I love hypocritical media

[_ayn_]

This was too good to not repost (lifted from Michele's LJ):

Subject:You Have to Love Our Media

And the beat goes on and the nay-sayers persist in their intractable denial.

Headlines On This Date 4 Years Ago:"Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops Die in unarmored Humvees

Comments

[squidflakes]

A quick Lexus Nexus search turns up no news items with the headlines you mention. That's ok though, I know where they come from. Sean Hanity took it upon himself to lie or repeat a lie, I'm never quite sure with that guy

[_ayn_]

Sorry for criticizing your Messiah (I have a lot of nerve, I know) and for thinking that maybe it'd be wise during times of economic crisis for a "president" to maybe control some spending on frivolous things such as inauguration parties.

[squidflakes]

Snark aside, the president has very little control over the Presidential Inauguration Committee or their preparations and spending.

If you read those articles, you'll notice that the government funded (and thus tax payer funded) spending was pretty much on par between Bush and Obama. The GAO (Government Accountability Office) has a budget line item for the PIC that gets spent every four years, and if it were to be lowered it would have to be done by Congress, not the President.

In the same vein, the after parties were all funded by private donations. I certainly would have preferred those donations to go to a worthy cause (and for me, that would be education or scientific research) but it is none of my concern what people do with their own money.

[_ayn_]

My whole entire point was over media agenda and hypocrisy, NOT with the presidents themselves really...at least in this post. It is a fact that the media critisized the Bush administration for how much it spent on the inaugural proceedings and has yet to say anything negative about Obama, who spent far more. Feel free to correct me on that matter if I am mistaken.

[miaka2u]

Ahahaha! I've seen this posted three times now. How awesome is that. Those are real headlines, by-the-way. Lexus Nexus doesn't updated information for weeks or months at a time, so don't think those aren't truthful or repeated lies.

Regardless of the money issue between how much everything costs between the inaugurations, we're in even more of a economic downturn now than we were 4 years ago. It shows just how much people are caring about their financial state. They'd rather go out and party it up for one night and expect the new "president" (I don't count him president under he gets the oath right WITH the Bible) to fix all their bills and taxes... not going to happen people. I'm stick of people using welfare as an excuse. Party it up America and waste, waste, waste. That's exactly what our nation is full of right now.

[_ayn_]

EXACTLY. I see it as a huge waste, regardless of where the money came from. Then again, this IS the Messiah we're talking about here, haha. xD Just let the people drink their kool-aid Michele, we only have to sit it out for four years. :3

[squidflakes]

"Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft"

No paper in the U.S. would publish that headline. Those quotes are from blogs or OpEd pieces.

[miaka2u]

XD No, you should see some of the papers published in NOLA and you'd definitely disagree. Freedom of speech is a constitutional right.

[inuyatta]

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200901170003

Anne, I understand you're still bitter about this, but I'd really love to hear more about your everyday life rather than hear you rag on a man who has been president all of 3 days. Granted, he's done some pretty awesome things thus far, but really, I don't know him personally. I know you, personally. Or at least, I hope I still do.

[_ayn_]

My intention wasn't to rag on him, it was to illustrate how biased the media is...hence the title "I love hypocritical media" for the entry.

Though geez I swear, it's like no one is allowed to say anything negative about Obamessiah. It's like Soviet Russia now. x_X

[inuyatta]

The media certainly is biased--both ways, as the sources seem to state. This is not news, exactly.

Hardly, Anne. It's just disconcerting that just about every other post out of you recently has included an unsubstantiated stab, either directly or indirectly, at someone. That's a lot of negativity towards one person who hasn't done anything to you. To be honest, you could replace Obama's name with anyone's name--yes, even Isaac, and my sentiment would be the same: Enough about how you hate/dislike/cannot stand this person, tell me about things that make you happy.

[miaka2u]

AHAHAHAH @ the last comment! That just made my day. Just get ready to be called racist very soon. It's already been done to me more than enough times and I am most certainly not racist in the least.

[ranchan03]

I don't know if this helps in anyway but
http://www.pic2009.org/page/content/donors/ I found that all the people that donated for the inauguration.

Sure 120m was spent but some of it came from obama's campaign, and some of it came from donations. What's wrong with citibank donation of 8 million? They wanted to donate it of their own freewill.

And i leave with this quote

"The things that have plagued man since the beginning of time, will always be the same..

greed, envy, false witness, deceit..

Partisan people don't care about facts, they are too busy pointing at the "other" guys."

[_ayn_]

My ENTIRE problem with it is that the Bush administration spent far less on their inauguration festivities yet received criticism...and no one said a word when Obama spent more. It doesn't matter where the money came from. When a nation is in economic crisis, it's not the time to throw a $120 million inauguration party regardless of the circumstances, it's a waste. To me, it's just a demonstration of how my hard-earned tax money is going to be spent (frivolously) for the next four years.

[inuyatta]

Except the Bush administration really didn't, as my source stated. The figures reported for Bush are actually omitting the cost of security, while Obama's inauguration costs included the estimates for security.

You wanna know Bush's actual tab for his 2005 inauguration? About $157 million. If you wanted to compare that to Obama's current estimate of about $150-170 million, depending on whose guess, you should also factor in the rate of inflation. Bush's 2005 $157 mill. would equal about $170+ mill. in 2009 dollars.

The media is definitely biased, and also quite lazy--just not in the way you initially thought it was.

[ranchan03]

actually, your tax money went into security. Around $115

I don't believe that any of your tax money went into the inauguration party. Since it was money from his campaign donations and other donators that raised money for the cause.