From the Desk of:
David Martin, Executive Vice President
Media Research Center
July 26, 2011
Conservatives,
As debt talks have heated up this summer, the media have been pushing liberal talking points, trashing conservatives and praising our hapless president nonstop. But for all of their lies, none has been more obvious, inflammatory and easily disproven than their daily declaration — across cable, broadcast networks and newspapers throughout the country — that the U.S. will default if a deal is not reached by August 2nd. This statement is false, they know it’s false, and they repeat it again and again to try to force conservatives to take a bad deal on raising the debt ceiling.
It’s one thing for partisan politicians to use scare tactics to get an advantage in negotiations. It’s a far different thing for a supposedly impartial media to repeat their lies!
