Media Bias used to feed the Ignorant – Jim Bunning makes a valid point
It has been called grandstanding. It has been called his lash hurrah. It is being called a lot of things.
None of it is accurate from the media reports that I have been reading.
Here is what is being reported. Senator Jim Bunning, Republican from Kentucky, is blocking an extension of unemployment benefits, transportation projects and Medicare reimbursement payments.
That is all true.
And in most of the media reports, that is where the story ends. In some cases, very few though, the story does go on to explain why Bunning is doing what he is doing.
But through omission, we are not getting….with all due respect to the late Paul Harvey…the rest of the story.
So, why is Bunning doing what he is doing? No, it is not because he is a curmudgeon. He might be, but that is not why.
Last month, Congress passed something called Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO). This was actually the law of the land from 1991 through 2002 and IT WAS NEVER ENFORCED.
Bunning wants to have something more than lip-service being paid to PAYGO.
As a taxpayer and parent of two who are being further burdened with our nation’s debts, I applaud Senator Jim Bunning for doing this.
Why now?
This is the FIRST bill to come up since PAYGO was passed last month where he could do something.
The problem is not Jim Bunning. The problem is the 99 others in the Senate who lack the BALLS to do the right thing.
Meanwhile, everyone is bashing Bunning for standing up. Saying that Jim Bunning hates the unemployed, etc. There is even a fringe group trying to get Jim Bunning expelled from the National Baseball Hall of Fame. [If you don't know, Bunning was a major league pitcher who threw a no-hitter in the AL and a perfect game, the only one at Shea Stadium, in the NL. He is one of five pitchers to throw no-hitters in each league.]
The media shows their bias. They are being spoon-fed this story by the Democrats who do not wish to have their hypocrisy further exposed. They do this due to both like-think and laziness.
The problem in this story is, at least, two-fold. It shows a willing manipulation of the media. And it shows that the one with integrity, at least in this case, is the bad guy when he should be the good guy.
Folks, if you are eating what the, as Bernie Goldberg has labeled them, Lame Stream Media is feeding you, STOP. Do not be among the ignorant!
Again, your ignorance can be corrected. Please put forth a LITTLE effort. You might have to shut off American IDULL for a night…or DVR it.
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Mar 2nd 2010 • 14:03
by Administrator
This is an interesting take on this story as well. Has some better sourced background in it as well.
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/02/senator-jim-bunning-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Ci-object%E2%80%9D/
Mar 2nd 2010 • 15:03
by Matt LaCasse
I don’t necessarily disagree with the Senator on the stand he is making. I believe his is correct, and has a very strong argument.
Here’s the thing. Pick a different bill to take this kind of a stand on. Pick a bill with a ton of spending in it that isn’t going to force workers to be furloughed, or be cut off from benefits keeping some people out of the soup kitchen line. Practically, Senator Bunning is dead on. Morally, I think he’s a bit off. Especially when he bitches about missing the Kentucky/South Carolina basketball game during his filibuster.
Mar 2nd 2010 • 15:03
by Administrator
It was the FIRST bill to come up. To pass on the FIRST and then act later would prove him to be as much of a hypocrite as those he is rallying against.
Not to sound like Elvis, but it was now or never.
Mar 2nd 2010 • 15:03
by Matt LaCasse
I’d see it as putting politics aside to do the right thing, and making your political stand, and make no mistake…that’s what this was, on another bill that doesn’t touch so many people as directly as this one.
Mar 2nd 2010 • 15:03
by Administrator
I would agree with you. But he had to make his move when he did with what he had to work with. As the saying goes, you play the cards you are dealt. Bunning was dealt a hand that leads to making him look bad because of the content of the bill, but in a way that should make his actions seem more noble.