Do you hear a love song for Obama in AP 'guns and butter' article?

Just as ObamaCare costs have been underestimated, in the opinion of many conservatives, Medicare costs were grossly underestimated by big spender LBJ who promised Medicare would cost about $500 million. To date, there's a $74 TRILLION unfunded liability for Medicare. All caps intentional on that figure. (Photo: US Library of Congress, 1950-1960)The Associated Press featured a story titled ‘Romney on spending: Guns triumph over butter.’ In my opinion, the story amounts to a love song for President Barack Obama.

The AP said that if presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s budget plan comes to fruition, less funding would go to the “poor and disabled” and to services like “food inspection, border security and education.”

Obama, on the other hand, would make only small cuts to Medicare and Medicaid “while socking wealthier people with tax increases.”

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Big media and AP deserve a ‘POOlitzer’ for covering terrorism, Iraq

By Kay B. Day

Jacksonville's daily paper carries many wire service stories.I’ve begun to track Associated Press stories with interest, since learning of the wire service’s disclosure about outsourcing newsgathering to nonprofit organizations I consider part of the Leftosphere. We should create a committee to hand out ‘POOlitzers’ for some of these stories carried in thousands of daily newspapers whose editors’ dictionaries apparently omit the word ‘bias.’

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Heritage Foundation discloses AP outsourcing news to nonprofits

At times I’ve thought maybe I am too critical of the Associated Press—I disagree with the wire service writers’ slant very often. But a column at The Heritage Foundation shed light on what I often perceived as pro-Democrat bias. Ken McIntyre’s ‘Associated Press outsourcing to leftist nonprofits is a bad idea’ is a real eye-opener. You might print that and hand it out to friends and family.

I had no idea the AP was outsourcing news to freelancers and others associated with non-profit organizations most of us would view as statist in their thinking. Sure, most non-profits declare they’re nonpartisan. Both statists and conservatives do this and it’s their right to do so. It is definitely the right of the AP to lean in any political direction they choose—this is America. But as a reader, and as a hometown newspaper subscriber, I like to know the facts, especially if a column portrayed as news comes from an organization with a political preference.

McIntyre wrote, “Earlier this summer, the 163-year-old news cooperative announced it would distribute ‘watchdog and investigative journalism’ penned not by its own staff or that of member papers, but by four outside groups: the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, Calif.; New York-based ProPublica; and two D.C. outfits, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.”

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Obama 'Fact Check' shows Democrats spend like former GOP

Congressman John Murtha (D-Penn.) was sworn in by House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill in 1974. Murtha is one of many aging Democrats who’ve been in office for decades. Murtha also has a defense of earmarks on his website, with an argument clearly missing the boat that money spent is money spent no matter what financial pot it comes from. [Photo from US House website]The Associated Press, in my opinion, has schmoozed Democrats like most of pomp media, but finally the most influential wire service in the world has done a fact check on President Barack Obama’s budget deficit claims. The result: guilty as charged, both the president and the Democratic members of Congress. The president and Congress fall back on President George W. Bush and the Republicans every time the budget deficit is mentioned. They’re like a bunch of kids standing in a circle around a broken vase. When Mom says who did it, a chorus arises, “It wasn’t me!”

If you’re a regular visitor to The US Report, you’ve heard me say responsibility for ridiculous levels of spending and lack of oversight of our taxpayer money should be acknowledged by both political parties. It is obvious the GOP members of Congress—dubbed the “Party of No” by the opposition—have learned a valuable lesson about spending. The Dems may never learn. It’s in their political DNA. They are definitely the “Party of Yes” when it comes to irresponsible spending and oversight.

In a story published Thursday, Obama’s 101st day in office, the AP responded to Obama’s claim, “It wasn’t me.”

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