Republicans Lash Out At Media Coverage Of Shutdown

[CatWoman]

With a tsunami of bad press hitting them, the GOP blasted the media's coverage of the government shut down on Tuesday.



The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent out a press release criticizing the tone and angle of the coverage:

Last night, hundreds of reporters, journalists, and pundits analyzed a shutdown - well, let's be honest, a slowdown - of the Federal Government in real time. NBC News broke in live at 12:01 to discuss it (we're going to guess the same didn't happen when the government shut down 12 times while Democrat Tip O'Neill was Speaker). There was a pack countdown to shutdown, then a pack realization that nothing noticeable immediately happened at midnight, then a collective period of overtired people cracking jokes and making long-term political prognostications.



There was also the fact that Obamacare, the law Republicans were supposedly trying to stop in its tracks, proceeded unabated on Tuesday morning, giving the GOP an extra poke in the eye by the mere virtue of its existence. Newspapers and networks from Fox News onward all had to contend with the reality that, politics aside, Obamacare had gone into effect, and they had to tell their audiences what that would mean. Thus, Democrats got a boost in coverage without even trying.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/republicans-media-shutdown_n_4023389.html?ref=topbar

[madrchsod]

1. they remind me of my two year old granddaughter

when she gets caught doing something i told her not to do she starts screaming and rolls around on the floor.

and just like my granddaughter they don`t like the spanking they are getting.

[colsohlibgal]

13. Exactly

My first thought was I've seen this kind of behavior before - with my kids, when they were two or three. By four or five they were mostly past that - apparently it's still an issue with people like Marsha Blackburn and Ted Cruz.

[liberalmike27]

27. Funny

I've been thinking about how right-wing much of the coverage has been, the false equivalency argument again.

Did anyone see SNL? I thought it was incredibly biased to Republicans, making the point the ACA was confusing, and putting on people who seemed to be intent on bilking it.

"Liberal media" is just tired, old, BS.

[Flatulo]

25. Do you really spank your granddaughter?

I never had to spank my child, and I'm glad of it.

I'm hoping you were using some hyperbole.

[mnhtnbb]

2. They can dish it out but they can't take it. Bunch of whiny, bullying, a$$hole$.

[malaise]

3. Delish

[CatWoman]

12. ...

[malaise]

35. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahha

Looks like they're taking orders from Cruz

[geek tragedy]

4. You can tell they're losing when they start whining about the media nt

[Dawgs]

5. Just read this on TP comment section...

Repugnicans: "Mr. President, you must let us kill the Affordable Care Act."

Obama: "No way. Can't we come to some kind of compromise?"

Repugnicans: "Sure. As long as you let us kill the Affordable Care Act."

Obama: "No."

Repugnicans: "Look, everybody! Obama refuses to compromise!"

[graywarrior]

6. They should be happy their flesh isn't being torn from their bones....yet

[City Lights]

7. What whiners!

Diaper changes all around!

[jsr]

8. Terrorists Lash Out At Media Coverage Of Hostage Taking

[StrictlyRockers]

9. Whiners!

Big babies!

[CatWoman]

10. ...

[StrictlyRockers]

40. Oh, that's good, CatWoman.

That's good.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. When did the government shut down 12 times in the 1980's

Never heard about those?

[CatWoman]

14. of course it happened

On Bullshit Mountain

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. awesome!

thanks!

[JHB]

17. Link to 17 previous shutdowns (back through Ford)

Another case of teabaggers trying to rewrite history by being technically correct but wrong on the actual substance of the matter in the context of today's politics (like when they try to point to pre-Southern Strategy voting patterns to pretend the Dixiecrats didn't become the Dixipublicans).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/25/here-is-every-previous-government-shutdown-why-they-happened-and-how-they-ended/

Here is every previous government shutdown, why they happened and how they ended
By Dylan Matthews, Published: September 25 at 9:00 am

Since the modern congressional budgeting process took effect in 1976, there have been a total of seventeen separate government shutdowns (or "spending gaps" in Hill jargon). Given that we appear to be headed for another one imminently, let's look back at those experiences, the political circumstances around them and what happened as a consequence. Most of the specifics were drawn from The Washington Post print archives, which you can access for a modest sum here.

