CQ Politics | Liberal Thinkers Encourage Spending on Ambitious Projects to Revive Economy

With the economy looking bleaker by the week, it has seemed as if Barack Obama might have to wait on some of the ambitious initiatives he proposed during his campaign, such as attacking global warming and pursuing national health insurance. The massive government spending the president-elect has prescribed for the recession, though, has given liberal and environmental activists hope that in stimulating the economy he might still carry out some of these ... Full Story »

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by Doug Greer - Jan. 6, 2009

This article has good structure and the quotes are put into context but the context is nowhere near reality or balanced. This article is a good example of an attempt by the "Washington Consensus" to be "fair and balanced".

Any article which bandies about the term liberal tends not to have quality content. A common technique of these types of pseudo-journalists is to give one quote from what they consider to be a "liberal" source and then "balance" the quote with several quotes from extremist organizations like the Americans for Tax Reform and one or more politicians associated with those extremist organizations.

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