Dear corporate media, your class bias is showing

~ susie

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I can’t tell you how many Democrats tried to explain to me that the Dems had no other choice but to vote for this. I dunno, evil is evil:

Following an initial Senate vote Monday night and a House vote last week, today the Senate is expected to pass a farm bill that cuts food stamps by over $8 billion in the next decade. The White House has signaled that President Obama will sign the bill, ending a two-year fight in which key Democrats and Republican disagreed over how much — but not whether – to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

“Our political system is basically evil versus spineless now,” former Clinton USDA official Joel Berg told Salon following the House’s vote. Berg, the executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger and author of “All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?,” blasted White House “disingenuousness,” Republican “race-baiting,” media “class bias,” and progressive “weakness” for the ultimate outcome. “There is no mechanism now,” he argued, “to hold people accountable for shafting poor people.” A condensed version of our conversation follows.

The Associated Press described the ultimate deal as having “a mostly symbolic cut in food stamps.” Is that accurate?

It’s not accurate, and shows you in a few words virtually everything wrong with the American media today. It shows you class bias, reporters listing as a fact something that’s an opinion, it shows you lack of empathy.

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2 thoughts on “Dear corporate media, your class bias is showing”

  1. I have very much enjoyed arguing with Allyson Schwartz’s campaign manager, who is insisting that she HAD to do this to get her food desert legislation included in the bill.

    Of course, Bob Casey got HIS pet legislation in the bill and still voted no. So she DIDN’T have to do that.

  2. Bipartisanship is what the passage of this bill is called. Everybody gets something and nobody gets everything. In this case the poor get to go hungry and giant farm corporations get rich off our tax dollars. The Republicans believe that Socialism for the corporations (our tax dollars) is a wonderful thing, but Socialism for the 99%? Forgetaboutit.

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