8/21/12 Words Matter on All Fired Up Radio
Defense Cuts & The WARN Act
When Democrats wanted to raise the debt ceiling in 2011, House Republicans (TEA Party terrorists, according to Joke Biden) fought for spending cuts before they would agree to raise it. Obama and Democrats in Congress demanded raising taxes on this stagnant economy before they would agree to cut a dime of spending. So, all they agreed to before the debt ceiling was raised was a deadline for a “Super” Committee who was supposed to agree on cuts or automatic spending cuts would go into play. Of course, they couldn’t agree to cut spending at all, so as of January 2013 the cuts will be made indiscriminately, half from our defense budget, in “sequestration.” Now Defense companies are looking at layoffs, at least 10,000 of them.
On Greta Van Sustern, Dana Perino interviews Stephen Hadley, national security adviser to George W. Bush.
3:28 to 6:25 – Obama MIA on defense cuts: http://news.yahoo.com/video/opinion-15749653/pres-obama-mia-on-defense-cuts-national-security-30146705.html
Earlier this month Obama’s Labor Department sent out a memo to companies in the defense industry telling them to ignore the notices these firms are required to send when lay-offs are expected. The White House Budget Chief, Jeffrey Zients, defended the Department of Labor advising firms against sending out layoff notices.
The 23-year-old WARN Act requires some employers to send out pink slips 60 days ahead of a “reasonably foreseeable” event — in this case, massive spending cuts to defense and domestic programs… The looming sequester … would trim $110 billion from the federal budget on Jan. 2, 2013. That means some companies heavily reliant upon government contracts would have to notify soon-to-be-terminated workers the Friday before Election Day in order to comply with the WARN Act.
Obama’s Jeffrey Zients was arguing that Congress might fix the problem in the 11th hour, so the DOL is advising these companies not to send the layoff notices. The Dept of Labor in a strictly political move is advising defense companies to violate their own WARN Act, to not send the notices, and at the same time, they offer no guarantees to these companies that they won’t be liable to lawsuits if they take the administration’s advice.
Defense cuts layoff notice dispute sets off tiff: http://www.boston.com/business/news/2012/07/31/defense-cuts-layoff-notice-dispute-sets-off-tiff/3t0eX8AO90KaJxStMHEw2J/story.html
Jeffrey Zients don’t send WARN Act layoff notices before “fiscal cliff”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/jeffrey-zients-warn-act-layoff-notices-fiscal-cliff_n_1730258.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, quotes about Media
He [a U.S. Senator] knows he’s got to buy time on my radio station, so he’s going to lend me an ear. We’re keeping them alive back home and that’s why the newspaper and radio and TV people are more effective lobbyists. Joseph Costello, quotes about Media
There is no such thing as unbiased news. Anyone who tells you their news source isn’t biased, simply agrees with their source’s bias. If you aren’t looking for bias from both sides, as well as the stuff both sides agree on, then you are being fed your news indiscriminately, and you aren’t thinking critically. There is no such thing as unbiased news.
Newsweek
Hit the Road, Jack:
Based on this one article, Newsweek appeared to have been purchased by Rupert Murdoch. They published a cover story with Barack Obama pictured, called “Hit the Road, Barack, Why we need a new president.” It sent the leftwing into a freakout frenzy of damage control. The author of the article is Niall Ferguson.
Niall Ferguson on Sunday’s Face the Nation:
“In sorrow…” Ferguson admits the truth that the media has been glossing over for years under this president.
The controversial Newsweek article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/19/niall-ferguson-on-why-barack-obama-needs-to-go.html
The Blaze posted this Newsweek cover with several others from recent years: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/whoa-newsweeks-latest-cover-may-surprise-you/
Economists for Romney: http://economistsforromney.com/
400 Independent Economists, 5 Nobel laureates support Romney’s plan: http://nation.foxnews.com/romney-economic-plan/2012/08/18/400-independent-economists-5-nobel-laureates-support-romney-s-plan
Charming Newsweek headlines from the past:
Mitt Romney: The Wimp Factor (they pulled that Wimp Factor on Bush senior too)
Michelle Bachmann: The Queen of Rage
Obama: Why are Obama’s Critics so Dumb? & The First Gay President
They had one titled “We are all socialists now.”
