David Fredosso – Spin Masters: How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Reelect Barack Obama (Regnery Books)

David Fredosso’s new book Spin Masters: How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Reelect Barack Obama is a chapter and verse indictment of the mainstream media and their complicity in not only ignoring the pitiful results of Obama’s first term, but their creation of news and storylines that didn’t exist.

Fredosso recounts one of the most glaring examples of news creation when Democrat operative George Stephanopolis, who collects a paycheck from ABC Propaganda (formerly ABC News) and his promulgation of the “war on women” and badgering of Mitt Romney about his “plan” to ban birth control. Anyone who was truly paying attention and had an IQ above room temperature knew that there was no such “plan” or even thought process, even from the most pro-life Republican candidate Rick Santorum.

Fredosso makes the case that the media went far beyond debate moderator Candy Crowley of CNN’s inserting herself into the debate between Romney and Obama by ignoring countless high profile issues that were part and parcel of Obama’s first term including; terrible economic numbers, wasteful government spending that contributed to a huge increase in the national debt, serious abuses of power like the so-called recess appointments, despite  the fact Senate was still in session and the utter mishandling of the Benghazi attack.

Anyone in their right mind who gave serious consideration to Obama’s first term has to conclude that he ranks among the worst Presidents in U.S. history, who has done serious if not irreparable harm to the country, yet in the media vacuum and echo chamber, he still managed to get re-elected.

Fredosso’s detailing of the media’s malpractice should be a clear signal to the inept Republican party and to those who care about the future of this country, that if we are ever going to pull out of the tailspin created by two terms of Obama, then they will have to make significant progress on improving their methods of communication and making an impact on the American public. If that does not come to pass then the stupid masses will continue to be lead around by the nose by the media and continue to reelect the worst possible candidates.

The Mainstream Media Wouldn’t Know a Gaffe if it Bit Them on the Butt

If you are among the deluded who still believe what the mainstream media serves up, then Republican presumptive Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney’s oversees jaunt was a gaffe-fiesta and the candidate is a bungler who can’t seem to manage to avoid stepping on his own manhood.

But it’s my contention that the mainstream media wouldn’t recognize an actual gaffe if it walked up a bit it on their collective ass!

Romney has been excoriated by the Palestinian toady’s in the press for his comment about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. This despite the fact in 1995 the 104^th  U.S. Congress passed into law the Jerusalem Embassy Act (Senate 95-3 and House 374-37) which initiated the funding and process of moving the U.S. Embassy to the capital of Israel, Jerusalem.

Despite the fact that Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have ignored the law, it still exists! The most amazing thing is that the press ignores the FACT that then candidate Obama, while speaking to the pro-Israel group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) said basically the same thing:

"[A]ny agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized, and defensible borders. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."

Olympics Gaffe

The media also took Romney to task over his comments in London about the preparedness of the Olympic committee for the then forthcoming  Summer games. Oddly enough, a week prior to Romney’s comments the British press was delivering front page stories saying exactly the same thing!

The Brit press reported that nearly half of those polled believed that the security of the games was a still unanswered question! The mainstream media is so in the tank for the Obama reelection campaign, desperately seeking anything to prop this clown up.

Equally the handful of conservative media outlets are misguided when they continue to label Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment as a gaffe. That was no gaffe, that was how this guy actually feels about business and business owners.

The Community Organizer in Chief thinks that business owners didn’t really work hard to build their success, they were simply the winners of a government infrastructure lottery. This thought process is so specious and the media’s attempt to spin this as Obama referring to roads and bridges, it’s laughable! If success was dependent upon roads and bridges, then way do businesses fail? Unfortunately more often than not the culprit is faulty business plans or government regulatory over-reach that dooms business…not a pothole in the road!