Coverage of the Republican effort to undo Obamacare via government shutdown/default has been characterised by means of makes an attempt to assign responsibility for the dual crises to either side, and to draw the President into a hostage negotiation a few settled subject. In a speech Thursday morning, President Obama called out the mainstream media narrative that “each side” are accountable, and broke it down like a Current TV set.

The President gave a speech, this morning, at the M. Luis Building Firm in Rockville Maryland, through which he pressured Republicans in Congress to end the federal government shutdown, but additionally challenged the narrative that “each side” are one way or the other in charge for the shutdown, and the looming debt ceiling obstacle.

“Sometimes when this gets stated on,” the President said, “all and sundry roughly thinks, ‘either side are squabbling, Democrats and Republicans, they are at all times arguing. Neither side’s behaving correctly.’”

“I would like everyone to keep in mind what happened right here,” he endured. “The Republicans handed a brief budget for 2 months, at a funding degree we as Democrats suppose is way too low because we aren’t providing help for extra small companies, doing more for early childhood schooling, doing more to rebuild our infrastructure, but we stated whereas we are nonetheless attempting to figure out this funds, we are ready to head ahead and take the Republican price range levels that they proposed.”

“So the Senate passed that without a strings hooked up,” President Obama explained. “No longer as a result of it had the whole thing the Democrats needed. In truth, it had little or no that the Democrats needed, however we stated, let’s go in advance and make it possible for people aren’t hurt whereas negotiations are nonetheless taking place.”

He also explained that a easy CR, with no extra demands, is being denied a vote by means of Speaker John Boehner, and that it might seemingly go if a vote have been allowed. “Put it on the floor and let every particular person member of Congress make up their very own minds,” Obama declared. “They may be able to exhibit the American folks, are you for a shutdown or not? In case you’re not for a shutdown, vote for the invoice or don’t vote for the bill. We don’t have to curl any one’s fingers.”

 

Whether or not you agree that the shutdown technique is valid or not, as the President says, there is no mistaking that it is the Republicans’ technique by myself, but the mainstream media continues to try and insist that their hostage technique is President Obama’s fault, too, and that he will have to negotiate with them.

There’s an outdated funny story that perfectly illustrates the media’s protection of this, and just about every other political story. A man walks as much as a beautiful woman on the road and says “Howdy, baby, you wanna f*ck?”

She slaps him.

“Then I suppose a blowjob is out of the question?” the man says.

If the media have been to quilt this event, they’d record that “some say the man’s increase was once inappropriate and vulgar,” however would also wonder “why received’t this woman at least sit down down and negotiate with the other facet?”

When the man’s additional deals of “a at hand” and “just the tip, just to look how it feels” had been met with an identical responses, the media would definitely specific a hope that the woman would “open the fist a bit of bit” and “reach out to the opposite side,” because indubitably she bears some share of the blame, doesn’t she? Shouldn’t she as a minimum provide the man something to permit him to avoid wasting face?

The variation here is that Republicans are screwing the whole united states of america, including themselves, in their fruitless strive at a conquest they have got already been irrevocably denied. No method no, and in the event that they don’t understand that, the media should.