Tuesday, March 5, 2013
We have reached a grim state of affairs. The press hasn’t challenged and won’t challenge the president.
By Jennifer Rubin
The White
House’s behavior throughout the sequester process has been baffling to some.
Until Friday’s news conference mainstream media never showed much skepticism
about the reams of scare stories being passed around. And if not for Bob
Woodward, not a single news outlet would have reported the origin of the
sequester. (Think about the level of negligence involved on that point alone.)
Whether on account of bias or ineptitude, media haven’t been very good at extracting the truth until quite
recently.
President Obama in the White House briefing
room (Larry Downing/Reuters)
The Post’s Glenn Kessler added the final Pinocchios on
Friday to the treasure trove the White House has racked up. He found that the
president’s claim that janitors and security guards at the Capitol would get a
pay cut to be patently false:
Obama’s
remarks continue the administration’s pattern of overstating the potential
impact of the sequester, which we have explored this week. But this error is
particularly bad — and nerve-wracking to the janitors and security guards who
were misled by the president’s comments.
We originally
thought this was maybe a Two Pinocchio rating, but in light of the AOC memo and
the confirmation that security guards will not face a pay cut, nothing in
Obama’s statement came close to being correct.
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