Media Bias

[Brian Peacock]

Whatever were they pushing?

[Cunt]

Whatever were they pushing?

Well one of the funny ones, if a bit 'meta' for my tastes, was using the acronym to make people think it was foreign aid. Calling it United States Agency for International Development was surely just a coincidence lol

[JimC]

...to make people think it was foreign aid...

Show your evidence that it was somehow not about foreign aid.

[Cunt]

...to make people think it was foreign aid...

Show your evidence that it was somehow not about foreign aid.

Oh, sorry, someone got to it

[JimC]

I meant real evidence, not crap from TIRBY...

[Cunt]

How about doge?
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1879421927733002562

USAID spends $40B+ of taxpayer dollars to fund foreign aid:
- $45mm to DEI scholarships in Burma
- $520mm for consultant-driven ESG investments in Africa
- $1.2bn in awards to undisclosed recipients

Source:
https://usaspending.gov

I'm sure that billion or so to undisclosed recipients counts as 'foreign aid', but how could anyone think DEI scholarships count? I mean, unless the person was of a certain political alignment...

[Cunt]

another doge post...
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1871397453720695148

How the U.S. Government Spent your Tax Dollars in 2024:

-State Department spent $2.1 million on border security—for Paraguay.
-USAID is spending $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
-The National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Bearded Ladies Cabaret a
$10,000 grant to support a cabaret show on ice skates focused on climate change

Source:
https://hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/upl ... T-2024.pdf

You know this stuff is public, right? I mean, this source is clearly 'right-wing', but I'm sure the left would find a similar expanse of bureaucratic bullshit if they look a bit.

They ARE looking, aren't they?

[JimC]

Anything from DOGE is self-serving crap from a corrupt billionaire...

[Joe]

Anything from DOGE is self-serving crap from a corrupt billionaire...

Yeahbut, I find the data itself useful in that it illustrates what a scam DOGE is running, How many expenditures in the millions will they need to drop to eliminate a $1.1 trillion deficit? Even the salaries they eliminate by laying off people won't cover the reduction from not extending the Trump tax cuts.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Tax cuts for large corporations and wealthy individuals are very important if they're going to Make America Great Again though. If just about everybody else has to suffer, so be it.

[Joe]

Right, because they'll use that money to create jobs and stuff, like Trump and Musk are doing.

[Cunt]

So the media bias aligns perfectly with the left again. Weird, I would have thought that even the left would doubt that 'border protection in Paruguay' was 'aid'. I thought the left didn't like borders at all...

[Brian Peacock]

'the left' lol

[Cunt]

'the left' lol

Yes, here is a great example.
Biden, in the US, was representing 'the left'.

The Biden laptop scandal was covered by a few news orgs, but supressed by many social media companies, and most news rooms.

You can just count any media who worked for Biden during that time, as 'the left'. Whatever their politics, they were working (hard!) for the left.

[Cunt]

More ridiculous left-wing bias, which will be firmly dismissed by the left, as unbiased lol

https://x.com/RepTimmons/status/1904927825682907428

NPR’s Katherine Maher admits it’s ‘concerning’ that 100% of her editorial board—87 members—are registered Democrats, with zero Republicans.

NPR’s blatant partisan imbalance is unacceptable—taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for a one-sided echo chamber.

Of course NPR has been biased for a long time, but to see who else is biased, just look at who cannot see (or admit) it