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‘Wilkow!:’ Media Bias and the Fiscal Cliff

Dec. 10, 2012 10:30pm Christopher Santarelli

The ‘Wilkow!‘ daily digit Monday is $4.8 billion.

That’s how much money the federal government is on track to borrow each day for FY 2013. For the first two months of FY 2013 – October and November – the government ran a deficit of $292 billion.

While media coverage leading up to the Fiscal Cliff has been persistant and ominous, Andrew Wilkow argues that the press has decided to only take one “solution” seriously: Republicans caving in on raising tax rates.

According to analysis from the Media Research Center’s Business and Media Institute, in the three weeks following President Obama’s re-election, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer devoted more than 10 minutes 18 seconds to talk of tax hikes and just 35 seconds to spending cuts (a 17-1 margin). NBC Nightly News discussed taxes more than twice as often as spending (4 minutes 23 seconds to 1 minute 47 seconds.), while CBS Evening News gave tax hikes only three more minutes of coverage (14 minutes 5 seconds to 10 minutes 12 seconds). However, more than a third of CBS’s spending cut coverage total comes from one story detailing the horrific downside of spending cuts.

MRC Vice President Dan Gainor joined ‘Wilkow!’ Monday to discuss this apparent bias leading up to the Fiscal Cliff:

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Paulhgreenbay
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:52am
Here’s the deal. I’m surprised many have not made the point of were this is going. The rich are the starting point. Are you listening? The rich are the starting point. Do I need to scream it? The left have no intention of cutting spending on their interests. They realize taxing the rich is just the tip of the iceberg. They just have to convince the sheeple they have gotten the rich to do their share before moving down lower tiers to tax. No it’s your turn (insert tax bracket here) to do your share. This is going to slide down to EVERYONE that pays taxes like it or not.

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- ranchoazulmt
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:46pm
  Well this certainly is a whiskey, tango, foxtrot over statement at the beginning! Taxing the rich is a start?
  What the sheeple do not realize is two things:
  1. Everytime the government touches money, some percentage will be lost because we have to pay government employees (too much I might add) to count, allocate, and distribute this money.
  2. Even if the government confiscated all the wealth from the rich, every single dime of money or investment income, this would only run the government for a measly couple of days!
  o wonder Mitch McConnel laughed when he heard Obumblers budget! $70 bilion doesn’t go as far as it used to!!!
  
  These useful idiots are clueless that ~20% of the people pay ~70% of the taxes! How much more unfair do they want to make it?
  
  Taxes should be something that everyone pays. Everyone has some skin in the game. You also cannot get back more than you aid in.
  
  In most countries, if you take something that does not belong to you, they call it stealing. In the USA, we call it wealth redistribution, but it still is generational theft!
  
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FightingBear
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:21am
I know this falls on deaf ears our representatives don’t give a damned about listening to their constituents…but …Republicans, do not give in. Take us over the cliff.

…and then when Obama attempts to pass new tax cuts for the middle class….do not pass it unless there is an across the board tax cut.

Make the middle class hurt and actually feel the pain of what Obama is about to do to them. This will all be on his head.

Yes, it will be difficult for us in the middle class…but it might be the only way that Dem voters will learn. If taxes are raised on the middle class for the next two years and the average family is paying $3500.00 more in taxes per year…there will be another Tea Party landslide in the house and Senate in 2014.

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- lonwarner2
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:38am
  I couldn’t have said it better! Thanks for the reality check!
  
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- Paulhgreenbay
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:56am
  I wish I had the faith in humanity that you have. The newer democratic voters seem to have Stockholm Syndrome.
  
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