President Obama is telling ABC that he expects the Republicans to cave on taxes. ABC News writer Devin Dwyer mischaracterizes the debate entirely.
“I’m pretty confident that Republicans would not hold middle class taxes hostage to trying to protect tax cuts for high-income individuals,” Obama said today in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Barbara Walters.
“I don’t think they’ll do that,” he said of Republicans forcing tax-rate increases for families earning $250,000 a year or less.
That last line is the lie. Republicans are not “forcing tax-rate increases for families earning $250,000 a year or less.” That is not what is holding up the fiscal cliff talks. Republicans all along have supported extending the Bush tax cuts for ALL Americans. Barack Obama and the Democrats are holding the middle class hostage in order to force the Republicans to approve disallowing the tax cuts on the upper couple of percent of taxpayers to expire. In other words, it’s the Democrats who are trying to force taxes to go up. Obama is on that side of the argument, not the Republicans. Republicans object because they see the upper earners as business builders and job creators, and raising taxes on them along with the rest of us would hurt the economy. About a year ago, Barack Obama agreed with that position. Now he doesn’t.
Apparently it’s too much for ABC’s Devin Dwyer and the layers of fact-checkers at that miserable excuse for a news agency to report news that features facts.
One problem with Dwyer’s lying lying is that most of his readers will just accept his lie at face value. That’s how media bias works. Dishonest reporters report lies and the public hasn’t the time to research what they’re reading or hearing, so the few who read it, believe it.
Man, I really hate the media sometimes. They sin by commission and omission. For instance, Obama on Monday totally and shamelessly lied about what Michigan’s right-to-work law does. He just lied through his teeth. The media is not calling him out on that at all. They’re also not calling him out for snaking around his position on the Bush tax cuts, from calling them irresponsible to defending some of them for the purely political angle of making Republicans look like they want to raise taxes.
The point of writing this post? To get Devin Dwyer’s name in Google associated with lying, because that’s what that critical line in his story constitutes.
AT WHAT POINT WILL THE IDIOTS THAT THE GOP HIRES AS CONSULTANTS RECOMMEND THAT WE BYPASS THE MEDIA AND SEND THE MESSAGE STRAIGHT TO THE VOTERS? IT’S THE SAME CRAP OVER AND OVER. BOO HOO, THE MEDIA IS BIASED, WE CAN’T GET OUR STORY OUT, BOO HOO. THERE IS TWITTER, THERE IS SPAM, THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF WAYS TO GET PAST THE MEDIA STONEWALL. WHY AREN’T THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE GOP DOING THAT? HAVE THEY NEVER HEARD OF TARGETTED MARKETING? HAVE THEY NEVER LEARNED HOW WALMART OR AMAZON DOES IT? FOR BIG BUSINESS DUDES AND DUDETTES THEY SURE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BUSINESS. THEY P***ED AWAY HOW MANY MONTHS IN THE CAMPAIGN ALLOWING OBAMA, DWS, AND THE MEDIAL TELL LIE AFTER LIE AND DID NOTHING.
HAVE YOU NOT SEEN STEVEN CROWDER’S VIDEO WHERE HE ASKS POLICY QUESTIONS TO SELF-PROFESSED DEMOCRATS AND THEN TELLS THEM THAT BASED UPON THEIR ANSWERS THEY ARE ACTUALLY REPUBLICANS? SEND OUT MAILERS, PHAMPLETS, WHATEVER TO TARGETTED PEOPLE (ESPECIALLY STUDENTS WHO AIN’T GOING TO HAVE CRAP AFTER 4 MORE YEARS OF OBAMA). YOU NEED TO HIT THE VOTERS CONTINUOUSLY, NOT WAIT UNTIL TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTION.
P.S. – FIRE ALL OF THE DAMN CONSULTANTS THE GOP HAD IN 2012 AND NEVER EVER LET THEM WORK ON A GOP/CONSERVATIVE CAMPAIGN AGAIN.
P.P.S. – QUIT NOMINATING GUYS WHO ARE PERFECT TARGETS FOR THE DEMOCRATS. GOOD GRIEF, A GUY WORTH $150 MILLION? NOW SOME ARE TALKING ABOUT JEB BUSH? JUST WHAT WE NEED, ANOTHER BUSH – DIDN’T THE OTHER TWO HURT THE CONSERVATIVE MESSAGE ENOUGH?
Your capslock is stuck on.
