The NBC, ABC, and CBS evening newscasts on Tuesday all recited the same White House talking points as anchors and correspondents wrung their hands over the upcoming sequester budget cuts set to take effect on March 1. While all three broadcasts touted President Obama using “dire language” to warn against the cuts – only amounting to less that three percent of the federal budget – none of them noted that it was the President’s idea in the first place. [Listen to the audio]
At the top of NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams sounded the alarm: “Deep impact….deep budget cuts poised to have a major impact on the military, law enforcement, even food inspection.” In the report that followed, correspondent John Yang fretted: “Through 2021, it means cutting $85 billion a year, half from the Pentagon, half from non-defense programs. Everything from education to national parks to Meals on Wheels.” Yang failed to mention the current annual federal budget is around $3.5 trillion.
After Yang hyped the cuts, an exasperated Williams turned to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd and proclaimed: “Do you wonder why people are so deeply angry, cynical, and checked out of our politics?”
On ABC’s World News, anchor Diane Sawyer touted Obama going after congressional Republicans on the issue: “…the President came out swinging today about the effect on American families when the budget axe falls in less than two weeks….the President likened it to a meat cleaver.”
Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl actually noted the planned cuts were “less than 3% of the budget,” but then continued to parrot administration spin: “…but the White House says virtually everybody will be hurt, and we’ll see long lines as TSA agents are furloughed, 1,000 FBI and other law enforcement agents forced off the job, and 70,000 preschoolers dropped from the Head Start program.”
Read More at The Media Research Center . By Kyle Drennen.
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Let er rip…we have to many fed employees anyway, and it’s not a drop in the bucket what it should be…this was the deal between the House and Obama last Dec. they gave him what he wanted in increases and he would obide by the cuts, now mr. prez, start cutting…..it your job to do, the House said that you were to choose what to cut….get after it…….quit your crying about it being the repubs fault or who ever you and carney are gonna blame today.
Exactly, but the Manure Spreading Liberal propaganda Non- News networks are Spewing the Party Line like good party members for their Dear Leader, bunch of SICKO’s.
A meat cleaver?
Are you kidding?
Just more hypercrap!
The Deficit is $1Trillion of a $3.6 Trillion spend (I can’t say BUDGET… have you seen one?)
That is about 29%. of real spend .
Hold on… $85B is about 2% of PLANNED spending… NOT ACTUAL.
POLITICIANS ARE JUST DOING THEIR USUAL MISERABLE JOB OF KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD…. AND PONDERING PEBBLES WHEN BOULDERS ARE RUSHING DOWN!
THEY ARE HYPER MAGNIFYING 2% OF A 29% PROBLEM!
As usual, he and the rest are playing America!
THEY ARE NOT PLANNING ANY/NADA/ZIP/NAUGHT SPENDING REDUCTIONS!
THEY ARE RANTING OVER REDUCING PLANNED INCREASES IN SPENDING.
I posted elsewhere that it is akin to you/me/we “reducing spending” by cutting $100 out of our PLANNED $5000 vacation next year.
Where I come from THAT is an INCREASE of $4900, eh?
More doubletalk, gobbledygook, truespeak from the LIARS in Wash.
Send a note to your Politician telling him to get with it or get out!
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
The ONLY time I watch any of the Liberal Manure Spreading propaganda Non- News stations is when they are Wailing & Moaning about the Deep cuts and backing Obozo, then it is Entertainment for me as I Laugh, Laugh. They are about as Serious as a Fart.
obama, you wanted sequester, you got it. Quit crying.
[[[While all three broadcasts touted President Obama using “dire language” to warn against the cuts – only amounting to less that three percent of the federal budget – none of them noted that it was the President’s idea in the first place.]]]
Wont do any good for Obama to say this back then.. he will deny he ever said it at all… even when Fox News shows the video of him saying it… he is skinless, brainless, and hopeless…. yet all the blacks and Mex.. voted for him cause of him BUYING their votes by giving them things they wouldnt normally have or worked for…
Just Like The Fiscal Cliff