For The Left The Narrative Drives The News ... And Purposely(!) Distorts The Truth

A Donna Brazile column ("New bill could rebuild America") ran in our local paper on July 16, 2010. The stupidity and ignorance of her second sentence was stunning! Most amazing, her totally made-up 'fact' was the premise of her entire column. It stopped me cold from reading the rest of her comments.

Here is what she said: "It was Bush, joined by a Republican Congress, who in 2008 jointly threw a taxpayer's lifeline to Big Bankers, Wall Street Moguls and auto giants GM and Chrysler".

Her point and lead-in for the rest of what she said is that Republicans (congressmen and citizens) are therefore hypocritical in opposing and lacking in authority to oppose bailouts and huge debts from Obama and our current Democratic congress. After all, as she says, the Republican Congress did the same thing! HUH? I have news for Ms. Brazile.
1. Republicans were NO LONGER IN CHARGE OF CONGRESS after the 2006 elections. She doesn't know who won the 2006 elections? Good Grief!
2. The REAL fact is, Republicans voted AGAINST both the first and the final (senate) versions of that 2008 bailout bill by a pretty big percentage. It was Democrats (hello, Ms. Brazile, are you listening?) who passed that legislation. (Yes, it's accurate to say that Bush owned it as president for signing it but that's not who's opposing the Dems bills now so a claim of hypocrisy against him is irrelevant to the argument she's trying to make.)

So, what I presume was the premise for her entire column is factually incorrect. What does it say about her integrity, much less her credibility journalistically speaking when she can't get basic facts correct?

Her biography at the bottom of the column says she is "a political commentator on CNN, ABC and NPR; contributing columnist to Roll Call". I can't make up my mind whether that says more about Ms. Brazile or those 'news' organizations! These people ALL let The Left's politically correct narratives drive what they try to pass off to the koolaid-drinking public as news. They make up 'facts' to fit the narrative and have the nerve to call these fictions 'news' or 'reporting'. It's not stranger than fiction; it IS fiction.