BUSTED: ABC Props Up Disguised Dem Activist as Victim of GOP Policy
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 2, 2010, 11:23 PM
ABC Gets Caught With Their Pants Down–
This was just blatantly dishonest.
ABC propped up a far left liberal activist as a poor innocent unemployed woman who was devastated by greedy Republicans who want to take away her unemployment benefits.
NewsBusters reported:
From NewsBusters:
Good Morning America’s Claire Shipman on Thursday tried to disguise a Democratic activist as just a jobless American who would be hurt by Republican failure to extend unemployment benefits. Shipman sympathetically recounted that Edrie Irvine, who she didn’t explain spoke at a Nancy Pelosi press conference on Wednesday, “never thought her very livelihood would depend on a political debate in Congress.”
A graphic reading “unemployed” appeared onscreen as Irvine complained, “They are talking about tax cuts for the rich and are holding people like me hostage.” Who is Ms. Irvine? According to her bio on the leftist Democracy For America web page, she’s a “tree-hugging, bleeding-heart, ACLU-card-carrying progressive liberal and damn proud of it!”
ABC also forgot to mention that Ms Irvine recently spoke at a far left One Nation Rally:
ABC even showed a few seconds of Pelosi’s Wednesday unemployment rally but forgot to mention that Edrie Irvine spoke there.
And they wonder why Americans don’t trust the media anymore?
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PaleRyder commented:
When is enough,enough??Why are the lying pukes of the hate-America first media allowed to continue to lie and deceive the nation in the name of a free press?? That is not the right they have. These networks need to be removed,their advertisers,every single one,threatened with bankruptcy. They have proven that a free and honorable America is history to them and they are willing to lie about anything and everything to help the praise alluh democrat party destroy this nation. They are a cancerous tumor to our society that is in dire need of immediate removal
Jet Jaguar commented:
ABC? Who is that? …oh yes: the old-timey TV network.
Rancid commented:
One of the greatest problems with the MSM is that they are not accountable to ANYONE. They can do or say whatsoever they please and proclaim themselves correct – whose to say differently? Should anyone speak out, that’s easy enough to deal with – just ignore those whom oppose.
It seems the only alternative are echo chambers such as Gateway Pundit. Each political declension has it’s own stylized echo chamber – while these thieves keep spouting their deceptions.
Multitude commented:
In time, the illusion of the progressive “common man” perspective will collapse and the multitude will recognize it for the public relations myth that it is. Just as American exceptionalism led to horrific crimes against humanity in Vietnam, it is on proud display through the neo-fascists we know as progressives and neo-liberals.
No story produced by the media is neutral; this delusion resonates of an American jeramiad, the small town reporter eagerly uncovering an objective truth through his crafty interviews and determined reporter work ethic, a construct facing an American journalistic frontier easily explained through simplistic narratives of redistributionist simplicity.
Neo commented:
Simon commented:
They may occupy us, but we don’t have to cooperate.
VeryConcerned commented:
Does any of this actually surprise anyone? The only surprise that is news worthy would be where the new york slimes, washington compost, abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, msnbc, cnbc, hln and politico would report a fair and honest story about the never ending attack of liberty from the loser obama to the illegals invading the country but it won’t happen so the rest is just propaganda and white house talking points. Drudge, conservative talk radio, Fox News and conservative blogs are the only means for common sense fair news that exposes both sides and points on the rights and wrongs with the left being less of the victim and more of the culprit like in real life. To hell with liberals and their radical agenda to destroy freedom and liberty, to hell with all of them, top to bottom!
Linda Rafkin commented:
It is a shame that these people are not ashamed or afraid to present themselves as victims. They have no morals, less character and are tearing the very fabric of America with their lies and attempts to transform America into a government controlled country. I don’t believe that these people know what they are doing. They are being used by the progressive media and the left agenda. They are given the hope that these lies they are telling is helping Obama lead their country to Liberty. But, they have no moral fiber. They know they are lying and they don’t care. ” The ends justify their means.” This is the country that Obama wants to give to our children. This type government leads to genicide. When the people revolt when they find out the truth, Obama’s henchmen will “eliminate the dissenters.” This is much more than disagreeing.
