Friday, July 29, 2011

RE Our Default and Toxic Media ...

RE Our Default and Toxic Media

Journo 101

I accidentally DVR’d the President’s speech on Sunday night. I didn’t watch the speech itself, because I don’t watch any speeches these days, but I did catch Brian Williams’s (MSNBC) intro to the speech and it was an eye opener. Here’s my transcription of the intro with Williams’s verbal emphasis bolded:

    President Obama has requested air time from the television networks tonight to speak from the East Room of the White House and tell the American people that unless the debt ceiling is raised the US will suffer incalculable damage and the economy will default. And in keeping with the back and forth nature of what has become a toxic debate in Washington, two minutes after the Presidents finish we will go to the Speaker of the House.

The “economy will default”? What the hell? And since when is the opposition response considered part of a “toxic” debate? [Shannon Love]




1 comment:

Cheesy said...

Exact same scare-mongering as was used to pass the "Stimuli" bills. And those certainly were great successes, weren't they?

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