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Friday, December 07, 2018

It's a lie — except when Obama says it

" The Truth Matters Now More Than Ever" is not just the design on a $300 graphic tee, it is also a new motto the New York Times adopted after former President Barack Obama left office. This timing highlighted the unavoidable truth that the news media slumbered through the Obama years.

The sharp eye and investigative fervor the news media takes towards Trump today is a great thing. Too bad it was absent during Obama. To show this, I often use an example from my beat in the early years, lobbying.

Barack Obama said in his first State of the Union address, "we have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs." This was false. Obama had hired at least 40 lobbyists for policymaking jobsby the time he said this, including a Goldman Sachs lobbyist as chief of staff at Treasury, and a Swiss banker lobbyist at the IRS. Yet when the New York Times wrote up his speech, they referred to that discussion of lobbyists without mentioning the brazen lie. When the Washington Post more recently "counted" Obama's lies, they didn't count that lie, becauseObama had excluded some lobbyists.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The fact is that Obama is a stuffed shirt idiot that the elitists put up and got elected to further their agenda.

Anonymous said...

Obama's lies and the scandals in his admin are too numerous to list. What's amazing are how an overwhelmingly number of blacks still idolize him. What an immoral race they have become. If they had any morals and any decency they would be ashamed of themselves. What else is amazing is they can't figure out why their youth are slaughtering each other in record numbers. They act like it's some kind of great mystery. It's because of the complete lack of morals in the race but their lack of any decency and their failure to value honesty prevents them from admitting the truth.

Anonymous said...

Nearly everything he said was the opposite of what he did. If u listened to the MSM u would never know. Very frustrating time.