We find in today’s (Sept. 1, 2011) Telegraph an article titled “Obama job plan already under fire.” It is by Lesley Clark of McClatchy newspapers. The article begins with a whining statement, “Under pressure to move the needle on the nation’s stubborn unemployment rate…” Clark gets to the bottom of the column on the front page before he cites Obama’s talking points, the first set of quotes. We are told what Obama wants and that is to “…put aside politics and start making decisions based on what is best for our country and not what is best for each of our parties.”
We must ask why all the concern about jobs and the voters now. During the first two years of the Obama administration this was the least of his concerns. The Democrats controlled the congress with 58 - 42 percent in the senate and a 59 - 40 percent in the house. It was damn the voter, we are going to cram what we want down your throat.
We all recall Obama’s determination to shove his health care down the voter’s throat. The Telegraph was all for it. Their reporting about the backdoor, closed door deals, the deceit, dishonesty and lies were kept at a minimum. It was the same with the Dodd and Frank-banking bill.
Reasonable people can assume this is why The Telegraph has not reported on the Health Care Waivers and the high poll numbers of the people who disapprove of “Obamacare”. Obama is their man, they endorsed him, and now they have to cover for him.
After the jump in the article to page three, we find out Obama’s intentions. “‘It is my intention’ the president said” to lay out “… bipartisan proposals” in order “…to continue to rebuild the American economy.” There is no note of how the economy has failed to grow or how the figures have been jerked around, higher figures released and then adjusted downward. This has also been the practice with the job numbers.
In the very next paragraph the concern for bipartisanship was subtly dropped as well as the concern “…to put country before party…”. It seems, as if Obama had already made plans in the event he does not get his way. He will use the “…Republican opposition as a 2012 re-election campaign theme…”
Obama is still concerned about the voter, we are not sure just when all this over whelming concern developed. The Telegraph failed to report this. He points out that “…they didn’t vote for dysfunctional government.’" I just don’t remember this concern and if it was there, it was not reported by AP (Associated Press) and The Telegraph.
We were told about the “Timing of the speech’ and how it “was up in the air” on the front page. The fact that it was to be a political speech was saved until page three. Here we find that “The coming speech could be key to Oama’s re-election efforts…”
Then there is the never ending whining about how “Obama is hemmed in by budget considerations…”. But have no fear. There are “68 liberal groups” pressing Obama. They want him “…to go big…” and to go “bold” and for good measure Clark threw in the class warfare element, which has been used ad nauseam. You know “tax the rich”.
It looks as if Clark did not quite feel that the “68 liberal groups” would quite prove the point he is trying to make. Therefore he reaches out to “The Center for American Progress, a liberal policy research center with close ties to the Obama White House.”
They were more than glad to provide what he needed. They had already suggested that what was needed was “$65 billion for infrastructure projects…” as well as a plan “…to reduce the number of U.S. home-mortgage foreclosures.”
Clark contacted “Michael Ettlinger, the center’s vice president…” he knew Ettlinger would provide what was needed to prove the so-called point for his article.
When the idea for the “…use of private and public money for highway and rail construction…” was used, Clark upgraded “interesting concept” to support. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce had called it an “interesting concept”.
Clark's propaganda is right here.
In the very last paragraph “Obama asked federal departments and agencies on Wednesday to identify ‘high impact, job –creating infrastructure projects’ that could be sped up and completed within 18 months”
Very clever, the “shovel ready” projects which failed, have become “High impact, job – creating infrastructure projects.” There is no mention of how the 800 billion plus stimulus package is now a joke to the Obama administration. You can Google “shovel ready joke” and see what you come up with.
Or as Greta van Susteren said: “The president let slip a comment that has a lot of Washington buzzing! Was it a joke that just wasn't funny, or worse? Did President Obama just admit they got it wrong? You remember his colossal $800 billion-plus stimulus package. It was supposed to really rev up our economy and [get] us out of our financial mess.” You can see more on that right here.
Of course if Clark had mentioned anything about the 800 billion dollar failure and how Obama and his crowd thought it was funny, the article would never have seen the light of day on the front page of The Telegraph. President and Publisher George McCanless, Executive Editor Sherrie Marshall and the Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson would have made sure of that. They would have had Kenny Burgamy (ex-banker and lately quite the enabler) to do his thing, a token protest as he did with what we call the 60 percent scam, front page May 12, 2011, which you can see right here. The next morning on the so-called news talk show “News Talk Central” on WGXA 24, which is supposedly powered by “The Telegraph”. Burgamy did a great job with the 60 percent scam. There was something about a poll, a car, and the results etc., etc. and that was his input pertaining to the scam. He was earning his money.
Of course we noticed that The Telegraph, being the fair weather friends they are had abandoned AP, we checked and the reason was obvious. The article by Jim Kuhnhenn, was titled “Obama bows to Boehner, jobs speech will be Sept. 8.”
The AP article noted; that the “address will compete with the opening game of the National Football league season – a conflict the White House wanted to avoid.” Then there was something about allowing the “Republican presidential debates to proceed without Obama upstaging it.”
Kuhnhenn mentions how it affects Obama’s “own political prospects.” Etc., etc. but here you can see it all right here. This was more than The Telegraph could stand and they went story shopping. They have a lot of practice with that, the story shopping we mean.
Have a nice day.
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