THE LYING LIARS OF FRANKEN'S HEROES

It’s not rare that we see the mainstream media protect the President and tout his silly, smoke-and-mirrors and sometimes outright lies - heck it happens every day. What’s rare is to see it on such display as what the people logging onto CNN.com saw today. We were subjected to this opinion piece as the main story of the day.

Our stupid self-inflicted debt crisis

Shockingly, John Avlon blames the Republicans!

“But the blame for this stage of failure lies squarely on the party that unilaterally withdrew from the talks -- and that's the Republicans.”

That’s right, it’s all the Republicans fault - they have only proposed TWO bills, actual vote-able, score-able bills. It’s not the fault of the President or the Democrats who have proposed ZERO, none, nada bills.

Wait, before commenting, there’s more. We get this

“When the bipartisan "Gang of Six" proposal was put forward, it was rejected by some Republicans out of hand despite deep tax cuts and historic entitlement reforms and enforceable spending cuts simply because it was embraced by Obama. “

“Some Republicans.” Exactly who and how many? Why don’t we get those facts? Might it be because there were only two or three out of over 200? I can get two or three Democrats in the caucus that think Guam will tip over or Tigger is cool (OK, maybe that one is right). Pure obsequiousness and willingness to obfuscate to make BHO the real hero of the day.

How about this?

“There is talk of the Obama administration "moving the goal posts" in terms of asking for more revenue increases in the latest negotiations. But moving the goal posts on what constitutes a tax increase is in many ways at the heart of the current disagreement. Arguments for raising the top rate have been dropped until after the 2012 election. The common ground compromise available is tax reform.”

More straw men and confusion. What BHO really did was talk about one number (800 million in new revenue) and then, when it was met, increase it by 50%. That’s what Boehner meant by “moving the goal posts”. One would think a columnist for CNN would know that. Yet, what Avlon does is talk about moving the goal posts as some kind of disagreement over the definition of what tax increase means and lie to make the Republicans look bad.

This is just a small example of Big Media covering for the Chosen One. It would be amusing if it wasn’t so sad and even worse, serious.