Many media conservatives have recently embraced and promoted the accusation, almost in unison, that President Obama has "lied" or broken promises. In many cases, these accusations are based on distortions of comments he has made or misrepresentations of campaign pledges. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The story is typical of Media Matters. Long on accusations, short on facts. It points out two of the many broken promises by Obama and then doesn't even bother to refute the first, and then complains that the second one doesn't really count because he never really promised that. For a better list of his broken promises, see here: http://chrisofrights.blogspot.com/2009/03/obamas-broken-promises.html
The story takes a pattern from the right wing echo chamber and documents it thoroughly. The big lie propaganda concept says if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. The supposedly neutral media is shown here to be a partisan dissembler.
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