A left-wing “fact-check” of Niall Ferguson’s Newsweek article. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/a-full-fact-check-of-niall-fergusons-very-bad-argument-against-obama/261306/
Ferguson smacked down by leftists. Note the “quibbling.”: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/niall-ferguson-smacked-down-over-obama-newsweek-cover.html
Examining the “Liberal Media” Claim, David Croteau, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Sociology and Anthropology, (archived at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), June 1998:
“The findings include:
“ · On select issues from corporate power and trade to Social Security and Medicare to health care and taxes, journalists are actually more conservative than the general public.
“ · Journalists are mostly centrist in their political orientation.
“ · The minority of journalists who do not identify with the ‘center’ are more likely to identify with the ‘right’ when it comes to economic issues and to identify with the ‘left’ when it comes to social issues.”
Today’s political scale places anyone who thinks the federal government is too big and/or unconstitutional on the extreme right — on the media and academic political scale. However, if you are a flat-out Marxist or Revolutionary Socialist (Progressives like Michael Moore), who wants to fundamentally change this country from the individual freedom of a capitalist constitutional republic into a nanny-state with centralized control, completely dismissing the constitutional limits of power, then today’s leftstream media and academia consider you a centrist. The left side of the scale has disappeared in mainstream academic, political, and media vernacular. Leftwing extremist, to the media, is reserved for crackpot mass murderers with undeniable ties to leftwing politicians or groups. University professors in the sociology department, living in their university bubble of Utopian theory, have decided that it’s moderate to be a socialist. So, on the scale that they use to judge our politicians, our media is also centrist. Those reasonable moderate people who want to fundamentally change this country and burn the constitution in the process — the center.
There is no such thing as unbiased media — anywhere. Fox is undoubtedly slanted to the right. The so-called “mainstream media” outside of Fox is slanted to the left. It’s just that the left no longer considers themselves left anymore.
The media today quotes Paul Krugman, a left-wing economist, and declares everything the man says as “fact.” He is one economist with one opinion. One leftist opinion. Thomas Sowell is an economist who consistently disagrees with Krugman, but you won’t see the left acknowledge Thomas Sowell as an expert, because he doesn’t tout their left-wing agenda.
Thomas Sowell exposes Obama’s economic policy consistently, but they don’t tout Sowell’s opinions as fact as they do with Paul Krugman.
Pay attention to who the media touts and how they treat pundits — who gets vilified and who gets revered. No matter which side of the aisle you prefer, there is no such thing as unbiased media. Someone is deciding what’s important enough for you to know and whoever they are, they are using their own agenda priorities to make that decision.
Raw Milk
As government crackdowns on co-ops selling raw milk and children’s lemonade stands continue to make headlines, political and health food activists are raising awareness through Lemonade Freedom Day, which didn’t make headlines.
On August 18, Reason TV went to the National Mall to check out the unlicensed celebration and the trade of illicit raw milk.
Raw Milk protest
I found articles from the Washington Times, The New American, Reason TV, lots of farm trade magazines and blogs like the Daily Caller and the Huffington Post, there were even Occupy sites that publicized this protest. I didn’t see a single network come up in my search engine in 10 pages of search results. This is a pretty bi-partisan issue. There are people who don’t even drink raw milk who are incensed that the federal government is prosecuting and raiding farms for selling raw milk. It is beyond the scope of the federal government, yet even with a plethora of Americans who care about this issue, not a single network news report. It may not be all Republican, it may not be all Democrat, but it is all within an agenda that does not include being a watchdog for this nation. The agenda is to manipulate you to achieve someone else’s goals.
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