It’s okay. That needed to be shouted.
You got that right, David, the GOP still too into the media. Media has been very instrumental in selecting the GOP nomination, at least they have in the past two races. We need to nip off their influence in some way.
Another thing, whether you did or did not care for Mitt Romney, it had to drive you crazy when the, sickening, media would discuss how Romney was not telling them his plans for governing. Oh, they’d whine, how would he fix the budget? They’d marvel to each other that he had no plan for foreign policy, for cutting the deficit, for managing the military… on and on and on. Oh, yes they had a time of it trying to figure him out. ((This next part should be shouted, for emphasis). Dammit, he’d not only answer with thoughtfulness and clarity, but he had an published entire BOOK* outlinng his thoughts and plans to get America to prosper and to take her place on the world stage. Not just a booklet or pamphlet, can it be possible that the MSM reporters, who were so very much in the dark, did not know of Romney’s book? And of the answers they sought? Or, were they too uptight to pick it up and read it, in other words to do their jobs!!!
By the way, I too would like to see ABC News Writer Devin Dwyer’s name tied to his lie. Own the lie, Dwyer.
* “No Apology: Believe in America” http://www.amazon.com/No-Apology-Believe-Mitt-Romney/dp/B0055X6EPW/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355290204&sr=1-2&keywords=Romney
Interesting post, the sea of media lies washes over and around and is, thus, absorbed into the the low-information voters’ world views. Great to start nibbling or bailing, I guess. This example of ABC News writer Devin Dwyer’s lie contorts the facts in such a way that the liar can weasel out of it, if called out. ABC News writer Devin Dwyer distorting the Republican intention is nothing but a lie, bald faced lie, just like you say.
“That last line is the lie. Republicans are not “forcing tax-rate increases for families earning $250,000 a year or less.” Republicans all along have supported extending the Bush tax cuts for ALL Americans.”
This is what Republicans need to be saying.
“This President is willing to raise taxes on your family and the other 98% of Americans in order to punish small business owners. The Republican party will not stand for it. We’ve passed legislation to keep taxes low for all Americans. We’re asking Democrats and Republicans and Independents who want to keep lower taxes in this weak and fragile economy to flood the White House with phone calls, light up their switchboard and website and make them pass this legislation.”
It really is that simple.
It sure is a mystery why DC Republicans aren’t saying stuff like that. And why they do not make the argument against raising taxes. By not saying why they are against the tax increases – will hurt the economy and most likely lower revenue – they look stubborn and oppositional. I do not get it at all.
Unfortunately, sometimes you just have to take a beating. You just do. But you don’t have to accept, ever, that the beating was right, or that those administerng it deserved their positions of influence and power.
We are going to just have to be patient. More is probably coming. But we do not have to accept that which is not acceptable, if we choose not to.
When the moment comes, be ready.
I’m shocked that gambling is going on in this establishment. Well Mr. Preston you apparently are.
There is no bypassing the media because that is where most swing voters (fence sitters) get their information. They don’t read pjmedia or the Huffington Post.
Sometimes you have to make a strategic retreat and leave scorched earth behind. Let Obama have his blue state/Democrat tax increase. It’s not what he wants. He wants all taxes to go up and blame the Republicans. And knows one more thing. Idiots like Mr. ALLCAPS will scream RINO and sit out the 2014 election so the Democrats can take the House back. You zealots should watch Boss. You might learn something about how the Democrats work.
Yeah, I’ve been criticizing the media for 10 years and I’m “shocked.” Geez.
So why the faux outrage?
tdiinva – I think that Mr. Preston is right – that fact that Demo medacity no longer shocks him is no reason that his outrage at this further example of their lies is “faux” in this instance, or any other. Actually, I’m glad we can still retain the capacity for outrage in the face of so much disappointment, over so many years, in our political and media class.
“Republicans are not “forcing tax-rate increases for families earning $250,000 a year or less.” That is not what is holding up the fiscal cliff talks. Republicans all along have supported extending the Bush tax cuts for ALL Americans. Barack Obama and the Democrats are holding the middle class hostage in order to force the Republicans to approve disallowing the tax cuts on the upper couple of percent of taxpayers to expire.”
In other words the right would rather raise taxes on middle class families than let them rise on the top 1%. Wait isn’t that EXACTLY how the right’s position has been characterized? Yeah, so where is the lie?
Right, you didn’t want people to know you don’t give a damn about them if they aren’t rich. Gotcha.