Deemed too damaging I assume? This has been a historic campaign and not because of the candidates, but because journalism died. How can CNN justify not playing the tape to the American people? They do not even have to write an opinion on the matter, let the people decide. This is just one tiny example in the liberal bias of CNN – and yet I have met so many people who defend this “news” station.
I have also seen a lot of comments from the Obamacolytes and the level of argument is bordering infantile.
Their main arguments:
1) This story has been out for a long time, it has been on the SF Chronicle website for months. 2) McCain also supports carbon caps.
Who the hell cares if the tape was on the SF Chronicle page? WHO GIVES A SHIT!? Did the national media know it? No? Then it was suppressed, because this is vital. The entire country knew Joe the Plumber did not pay his taxes, yet one day before the election no one knows of Obama’s plans to bankrupt an entire industry.
Of course the tape of someone prank calling Sarah Palin is on CNN’s main page. How utterly dispicable and blatant.
Secondly, McCain supports caps. Yes, he has said that. So what? When did he ever say he was planning to skyrocket electricity and bankrupt an entire freakin’ industry? There is a subtle difference.
Lastly, Obama wants to tax the industry and then use the money to reinvest. Do you understand what a socialist is? This is socialism. The government will now be in charge of our energy complex. Only liberal intellectuals can justify this action in the name of fighting global warming. I am so saddened that our elite intellectuals are so stupid.
Barack Obama openly admits that his plan is to bankrupt and destroy the coal industry according to the latest audio (video below). He is going to tax them into oblivion and thereby he will encourage the exploration and invention of alternative energies.
On it’s face, this sounds blatantly immature and socialistic. How can he, with such utter disregard for entire communities, SUGGEST THIS? I can only imagine that he is not particularly concerned about small time America and how his policies will affect some people. I think he relies on his strong metropolitian support to pull him through into the white house.
To me, this kind of penalization on an entire industry is utterly reckless. If I were to come up with an analogy, I would use a child.
Pretend for a moment that a parent wishes that the child help clean up the yard of leaves. The child comes up with an idea of collecting all the leaves and dumping them into the neighbor’s yard. In a fit of rage the parent beats the child and forces him to pick up a rake and do it the ‘hard way’. In a nutshell; the child is punished excessively and forced to clean up the yard in a more difficult manner and sadly with no additional incentive.
Of course in this particular case, the coal industry cannot with any rational ease “pick up a rake”, furthermore the consequence of being beat up here is the loss of jobs and the breakdown of entire communities and local economies, not to mention the entire infastructure designed to support a coal plant (miners, etc).
States like Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania and others will probably suffer under this type of envasive regulation/taxation.
Do not get me wrong, I believe that the government is responsible in nudging the industry along to promote and explore alternative energies, but not at the cost of an entire way of living.
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