Do yourself a favor, read this
column by Canadian Andrew Smith, who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and writes for
The Chronicle Herald of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He lists twelve Obama Administration screw-ups that the adulatory mainstream media of both countries have found too distasteful to much mention. Here is a sample:
•Obama abandoned his campaign promise to reform earmarks, signing the omnibus bill which contained 8,816 of them.
I haven't checked out all of his allegations, but they make interesting reading. As regular readers of COTTonLINE know, I do agree with his ultimate conclusion:
There’s a lesson there, though Fox News will be just as well pleased if the impeccably "mainstream" news business remains clueless about it. (snip) And they wonder why the news business has come on hard times.
Hat tip to
Lucianne.com for the citation.
