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via Obama Plans “New Season” Of More Direct Health Care Advocacy.
AP/Huffington Post   |  CHARLES BABINGTON
First Posted: 09- 2-09 08:53 AM   |   Updated: 09- 2-09 12:00 PM

Yet another AP article that is published in the so called “liberal media’s” leading on-line news source that slams President Obama. If Huffington Post wants to promote the progressive viewpoint, then they need to start editing these articles submitted by the

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Associated Press because this article that begins with David Axelrod speaking about Obama’s new strategy quickly turns into a right-wing bragging session. This snippet is where things start to get contentious:

Congress’ August recess was brutal for Obama and his allies, as lawmakers faced raucous crowds denouncing Democrats’ health proposals. When Congress comes back Tuesday, Democratic leaders hope to change the dynamic by holding quiet, closed-door sessions with nervous colleagues and arguing that far-reaching health care changes can be good politics as well as good policy.

There’s not one word about how these “raucous crowds” were planted inside the town halls, or about how the whole fake grassroots activism was organized and seeded by AHIP, the nation’s largest insurance lobbyist. These phony protests are nothing short of a well funded insurance corporate campaign to kill much needed healthcare legislation.

The Associated Press, with the help of Huffington Post has once again broad-brushed the Democratic Party. This time as somehow inferior or weak by having to calm “nervous” colleagues.  If we left things up to Huffington Post, the right-wing news monkeys could start posting their hate-filled vitriol as legitimate news. Who needs FOX when we have the Huffington Post?

This next snippet is the last two paragraphs of the article and they are what Huffington Post wants you to walk away with – the last word per se:

Republicans approach Labor Day feeling upbeat about the ground they gained during the August recess. Some are confident that no amount of closed-door hand-holding of nervous Democratic lawmakers will reverse the momentum.

“After a disastrous month at home, the fact that Democrats’ new health care strategy is to hide in Washington from the people who elected them to get health care passed shows what bad shape they’re in,” said Antonia Ferrier, spokeswoman for House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio.

It would do the Democratic Party much good if these headlining articles in the Huffington Post would end on a positive, progressive note instead of a blatant endorsement of the right-wing echo chamber’s talking points.

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