Romney’s media lap dogs

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/21/8932192-romney-assails-obama-for-super-committees-failure

In this story Republican presidential primary candidate Mitt Romney is repeatedly quoted blaming the Super Committee’s failure to reach agreement on a lack of leadership by President Obama.  The bipartisan Super Committee was created to make the budget cuts that would significantly reduce the national debt.  The Committee was meant to reach an agreement on exactly what would get cut. The Super Committee’s failure would trigger automatic cuts to military and domestic spending that would begin with the new year. Republicans do not want any cuts in military spending, putting more pressure on those in the Super Committee to come to an agreement with the Democrats
of the committee.  Mr. Romney claimed the President should have done more to help the Super Committee succeed.  This is a good example of the media acting as a lapdog.  This article made no mention of the fact that the President presented a plan to the Super Committee that would reach the committee’s $1.3 million in required cuts that would keep the automatic cuts from happening.  Nor did this article point out that the President was asked to “stay away” from Super Committee negotiations by committee members of both parties.  Democrats did not want Republicans rejecting
a potential agreement simply because the President was for it; something that seems to have become business as usual for the President’s opposition.  Republican’s did not want him around because they didn’t want to be seen as supporting any of the President’s ideas.  Romney would surely know these things if I do,
and the press is also aware and failed to call Romney out; they just let him say what he said without ever mentioning that the President was asked to stay away from the committee.  The media reported what Romney said as fact and what’s worse they knew it to be false.