It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the majority of the media present at the second presidential debate at Hofstra University were rooting for President Obama to win the debate, but what is rather surprising is just how obvious the supposedly unbiased media was about their feelings regarding the two presidential candidates.
And it isn’t just their obvious cheerleading for Obama that’s disturbing; it’s their open mocking of wealth-creators.
A report from Washington Times reporter Stephan Dinen exposed that the room set aside for the media during the debate broke out in applause after President Obama mocked Mitt Romney for having a large pension.
Mitt Romney, in an attempt to point out the hypocrisy of the Obama campaign’s attacks on his blind trust fund investing in Chinese companies, asked the President, “Mr. President, have you looked at your pension?”
President Obama then responded “You know, I don’t look at my pension. It’s not as big as yours, so it, it doesn’t take as long.” Obama’s response was met with a wave of laughter and applause in the media room, proving once again that the media is anything but unbiased.
But perhaps the story beneath story isn’t that the media is biased in favor of the Democratic incumbent, a fact which a recent Gallup poll shows the American public is already aware of. The real story here is that the media seems to be harboring feelings of resentment against wealthy and successful Americans. Why else would a slew of media reporters applaud at Barack Obama’s attack on Mitt Romney’s success?
The media has embraced the Obama campaign’s decision to attack and tear down Mitt Romney for his wealth, which leads to an even more disturbing observation: Obama’s attack on Romney’s pension fund is probably the first time in the history of an American presidential race where one candidate made the political decision to openly mock his or her opponent purely based on his or her success in business (and then receive praise for doing so by the men and women in the media who set the tone for what is and is not an important campaign issue).
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan getting away with openly mocking Jimmy Carter for turning around his father’s farm and becoming wealthy? Can you imagine George Bush or Bob Dole ridiculing Bill Clinton’s story of coming from a lower-middle-class home to make it rich and successful in Arkansas’ political scene?
Since when do we Americans openly ridicule a class of people who have accomplished what all other Americans want to accomplish? The answer is: since Barack Obama was elected president.
Conservatives throw around the term “class warfare” to describe this Obama strategy, but the truth is that this political plan set in motion by Obama, and adopted whole-heartedly by his gushing media sycophants, displays the left-wing strategy to produce a cultural shift in America; one where the rich are forever demonized by liberal media and political elites, so confident in their hatred that they no longer even bother to conceal it in public.
