Jason Stverak
Breitbart.com
Big Journalism
20 Oct 2012
…If newsrooms and newspapers had asked their junior reporters or college interns to actually read the bill, they could have reported the facts instead of partisan speculation on the legislation’s content. This should have been the highest priority for the media – educating the public and, dare I say, elected officials who eventually voted on a bill they never read. The press failed to uphold this fundamental standard of its profession.
It is important to recognize that not all journalists and media outlets neglected their responsibility. New media outlets and citizen journalists in the blogosphere reported facts that the mainstream press neglected to mention. To this very day, the public will only find the truth from new media and nonprofit news outlets.
What you will learn from this alternative press of non profits and citizens is that Obamacare contains multiple tax increases. When called out, politicians try to spin the truth by calling them fees or penalties, instead of what they are ….. taxes.
It should be the job of the media to cut through the political spin and present the public with the facts. Jefferson believed that, if both sides of an issue are presented to the people, the public will ultimately make the right decision. Unfortunately, they aren’t getting the facts from the network news broadcasts or newspapers with an editorial bias like the New York Times.
Here are the facts on some of the tax increases that weren’t supposed to exist…
Read the complete article at Big Journalism.
Update: In Britain’s Liverpool Pathway We Get A Preview Of Obmacare And Hell
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. HumphreyIt isn’t often that I open a story with a quote from a liberal but, as a Catholic, I have a great deal of affinity for Hubert Humphrey. As you read this you’ll see just how far the modern left has strayed from the liberalism of FDR, John Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson…
Issa To Subpoena Health Dept for Obamacare Documents
Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is now on notice that her agency will be subpoenaed for documents for a program Rep. Darrell Issa says hides the effects of Obamacare.
The Department of Health and Human Services had a chance to repond without a subpoena but made an “embarrassing” attempt, according to Issa.
“Basically somebody hit a button and said print out a bunch of spreadsheets in an illegible format,” Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Fox News. “So we will be issuing the subpoena.”…
