Excuses wearing thin for Obama, media pals

Chicago Sun Times by Steve Huntly | Oct. 20, 2009 (Opinion)

Have you heard the news? President Obama inherited an economic mess from the Bush administration.

You say that's hardly news? But it's been the message sounded over and over by the White House. Top Obama adviser David Axelrod said on one of the Sunday news shows, "He walked in the door, we had the worst economy since the Great Depression." In San Francisco, Obama talked of being "busy with our mop." White House heavy hitter Rahm Emanuel used the ... Full Story »

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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 20, 2009

This partisan opinion sounds more like a conspiracy theory than good journalism. In this rambling and disjointed article, the author implies that the Obama administration is working with its "media allies" at CNN and MSNBC to demonize its opponents and damn 'Americans as racist, unpatriotic and treasonous.' This column provides no real evidence to back up these assertions -- other than a laundry list of unrelated news events -- and the author makes no attempts to present the other side of the argument. Uninspiring, inaccurate and black-and-white interpretation of a complex topic, which deserves a more factual, nuanced and intelligent analysis.

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