NYT Scrapes the Bottom to Argue ‘Democrats Pulled Too Far Left’

[KamaAina]

Not The Onion!!

http://fair.org/home/nyt-scrapes-the-bottom-to-argue-democrats-pulled-too-far-left/

“Have Democrats Pulled Too Far Left?” asks a New York Times op-ed (5/27/15). Because this question is always answered affirmatively by corporate media, you don’t even have to note that the author, Peter Wehner, “served in the last three Republican administrations” to know that the answer is going to be yes.

Despite the predictable thesis, however, the column still manages to surprise with its degree of intellectual dishonesty. Wehner’s thesis is that Barack Obama has “moved to the left” compared to “centrist New Democrat” Bill Clinton. But whenever Wehner makes a claim that can be checked—that isn’t simply empty rhetoric, like his assertion that Obama “has often acted as if American strength is a problem”—again and again it turns out to involve some numbers game....

You’d never know from that that the federal prison population is 48 percent bigger under the “left” Obama than it was when centrist Clinton left office.

“Mr. Clinton lowered the capital-gains tax rate; Mr. Obama has proposed raising it,” Wehner says. Clinton lowered the rate capital gains were taxed at to 20 percent; under Obama it went up—to 20 percent.

[calimary]

1. "Have Democrats Pulled Too Far Left?"Answer? NO! Better yet - HELL NO!!!

NOT FAR LEFT ENOUGH!!!! Backed by LOTS of publicity that explains and enlarges upon and educates as to WHY - and how it benefits everyone, even the "commie-phobes".