CBS Skips How Own Poll Finds Many More Think Spending Cuts Too Small Over Too Big

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Friday August 05, 2011 @ 11:40 AM ET

1. CBS Skips How Own Poll Finds Many More Think Spending Cuts Too Small Over Too Big
Running through the findings of a new CBS News/New York Times poll, on Thursday’s CBS Evening News Chip Reip highlighted how, after weeks of media hostility the Tea Party has lost popularity, as he also located people to illustrate how more wanted, and still want, taxes raised over spending cuts alone. Reid ignored, however, how far more – Republicans, independents, and even Democrats – believe the spending cuts “didn’t go far enough” over “went too far.” Overall, 44 percent answered “not far enough” compared to only 15 percent for “too far,” with 29 percent answering “about right.” Amongst Republicans, the split was 62 percent unsatisfied with the level of cuts to just 4 percent who said they went too far; for independents 3.5 times as many thought the cuts fell short as were big enough, at 46 to 13 percent; and even Democrats answered not far enough over too far by 28 percent to 26 percent.

2. New York Times Columnists Ridicule Tea Party: 'Zombies' Wearing 'Suicide Vests'
So much for civility. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Wednesday continued to ramp up the newspaper's vitriolic attacks against Tea Party conservatives, bizarrely describing them as "cannibals" "zombies" and "vampires." Savaging the Tea Party has been a theme of Times columnists lately. On Tuesday, columnist Joe Nocera attacked Tea Party Republicans as "terrorists" who have "waged jihad on the American people" while wearing "suicide vests."

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3. ABC's Jon Karl Blames House GOP for FAA Shutdown, Skips Democratic Obstruction
Good Morning America's Jon Karl on Thursday placed the blame for a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration on House Republicans, ignoring the role Senate Democrats have played. 4000 thousand FAA workers have been furloughed, construction projects have been stopped, but Karl complained, "What's the hold up? Republicans are insisting on cuts to a program that subsidizes flights to small rural airports."

4. Liberal Media Still Refuse to Tie Obama to 'Shocking' Food Stamp Crisis
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announced on Wednesday's show that "the number of Americans relying on food stamps has hit another all-time record" with "Nearly 46 million of your fellow citizens are receiving food stamp assistance." Yet curiously he did not tie Barack Obama's fiscal policies to this economic tragedy, something the liberal media was prone to do when it came to blaming Ronald Reagan in the '80s for homelessness or George W. Bush for high gas prices. In fact, in the face of this growing plight for an increasing number of Americans no anchor or reporter at the Big Three networks (NBC, CBS and ABC) has come even close to blaming the Obama administration in their food stamp stories.

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