The Media That Bashes Obama Today Ignores Their Own Complicity In Bush’s Crimes

[Tx4obama]

The Media That Bashes Obama Today Ignores Their Own Complicity In Bush’s Crimes

A double standard takes the form of an instance in which certain practices are perceived as conventional when applied by one group, but are considered forbidden when applied by another group making them morally unfair applications of the principle that all are equal. Republicans have never considered that all are equal whether it is their practice of giving corporations the ability to avoid paying taxes and raising tax on the poor, or stealing Americans’ pensions and giving them to the wealthy as tax cuts, their disparate treatment of Americans they are supposed to serve is abominable. However, the people should not feel too set upon, because the contradictory standards the GOP applies to the occupant of the White House are just as despicable as their treatment of the American people and the media is as pathetic as Republicans.

One can understand the sentiments of rubes in conservative ranks with mental recall rivaling an amoeba, but the media and Republicans in Congress, who were both part and parcel of enabling Bush practices they condoned and often promoted, certainly are aware that the so-called outrages of the Obama Administration were commonplace and never questioned, much less assailed as scandalous, when a Republican sat in the Oval Office. It is accepted by any thinking human being that Republicans are hurling fallacious allegations at the Obama White House in spite of irrefutable evidence their attacks are nothing more than witch hunts to cover their incompetence and denial over the results of the last election, but the media is woefully complicit in withholding criticism of Republican double standards and have inexorably joined the likes of Fox News, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh and lost all credibility as responsible journalists.

On Thursday, the New York Times joined Fox News in maligning the President by claiming he had lost all credibility because of “breaking news” the NSA “is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon since 2006,” and one cannot help but wonder where the NYT’s outrage was during the Bush Administration when the practice was initiated. Perhaps the NYT was still basking in the afterglow of promoting the illegal invasion of Iraq, but there is little doubt the paper has at least one employee on staff now that ignored the practice seven years ago and is suddenly outraged because there is a Black man sitting where Bush once sat. It is also suspect that the NYT is ignorant of corporate “data mining” and tracking millions of Americans’ daily routines through social media, GPS data, and bank transactions, but maybe they lack access to reports that banks and corporations regularly monitor American citizens, or perhaps it is that it is acceptable to the media because “corporations are people, and those people aren’t…black” that drives them to give a free pass corporate snooping.

That the media is outraged now with a Black President over the “revelation” the NSA collects data when Americans have been monitored since the Bush administration without a freak-out is the media practice of covering up Republicans’ double standards in assailing President Obama. For example; why is the media not reporting that during the Bush Administration the IRS targeted the NAACP, Greenpeace, and a liberal church, or that one third of the groups recently facing extra scrutiny by the IRS were progressive groups; the same percentage as teabagger and patriot organizations? It is not like that information is secret, or only given to liberal media unencumbered by corporate masters withholding advertising dollars.

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Rest of article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2013/06/07/republicans-media-forget-role-enabling-bush.html

I wish Twitter allowed more than 140 characters, I'd love to be able to tweet out the full last paragraph on the link above.
A Good Read

[Gus Lammas]

1. Kick

With enthusiastic DURec!

[Doctor_J]

2. exactly. they are the most dangerous and insidious part of the right

All the more reason that Obama should have dragged all of them into the daylight during 2009 - all of the crime, and all of the media complicity. If he really believed that by turning the page, he would exempt himself from persecution, I guess I should pity his naivete instead of bashing his weakness.

[yurbud]

3. turning the other cheek to GOP dirty tricks worked so well for LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton..

I suspect that he and his predecessors do it not out of naivete or weakness, but because most of the sins of the GOP were doing their corporate masters' business. Democrats are competing with the GOP for the same job, so they will not do anything to the GOP that could also hurt the masters hope will be their future employers.

[Doctor_J]

4. Yeah, this could have been stopped at some point along the line.

Nixon, Reagan, Bush 41 all committed treason. Had any of them been sent for the big swing, I have a feeling things would be different. The fix has been in for a long time

[yurbud]

5. Baby Bush beat them all--he violated the Geneva Convention in more ways than just torture...

His signing statements that contradicted the plain sense of the bills he signed should have been challenged in court, Karl Rove's vote suppression and vote rigging scams should have been prosecuted, Cheney's cooking of the Iraq Intel, and on and on should have done him in if the Democrats in Congress and later the Obama Justice Department had done their jobs.

[yurbud]

6. my short list I sent to Congress (and a lot of other people did too):