides" are doing it:
The AFL-CIO and other labor unions are urging their members to show up in force at congressional town halls around the country and voice their support of health care reform, as a counterpoint to the conservative protesters. And the liberal group MoveOn.org is using the conservative protests as a rallying cry to their membership in an effort to raise money to fight back.
Union members are being urged to attend town hall forums and MoveOn.org is raising money. At ABC News, that's just like joining a mob, screaming at politicians, hanging them in effigy, and swarming their cars.
Honestly, I'm not sure false equivalencies come more pronounced than that.
If the government is run by Democrats, both sides are at fault.
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If the government is run by Republicans, Democrats are at fault.
ABC should stop getting their news day-old and make some up fresh each morning. Blaming both sides is SO last Friday. Don't you guys at ABC watch FOX?
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019423.php
He needs some perspective on the whole 'universal coverage' concept!
The 2nd part will be the teabaggers protesting for a photo-op as instructed by their corporate masters/string pullers.
Gotcha.
When I was 3 or 4, I learned that the way to form a plural in English is to add the letter 's'. Hence
attendee -> attendees
No apostrophe needed!
When you show up hear making such elementary grammatical mistakes, it makes it much harder for people to take you seriously. It's like wearing a T-shirt that says "Me not educated!"
If right-wing attendees are the ones acting like a mob, then it's entirely appropriate that they be the only ones arrested. To show that this is unfair, you would have to show, for example, that left-wingers went to GOP rallies organized, say, during the Bush administration, and tried to shout down the speakers or make death threats.
Any evidence of that?
'Cause all you've got so far is evidence that Democrats are not being treated like criminals. You haven't shown that this is inappropriate.
A pretty simple rule -- when you criticize spelling/grammar, your post must be 100% correct.
hear- [verb] perceive with the ear; the sound made by (someone or something): behind her she could hear the singing
here- [adverb] in, at, or to this place or position: they have lived here most of the time
When you show up HERE making snarky remarks about grammar you better be darn sure you make no mistakes yourself! It's like wearing a T-shirt that says, "I'm not educated but I act like it on the internets!"