All they are doing are improving Fox's ratings.
And as Glenn Beck suggested today, this new attack by the WH is probably nothing more than another distraction for people to focus on while they cram socialized medicine down the American peoples throat. And for those who buy into the argument that FoxNews isn't news, media watchdogs would disagree. In fact, multiple analyses of the media during the campaign and election indicate that FoxNews "news" shows were the most balanced on TV. The latest attack by the WH on FoxNews, combined with their attacks on Conservative Radio personalities like Limbaugh and Hannity, and new FCC plans to regulate the Internet, all the while suggesting that liberal newspapers may be bailed out, suggests that this WH is more focused on a unified perspective in the news, and not the diversity that it claims to want throughout our culture.
One good sign that won't get a lot of MSM attention. A cloture vote was done today on what the Dems are calling the Medicare "Doctor Fix". This is another rabbit out of a hat bill that magically spends $247 billion that we don't have to finally fully reimburse doctors for their Medicare patients they've been getting short-changed on. A good reform, but a reform that both highlights a major problem with government run plans, and highlights the fact that doctors have been forced to spread their Medicare reimbursement losses to other paying patients.
But here's the rub. Two weeks ago Senate Democrats asked the CBO to score the Baucus Bill. They did so before the bill had been put into legislative (legal) language and with a myriad of cost suppressing assumptions and criteria aimed at artificially suppressing the scored cost of the bill. Dems have placed an arbitrary $1 trillion price-tag on Healthcare reform over the next decade; a sort of self-imposed acceptable cost they hope the American people to agree with. I certainly don't! So the CBO scored the bill at $829 billion over tens years. New taxes on employers, and penalties levied on the uninsured would start immediately, but the actual implementation of the programs wouldn''t start until 2013, so the score is flawed anyway. 10 years of taxes and penalties to pay for 5 years of a blossoming government expansion of health care. In the following decades this bill would cost $2-$3 trillion each decade, but Dems have ignored that.
Anyway, the Dems didn't want this $247 Doctor Fix to push the CBO score about that arbitrary and magic $1 trillion, so they simply decided to put it in a separate bill so it wouldn't count against healthcare reform.
So today they had a cloture vote that requires 60 votes to send it to the floor. And miracle of miracles occurred; 12 Democrats voted NO on cloture. Now whether principled, or simply under extreme pressure from their constituents, this was a serious blow to Obamacare.
Again, you won't read much about it. Everyone's talking about the WH attack on FoxNews.
While I'm here I'll also disagree with Left Foot. While Beck and Hannity oppose Democrats vehemently, Beck thinks little better of Republcians, while O'Reilly is all over the map. But these shows are not news shows, and independent studies have shown that FoxNews is more balanced than the rest. So if you believe FoxNews is populated by Republican hacks, studies would suggest that the rest of the media is far more biased in the other direction.
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