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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Peter Henry
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 by Peter Henry - Oct. 20, 2009

My crap detector went off, big time. The premise of this opinion piece is that mainstream media is being too lenient on Obama and too harsh on his critics. Huntley's main fault is laziness. He makes assertion upon assertion but fails to provide documentation. For example, about Rush Limbaugh: "He was smeared on CNN and MSNBC with false accusations of making two racist comments." Maybe so, maybe not. But you won't find those comments here, nor any refutations. What a load of crap.

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