want to allow the FCC to have a fair rule policy. I am all for Free Speech but to allow someone of Limbaugh and Hannitys ilk to hide behind freedom of press to spew out right lies makes me want to puke.
From the LA Times this weekend and what I heard on Thursday's Rush Limbaugh show. A caller wanted to know when Obama would take over everyones 401K. Limbaugh said that yes he has had several people telling him that this would be great. The Government takes over your 401K and puts it into a trust fund. However,
"They're going to take your 401(k), put it in the Social Security trust fund, whatever the hell that is," Limbaugh woofed. "Trust fund, my rear end."
A slight problem with Limbaugh's report: Obama and the Democrats have proposed no such thing.
The proposal, in fact, emanated from a single economist, one of many experts testifying to a congressional committee.
The president-elect has thus far shown as much interest in taking over your 401(k) as he has in moving the capital to Nairobi. (If you look hard, you might find that one somewhere out there in the blogosphere, too.)
To broadcast such a report -- so drained of context as to constitute a lie -- would be a shameless act at any time. But Limbaugh needlessly stirred the fears of the millions he holds in his thrall -- making the 401(k) thievery sound like nearly a done deal. Shameless.
A Bold face lie!!! Yet he can sit behind the golden EIB microphones and spew this crap. Then he hides behind the fact he is not a reporter but an entertainer. I just wish people would wake up and stop believing his lies.
Then there is Hannity from the famous fair and balanced fox network. He starts to praise Obama on one who can reach across the aisle but then asks who is Obama. Then there is this gem.
Mainstream newspapers have filed plenty of unflinching accounts of Emanuel's tough, occasionally ruthless tactics as a Democratic congressional leader and onetime operative in the Clinton White House. That assessment of bare-knuckle partisanship Hannity seized on. But it wouldn't do to report another aspect of Emanuel's record -- his Clintonesque bent for the political center.
So the Fox-man simply created a new persona for Emanuel as, you guessed it, "one of the hardest left-wing radicals on the left."
Ever open-minded, Hannity concluded, "I think they're going to overreach, and I think we're going to see the person that I think Barack Obama is. I think he is hard, hard left."
Then, I kid you not, Hannity ended with this pledge: "We'll see. We'll give him an opportunity."
So let me get this straight. Obama picks a straight talking tough guy who will work to get the Presidents work done and Hannity calls him a Hard Left wing radical. Sure sounds like he is going to give him a chance.
Let's work to make sure we get behind this government and prove these right wing blow hards wrong.