Mike Allen reports that as resistance builds against President Obama's extreme left-wing agenda that spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much, Obama counters with propaganda bold enough to match his audacious attempt to move the nation far to the left:
The White House on Sunday began harnessing every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans as reflexively political, according to party strategists.
Obama's aides used the Sunday interview programs to launch the multifaceted and misleading propaganda assault:
- On ABC’s “This Week,” White House economic adviser Larry Summers said the president had proposed a “strategic budget” that “will let us have a sound economic expansion” through a combination of “substantial cuts” and new spending on education, health, energy and environment.
- The president himself plans to carry that message in the coming week, “engaging directly with Congress more, and speaking more forcefully on behalf of his budget,” a top adviser said.
- The Obama grassroots network—now known as Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee—has launched an e-mail campaign to generate support for Obama's extremist agenda.
- The propaganda alliance -- the administration, Congressional Democrat leaders, outside groups and the DNC—are uniting for the propaganda war to try and deflect attention from the size of Obama’s budget and blunt attacks on Obama's lurch to the far left.
Obama's propaganda war, is so misleading it would bring a smile to the originators of the "big lie."
The false idea behind Obama's grand disinformation campaign is that Republicans are just saying “no” to the Obama agenda without offering their own alternative. This falsehood easily qualifies as a big lie. It is simply not true that Republicans are just saying no. As House Minority Whip Eric Cantor told David Gregory on NBC's "Meet the Press," Republicans did offer an alternative to Obama's so-called stimulus bill, and they will issue their own budget proposal in the next few weeks.
According to Allen, the propaganda alliance hopes to at least change the conversation from criticism of the Obama agenda, the fact that Obama is going to raise taxes in the middle of a recession and Obama's socialist tendencies.
Obama has invited the criticism with his huge bailout boondoggle and budget outline that calls for the largest deficit in U.S. history and a doubling of the national debt.
What is it that Republicans are actually saying no to?
- Trillions in new spending.
- Trillions in additional national debt.
- An unpopular, earmark-laden spending bill that the President was too embarrassed to sign in public.
- A new national energy tax.
- Releasing Gitmo terrorists into the U.S.
No wonder Obama must resort to a big lie style propaganda war to support his lurch to the left.
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This website is so loaded with idiots and or whack jobs..but whats scary is..do you numbnuts actually believe the drool coming from your mouth or are you hoping that there are enough idiots that buy into it to make you feel relevant.
Perhaps the neverending torrent of *lies* and propaganda from the desperate right requires a response.
Are you joining the Chuck Norris Revolutionary Army? Are you in one of Glenn Beck's "right wing cells" waiting to wage war on the democratically elected government of the United States? LOL!
The right defies parody.
Oh, snap! Have you noticed the sharp comments lately?
Did you say that Obama's budget "spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much?" Funny how I've been hearing that so often lately:
John Boehner: "It's pretty clear that their budget spends too much, it taxes too much, and it borrows too much from our kids and grandkids."
Mitch McConnel: "We don't think we get out of this recession by spending too much, taxing too much and borrowing too much."
Mike Pence: "And so Republicans are going to make the case that not only does the president's budget spend too much, but it taxes too much, and ultimately, that it borrows too much."
Lamarr Alexander: "We lost the independent voters in both 2006 and 2008, and President Obama won them, and so he's the president, but I believe this is more spending, more taxes, and more debt than most American families expected or most American families can afford."
Pence Again: "We thought given the magnitude of the issues encompassed in the federal budget, this was the right battle to lock arms … to educate the American people about the president's budget — that it spends too much, taxes too much, borrows too much."
Charles Grassley: "The president and his allies in Congress want to spend too much, tax too much, and borrow too much. Somebody has to pay — if not the middle class now, then later. Eventually the middle class gets hit."
Wow, it's almost like every Republican is repeating the same boring, repetitive message in the hopes that people will believe it's true -- and not notice that there is no SUBSTANCE to this argument.
Where do you get off accusing the Democrats of using propaganda, you talking point spouting hack? Does the GOP pay you to repeat their Big Lies for them? Does the term "journalistic ethics" mean nothing to you?
The real PROPAGANDA is this column. Thanks for doing your part to ruin the country, Dave!
no its the facts like the fact that Obama himself has contradicted what he says like one healthcare system but we can keep our individual plans or the fact that we are doing the same thing that spain did as far as green energy and spain is reaping disastrous results economically and for all you who say "a president dosent have that authority" well... have you been paying attention or is the marxist brainwashing that effective im a 26 year old father in a single income family and have no set political stand but this ..mess has me to where i feel i need to keep an eye on what is going on so i can keep my head out of the water
it's only fair one make believe "party" Obama's launches propaganda war against the other make believe socalled party, Republicans. it has become is a hilarious kabuki theater
Yeah you right wing nuts are idiots. Why don't you accept your position in our Goverment's new plan? How could you have a problem with social justice after years of getting special advantages and treatment?
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