Txn4Evr commented:
Really, does anybody watch the networks anymore. As irrelevant as buggy whips.
tarpon commented:
This is a twofer, the progressives and the media, all going into the same trash pile.
BigAlSouth commented:
Honestly. Who could be proud of a country that denies slackers the right to sit on their azz collecting unemployment for 2-3 years?
Honestly. /s
Militant Conservative commented:
Love it. Been watching the MSM get away with this crap for decades.
The new media and cell phone cameras make US the journalists of truth.
Can’t get away with this anymore, but the MSM is sooooo entrenched in stupid they cannot see the reality of the real world and where it has gone without them. The new media is US, They are the dead sea scrolls without the wisdom. powder is dry.
donh commented:
Hey Erdie….Get a REAL Job !
BurmaShave commented:
Actually I was not exposed to this lying and deceptive propaganda — as a point of principle I NEVER WATCH ABC or its cousins NBC, CBS, CNN, or PBS (except sometimes Masterpiece Theater, which I pay for involuntarily).
Everybody simply should adopt a no-tolerance policy towards the antics of these networks so that they stop the BS or go away entirely.
bigL commented:
In calif I learned the unemp check runs $1800 per Month. the local radio Hosts ,john and Ken, did a segment w callers. One guy called and said that when he had 10 days left to the Unemployment
checks that he just went out and got a job. Otherwise he was having a good time.
Separaely there are lots of stories that 99 weekers are working under thetable. Kind of like creating Ameican illegal Aliens!
Atlanta Media Guy commented:
ABC News is owned by The Walt Disney Company. It’s time we contact ABC affiliates around the country and their advertisers that we do not want to put up with their propaganda feeding antics. ESPN is owned by Disney, how would they feel if we begin to tell ESPN sponsors that we will not stand for Disney’s propping up of liberal activists like this. The GOP need to act like Media Matters and begin to let these people know that we will not support their networks or theme parks if this kind of sensationalism of lies and distortions on their news network.
Folks, if we don’t start hitting these idiots in their pocket books nothing is going to change. The next two years will be hard since Obots will be in campaign mode and will do whatever they need to get this capitalist hating moron reelected.
Enough! Contact ABC and Disney today!
TxBitty commented:
Edrie Irvine in Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Past:Field & Turnout Assistant at One Nation Working Together Coalition, Executive Assistant and Legal Secretary at Legal & Accounting Firms, …Education:University of Michigan, Ford Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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vsatt commented:
“never thought her very livelihood would depend on a political debate in Congress.”
Her livelihood? So are they admitting that paid unemployment is a career choice for some people?
aprilnovember811 commented:
“They are talking about tax cuts for the rich and are holding people like me hostage.”
Oh the irony. This is how we feel about oil drilling lady. As Mark Levin says, “GREEN IS THE NEW RED.” TELL OBAMA WHEN HE STOPS ACTING OUTSIDE ANY PRESIDENTIAL POWERS AND STOPS ATTACKING DRILLING, MAYBE WE WILL GIVE YOU MORE, “LIVELIHOOD.” Off the backs of hard working people that is.
Joanne commented:
People will stay on unemployment and not look for a job if what they receive in unemployment payments is greater or close to what they could earn in a job. If the unemployment benefits are extended, those same people will remain unemployed and refrain from looking from work. What the Democrats are doing is adding people who used to work to their already large social assistance group. The Democrats want people to be used to being dependant on the government.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
Unemployment isn’t a lifestyle, lady. The Republican party, if it truly has assumed the Conservative mantle should propose the following; That anyone with a physical, or intellectual disability should receive benefits without question. All able-bodied who want a government check should report every morning to a designated worksite and work a full day in exchange for a check. THAT’s a Conservative principle. Can’t find a job? Want a benefit check? OK, report by 8:30 and work till 5. I’d even spot them on-site childcare. Yes, it would be a net tax expenditure, but it would also provide a much-needed lesson in the linkage between work and pay that a great many people in this Nation desperately need to be taught!