{"id":14626,"date":"2012-07-12T16:28:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14626"},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:28:17","slug":"why-the-internet-media-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14626","title":{"rendered":"Why The Internet Media Is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/seton-motley\/2012\/07\/10\/media-fail-government-motors-inflates-sales-selling-tothe-government\">Newsbusters<\/a>\u00a0posted a story about the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mainstream media\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mainstream_media\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">mainstream media<\/a>&#8216;s recent praise for the successful government bailout of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"General Motors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gm.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">General Motors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article cited some of the facts given in the mainstream reports and the things that were not mentioned:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<strong>Not mentioned was <\/strong><em><strong>the auto bailout will lose us <a id=\"Seton Motley | NewsBusters.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lessgovernment.org\/2012\/05\/22\/gms-pathetic-stock-price-means-a-30-billion-taxpayer-tab\/\" target=\"_blank\">about $30 billion<\/a><\/strong><\/em><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a id=\"Seton Motley | NewsBusters.org\" href=\"http:\/\/uselectionnews.org\/general-motors-nysegm-cheers-to-reports-us-sales-surges-16-hmc-kndi-adm-abv-gm\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>General Motors (NYSE:GM) Cheers to Reports US Sales Surges 16%<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><a id=\"Seton Motley | NewsBusters.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pt-news.org\/general-motors-nysegm-beats-analysts-sales-forecasts-gm-f-tm-hmc\/125223\/\" target=\"_blank\">General Motors (NYSE:GM) Beats Analysts Sales Forecasts<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><a id=\"Seton Motley | NewsBusters.org\" href=\"http:\/\/wallstcheatsheet.com\/stocks\/gm-sees-highest-sales-since-september-and-other-auto-stocks-making-headlines-now.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">GM Sees Highest Sales Since September<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Almost all of this $30 billion <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Taxpayer<\/a> loss was in fact a gi-normous payoff of the <a id=\"Seton Motley | NewsBusters.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/reports\/2012\/06\/auto-bailout-or-uaw-bailout-taxpayer-losses-came-from-subsidizing-union-compensation\" target=\"_blank\">Obama-Democrat stalwart United Autoworkers Union<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a id=\"Seton Motley | NewsBusters.org\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/stockstowatchtoday\/2012\/07\/03\/gm-races-higher-on-sales-report\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>GM Races Higher on Sales Report<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><a id=\"Seton Motley | NewsBusters.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/48056579\" target=\"_blank\">GM Sales Rise 16%<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><a id=\"Seton Motley | NewsBusters.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/news\/2012\/07\/03\/gm-june-us-sales-rose-16-all-brands-see-double-digit-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\">GM June US Sales Rose 16%<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/gm-boasts-strong-june-sales-but-is-that-the-whole-story\/\">The Blaze<\/a> is reporting today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>As it turns out, there\u2019s a <em>big <\/em>reason GM experienced an increase in sales last month: \u201cgovernment purchases of GM vehicles rose a whopping 79% in June,\u201d according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nlpc.org\/stories\/2012\/07\/05\/gm%E2%80%99s-government-sales-and-truck-inventory-rise\" target=\"_blank\">National Legal and Policy Center\u2019s<\/a> Mark Modica.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article at Newsbusters made a wonderful comparison:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>That\u2019s like you setting up a lemonade stand for your kids.\u00a0 You buy them the lemons, sugar, cups and pitchers &#8211; and then buy most of the lemonade yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Except you are <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/barack-obama-12782369\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a>.\u00a0 Your kids are the United Autoworkers Union.\u00a0 And the lemonade cost $50 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>At least you get to tax your neighbors for the $50 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you hear President Obama listing the saving of General Motors as one of his accomplishments, understand that you are still paying for that accomplishment, that senior citizens\u00a0and others who held preferred stock in the company got the shaft,\u00a0and that it really was not so much of an accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason I proudly drive my Ford Mustang!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; 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