Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell knows all to well that he can appear on any news network and be a hypocrite with impunity as none of them will ever call him out on it.
According to Taxpayers for Common Sense:
http://www.taxpayer.net/resour...n=Headlines%20By%20TCS
McConnell himself added 36 earmarks to the appropriations bill totaling about $51.2 million.
At a news conference on Tuesday, McConnell criticized the Obama administration as continuing a "spending binge".
I am waiting to hear CNN, CBS, ABC, or any of the others call him out on it.
On Feb 23 on CNN, Republican pundit John King allowed McConnell to falsely claim that letting the Bush tax cuts expire for Americans making more than $250,000 would affect a large percentage of small businesses. Not according to the Tax Policy Center:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org...topic3ID=68&DocTypeID=
Last October in McConnells incumbent race, The Washington Post allowed McConnell to peddle the falsehood:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...2196.html?hpid=topnews
"As a result of being chosen by my colleagues to be the Republican leader, I've got people all over America who would love to see me lose, so there's money coming in from San Francisco and Chicago and New York trying to tear down your senator."
Actually McConnell had received $$7,375,958 from out-of-state individuals, 59 percent of his total from individual donors. By contrast, Lunsford had received $570,697 from out-of-state individuals, 39 percent of his total from individual donors.
http://www.opensecrets.org/rac...php?cycle=2008&id=KYS1
On MSNBC Live last April, as host Alex Witt reported on a press conference held by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the on-screen text read: "GOP leaders criticize Dems for delaying vote on Fair Pay Act," falsely suggesting that Republicans wanted to pass the measure. At no point in the coverage of McConnell's press conference did Witt or MSNBC in its on-screen text explain that the Republicans planned to filibuster the bill.
And speaking of the Republican Filibuster, the media continues to hide it from the public for McConnell and the other Republicans. Listen for it on any and all networks. Republicans have used over a hundred filibusters to block legislation since 2007 covered up by the news media. It only takes 51 votes to pass legislation in the Senate, but 60 votes to stop a filibuster so it can be voted on. Here is the news media language language that began in 2007 when the Democrats took the majority in the Congress:
"It failed to get the required sixty votes in the Senate"
"As you know it takes sixty votes to advance legislation in the Senate"
Specific random example:
Jack Cafferty (CNN) Situation Room Nov 16:
"The Senate blocked a Democratic proposal today that passed the House yesterday, the 53-45 vote seven votes shy of what they needed for the measure to advance".
In the summer of 2007 McConnell was allowed to peddle the following on all the networks unchallenged:
"the American people are looking at this Congress and saying, 'Where's the legislation? What are you going to do to make America better?'
Example:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA...707/23/sitroom.01.html
McConnell and the other Republicans know that the networks cover up their lies and that most of the public is brainwashed and ignorant of it.
Yet none of them challenged this lie with: "But what about all the filibusters you routinely use to block their efforts?" Only one report I could find at the time challenged it buried in a McLatchy news article:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/18218.html
According to Taxpayers for Common Sense:
http://www.taxpayer.net/resour...n=Headlines%20By%20TCS
McConnell himself added 36 earmarks to the appropriations bill totaling about $51.2 million.
At a news conference on Tuesday, McConnell criticized the Obama administration as continuing a "spending binge".
I am waiting to hear CNN, CBS, ABC, or any of the others call him out on it.
On Feb 23 on CNN, Republican pundit John King allowed McConnell to falsely claim that letting the Bush tax cuts expire for Americans making more than $250,000 would affect a large percentage of small businesses. Not according to the Tax Policy Center:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org...topic3ID=68&DocTypeID=
Last October in McConnells incumbent race, The Washington Post allowed McConnell to peddle the falsehood:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...2196.html?hpid=topnews
"As a result of being chosen by my colleagues to be the Republican leader, I've got people all over America who would love to see me lose, so there's money coming in from San Francisco and Chicago and New York trying to tear down your senator."
Actually McConnell had received $$7,375,958 from out-of-state individuals, 59 percent of his total from individual donors. By contrast, Lunsford had received $570,697 from out-of-state individuals, 39 percent of his total from individual donors.
http://www.opensecrets.org/rac...php?cycle=2008&id=KYS1
On MSNBC Live last April, as host Alex Witt reported on a press conference held by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the on-screen text read: "GOP leaders criticize Dems for delaying vote on Fair Pay Act," falsely suggesting that Republicans wanted to pass the measure. At no point in the coverage of McConnell's press conference did Witt or MSNBC in its on-screen text explain that the Republicans planned to filibuster the bill.
And speaking of the Republican Filibuster, the media continues to hide it from the public for McConnell and the other Republicans. Listen for it on any and all networks. Republicans have used over a hundred filibusters to block legislation since 2007 covered up by the news media. It only takes 51 votes to pass legislation in the Senate, but 60 votes to stop a filibuster so it can be voted on. Here is the news media language language that began in 2007 when the Democrats took the majority in the Congress:
"It failed to get the required sixty votes in the Senate"
"As you know it takes sixty votes to advance legislation in the Senate"
Specific random example:
Jack Cafferty (CNN) Situation Room Nov 16:
"The Senate blocked a Democratic proposal today that passed the House yesterday, the 53-45 vote seven votes shy of what they needed for the measure to advance".
In the summer of 2007 McConnell was allowed to peddle the following on all the networks unchallenged:
"the American people are looking at this Congress and saying, 'Where's the legislation? What are you going to do to make America better?'
Example:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA...707/23/sitroom.01.html
McConnell and the other Republicans know that the networks cover up their lies and that most of the public is brainwashed and ignorant of it.
Yet none of them challenged this lie with: "But what about all the filibusters you routinely use to block their efforts?" Only one report I could find at the time challenged it buried in a McLatchy news article:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/18218.html
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