It's also important to note that not all shutdowns are created equal. Before some 1980 and 1981 opinions issued by then-Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, a failure to fund some part of the government didn't necessarily mean that that part of government would stop functioning. Civiletti's opinions interpreted the Antideficiency Act, a law passed in 1884, as meaning that a failure to pass new spending bills required government functioning to shut down in whole or in part. So the "shutdowns" listed below that happened between 1976 tand 1979 did not always entail an actual stop to government functioning; they were often simply funding gaps that didn't have any real-world effect.

Listing of all 17 cases follows.

[jeff47]

36. Thanks for the great link. (nt)

[C_U_L8R]

44. So their excuse for this mess is...

All the other kids got to do it????

How pathetically republican.

[LisaLynne]

15. They don't like it when people tell the truth. nt

[Roland99]

16. Reap what ye sow, fuckers!

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Excuse me while I reach for the Kleenex: NOT

[FSogol]

19. Blame the media is step one in their playbook.

[2naSalit]

20. Oh Puhleeeze!!!

somebody call the Whaaaaambulance!

[titanicdave]

21. I Can Hardly

keep from laughing right in the rethugs faces........in fact..........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[ruffburr]

22. I have an idea-

We should all send all the re pubs a box of pampers and some binky's and send them to their rooms (states) for a time out.

[oldandhappy]

23. I have seen a lot of facts

since the build up and then actual midnight deadline. Hard for them to deny facts, but they do!! Faux News is full of it today.

[judesedit]

24. The rw sheep are so brainwashed by FoX they don't even know Obamacare IS the ACA Affordable Care Act

What fools, I'm sorry to have to say. Many of these poor suckers are uneducated Americans. The FAUX Noise creeps should be ashamed of themselves for spreading pure bullshit and just plain hate.

[Rex]

26. When GOP operatives are getting desperate

then could it be? The final end of the GOP? One can only hope.

[liberal N proud]

28. There is some shit even the "librul" media will not shovel

[meadowlark5]

29. Another temper tantrum?

How can the shut down the media and only agree to open it when they get positive media coverage?

[kelliekat44]

30. I don't see it. Which media are they talking about. All the coverage I hear gives cover to the GOP

[Chaco Dundee]

31. two years olds

My boys where not different in any way.they threw there tantrums even when they knew they where dead wrong.that was what hurt the most.but they grew and learned.this is one proud father who knows what they achieved.three dems I can count on.

[lpbk2713]

32. As always, deflecting accountability.

Ever notice how, no matter what, it's never their fault?

Yet they are always quick to point their gnarly fingers
at anyone else other than themselves.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. It's a "gentle sedation" of the Government, not a shutdown... like going to the Dentist!

[Turbineguy]

34. Too bad Osama bin Laden is dead

he could have thanked the Republicans.

[Javaman]

37. in other words...

"stop reporting our gross ineptness!"

[Politicalboi]

39. Welcome aboard the

Carnival Cruz trip. Heading toward a reef near you.

[hatrack]

43. With a special Norwalk Virus Welcome Aboard! package for each participant!

[Downtown Hound]

41. The age old cry of a loser: "It's the media's fault!"

Funny how Republicans say that a lot.

[hatrack]

42. Yes, because it's either the liberal media elite's coverage, or the messaging!

That darned messaging! Which was really the only reason they lost in 2006, and 2008, and 2012.

It wasn't the fact that they're a bunch of wackdoodles, venal perverts, callous assholes and gun-dragging troglodytes, out to ensure that the government they so love to hate, and so want to control, can't get anything done.

It wasn't the fact that they not only represent the young-Earth creationists, the tin-foil hat UN Black Helicopter brigade, the followers of oleaginous snake-handling money-Hoovering television preachers and self-righteous Randroids inhabiting parental basements from sea to shining sea, it's that they themselves are what they represent.

It wasn't the fact that a majority of Americans are sick and tired of bullshit after thirty years of self-fellating, self-reverential hagiographies about Ronald FUCKING Reagan and the glories of Standing Tall and Morning In America, along with its lesser-known stepchildren, Cutting Taxes, Ignoring AIDS, Gutting Manufacturing, Destroying Public and Mental Health Programs, Canonizing Wall Street, Demonizing Black People, Brown People and (eventually) Poor People (of any color) and Enshrining Ignorance, Fear and Greed.

No, no - it wasn't any of the above. It was the messaging!