Dozens of news outlets and conservative blogs repeated the same headline verbatim (or nearly): “Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns“. The same story over at FoxNews and blogs and news outlets. Oliver Willis catches one conservative trying to backtrack without admitting the error and calls it as he sees it:
The jobs problem in the USA is one of our most pressing issues, it affects us all very deeply, and President Obama’s speech on the issue was one of the most important of his presidency. Here’s Dana Milbank in his article titled “The Irrelevancy of the Obama Presidency” in the Washington Post today:
It’s been difficult for the Tea Party faithful to simply admit that yes, they do have racists among them. Every party does, why should they be any different? It obviously doesn’t mean they are all racist any more than it means that Democrats or Republicans are all racist because they have racists in their ranks. [...]
Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania has gone after President Obama for deciding to appear on the daytime talk show “The View”: I think there’s got to be a little bit of dignity to the presidency. [...] I think there are some shows. I wouldn’t put him on “Jerry Springer,” too, right? … I think the [...]
Is health care a right or a privilege? Here’s the answer: May 12, 2009 Dear Mr. President, I wanted to write a few final words to you to express my gratitude for your repeated personal kindnesses to me — and one last time, to salute your leadership in giving our country back its future and [...]
If you haven’t watched Bill Moyers on Real Time with Bil Maher, it’s worth watching. The point that conservatives are simply employing a scorched earth campaign to insure that Obama fails is important, and has to be confronted. And, he covers corporatism as well. Part 2 Part 3