June 18, 2009

As Deficits Surge, Media's Mask Slipping

Brent Bozell, Investor's Business Daily

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By L. BRENT BOZELL | Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:20 PM PT

A calm Sunday breakfast might have been ruined after a glance at the Washington Post's front page on June 14.

A chart below the fold explained that under Obama's federal spending proposals, the U.S. would be required to borrow $9 trillion during the next decade.

That's $9,000,000,000. The Post compared that, in today's dollars, to the financial burden of World War II: $3.6 trillion. That's not all of Obama's spending plan. That's only the part that's in the...

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