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Submitted by: Lady E

Media and politicians think we’re not smart

From time to time, I cannot help but think that the media and the politicians (aren’t they really almost the same?) believe the American people are not very smart.

The most recent example is Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate. All weekend, the narrative was that the White House/Democrats were “breathing a sigh of relief.” If one believes the pundits and the media, the Democratic Party and the president’s advisers were hoping for a Ryan pick — that this played right into their hands.

Really? Does anyone honestly believe that the narrative would have been much different had another choice been made? It is fine and even sporting to act like the Ryan pick is just what the White House ordered. But please don’t insult the American voters’ intelligence by asserting that we really believe that.

JANE MOSTELLAR BRIGHAM

Mobile

Four questions the media won’t ask about Obama

Consider these four questions:

1) Where are the reports of the 20,000 Delphi workers getting screwed out of their pensions so President Obama could bail out the UAW pensioners at General Motors? (Delphi made auto parts for GM; non-UAW workers, of course.)

2) Where are the reports of Obama using our taxpayer money for this $50 billion GM bailout/union pension fund protection and screwing the GM bondholders?

We, the taxpayers, still “own” 36 percent of GM. When will we see that money? When GM stock rises over 250 percent — which will be the 12th of never.

3) Where are the media with the facts about the Obama ad with the steelworker whose wife died “because Romney/Bain closed his mill and he lost his health insurance”?

Romney left Bain at least five years before the mill was put into bankruptcy. The wife, who died six years later, was working when her husband was laid off and had her own health insurance. The steelworker himself said he did not blame Romney.

The White House and Stephanie Cutter — an Obama campaign operative — worked with the super PAC that made the ad. She knew three months in advance of the ad (as caught on a conference call) all about the steelworker, but says she knew nothing.

4) Where are the stories about one of Obama’s chief campaign money “bundlers” working, right now, for Bain?

These are just four examples of the media’s “we never run stories that will hurt Obama” rule.

RONALD JOHN LOFARO, Ph.D.

Orange Beach