After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there's no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.
A few of the purveyors of this bigoted nonsense might actually believe it. Most of them, however, are merely seeking political gain by inviting white voters to question the motives and good faith of the nation's first African American president. This is really about tearing Barack Obama down. (Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, 7/22/10)
So let’s review. Someone gives Andrew Breitbart an edited video, the Obama White House fires Sherrod, the NAACP denounces her and this is all the fault of the “cynical right-wing propaganda machine.” Does Robinson want to deflect attention away from the Journolist scandal?
Trillion Here, Trillion There
The federal budget deficit, which hit a record $1.4 trillion last year, will exceed that figure in 2010 and 2011, according to a White House forecast released Friday. The $1.47 trillion budget gap predicted for 2010 represents a slight improvement over the administration's February forecast, but the outlook for 2011 has darkened considerably, primarily due to a drop in expected tax receipts. (Washington Post, 7/23/10)
The White House added: “obviously we need to increase taxes to make up for the drop in expected tax receipts and, besides, this whole problem is due to George Bush.”
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