A Thousand Suns

More Evolution
The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies........It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act......One of the officials said the latest policy change is just another step in the administration's evolving approach to immigration. (NYT, 6/15/2012)


We like to point out to Liberals from time to time that Obama has acted far more autocratically than their bete noire Bush/Cheney.


Note again that Obama did NOT flip-flop; he evolved.


The Spin Starts Here
Juan Williams, a Fox News analyst who generally expresses moderate political views... (NYT, 6/15/2012)


Obama to permit young migrants to remain in the U.S. (NYT Headline, 6/16/2012)


Two excellent examples of how the New York Times distorts the news. In the first we see Juan Williams identified as a moderate. RedStateVT watches Juan Williams a lot and thinks he is a very decent and thoughtful journalist. He is not a moderate, however. He is a Liberal Democrat. Run down any list of issues from health care to immigration to U.S. fiscal policy and you will not see much daylight between the views of Williams and the DNC. But to the New York Times, he is a moderate. The math works like this: if Williams is a moderate, than Romney is a right wing extremist and, hence, not someone who can be trusted. 


In the second example, the Times leaves out one important fact in describing Obama's new policy: the parents of these "young migrants" are in this country illegally. So an honest broker would have written the following headline: Obama to permit children of illegal aliens to remain in the U.S. 


Alas, the New York Times is not honest. 


Swamp People
And that leads to the falsehood. Despite his claim that “both parties have laid out their policies on the table,” Obama has made no serious proposal to fix the runaway entitlement programs that threaten to swamp the government’s finances. (Washington Post, 6/14/2012)


The Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer raises a point that RedStateVT has raised in the past: Obama (and the Dems) have never put forward a policy to explain how they will deal with the long term viability of entitlement spending. Wait.....what is that? Oh, it is not Krauthammer writing this, it is Liberal op-ed columnist Dana Milbank. 


Well good for him!