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The media is doing its damnedest to make it look like both sides do this type of over the top vitriol. You know why they're doing this? Because they haven't been doing their jobs as journalists. They let politicians repeat BS and rarely, if ever, are called out on it. Just today, Rep Franks (R-AZ) was on Meet the Press with David Gregory. Did The Villager Gregory ask him about this comment from http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5350756-503544.html">September 29, 2009? That would be a NO. Here's what Franks said in 2009:

"Obama's first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers' money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries. Now, I got to tell you, if a president will do that, there's almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn't be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can't do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity."

Franks spokesman Bethany Haley said the congressman was referring to "unborn humanity," according to the Associated Press, and should have been more clear. She added that Franks was saying the president's abortion policies have "no place in any station of government," not that the president himself should have no place in the government.

She added to the AP that Franks "was just referring to the way President Obama has set himself up as the most pro-abortion president in America's history."

A journalist would ask the logical question to Rep Franks: "What do you do with an enemy of humanity? What is the logical consequence of saying someone is an enemy of humanity? Are you afraid of someone taking this literally and doing something?" Since Gregory didn't ask him about this, we won't know. But you have to wonder why he didn't know about it or he just chose not to ask him. A journalist would have researched the subject to be interviewed but today's journalists are too busy making nice with those in power. It's a cozy relationship that provides access to the politicians while putting the politicians on TV and not making too many waves. If they make waves, the access ends and they're not a member of the Inside the Beltway Village.

This is how they get away with the false equivalency bullshit. See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. If the media doesn't talk about it, then it didn't happen (for them). Lie by omission or play dumb. Thus the vitriol and lies gets to be repeated again and again without consequence.

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