Lesson In Media Bias

Tell me, class, what does the left and the press (yes, they're the same) say when conservatives or the GOP say they want to slow the rate of growth of a program? Say the budget for NIH is set to go up by 8% a years and they propose increasing their budget by 5% a year, instead.

The left says that they are proposing "cuts" and want to "slash" the budget of the NIH. Right? You know this is true. Even though they are increasing their budget, it is a CUT.

So, then, what are we to make of the 'he's so wise!' coverage of Obama's useless plan to "freeze spending" on a small part of the federal budget? Now please keep in mind that, otherwise, the spending on these items would likely rise - instead he is calling for budgets that would otherwise rise to be stilled at their current level.

They have proposed slashing spending by at least $100 billion a year, and Obama responded Tuesday night by offering unspecified savings through the closing of some tax loopholes, modest budget cuts and a five-year freeze in discretionary spending that will save $40 billion a year.

Yup - when a Democrat calls for budgets to have their rate of increase slowed (all the way to 0% actually), he is praised for wisely "saving $40 billion a year" - not slashing or cutting or depriving of oxygen or throttling in the cradle any budgets...he's just "saving money".

That, my good friends, is media bias.