{"id":13631,"date":"2009-08-14T18:11:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T23:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2009-08-14T18:11:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T23:11:04","slug":"wapo-ignores-real-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13631","title":{"rendered":"WaPo ignores real news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/14\/AR2009081402052.html?hpid=topnews&#038;sid=ST2009081402514\">Washington Post<\/a>&#8216;s Michael D. Shear and Anne E. Kornblut wrote this wonderful article about the joyful time President Obama had in Montana today. Apparently, the townhall meeting that they saw was all candy and rainbows for the President.<\/p>\n<p>The recounted all of the questions the President was asked. Well, they missed reporting on one &#8211; one that was pretty important. I watched the townhall meeting and wondered where was the guy who asked Obama how he planned to pay for all of this happy-joy healthcare stuff without raising our taxes. I had to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/08\/14\/obamas-health-care-quest-heads-west\/\">Fox News<\/a> to find a report about that;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama on Friday finally had to face a challenge at a town-hall-style meeting about the bottom line of his health care plan.<\/p>\n<p>A Montana man asserted that Obama would have to raise Americans&#8217; taxes to pay for his plan to overhaul the health care system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also remember the deer-in-the-headlights look Obama had when the man asked the question. In response, Obama made up some shit about cutting subsidies to the insurance industry to pay for our health care.<\/p>\n<p>Now granted, I&#8217;ve seen some news outlets ignore civility at the townhall meetings and only discuss the dramatic outbursts. I guess Washington Post decided that they&#8217;d just skip over Obama finally getting a tough question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post&#8216;s Michael D. Shear and Anne E. Kornblut wrote this wonderful article about the joyful &hellip; <a title=\"WaPo ignores real news\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13631\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WaPo ignores real news<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-debate","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}