Or, will they return to their he said, she said approach of not holding Republicans accountable when they just spout of lies and talking points like Vierra sitting like deer caught in headlights while Trump claims that President Obama was born in Kenya?
Sadly, the modern idea of what is objective journalism, is to simply provide a forum where Republicans can spout outrageous lies (See Trump), then allow Democrats to rebut, then call the Democrats defensive for responding to the lies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/boehners-unreality-check-on-the-deficit/2011/05/10/AFUC6PjG_story.html?hpid=z4
The news out of House Speaker John Boehner’s speech to the New York Economic Club was his demand for “cuts of trillions, not just billions” before the debt ceiling can be raised. Not just broad deficit-reduction targets, the Ohio Republican insisted, but “actual cuts and program reforms.”
That’s alarming enough. It is all but impossible to get this done in the available time. It certainly can’t be accomplished on Boehner’s unbending, no-new-taxes terms. And if the speaker truly believes that it would be “more irresponsible” to raise the debt ceiling without instituting deficit-reduction measures than not to raise it at all, we’re in a heap of trouble.
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Even more alarming, because it has consequences beyond the debt-ceiling debate, is the incoherent, impervious-to-facts economic philosophy undergirding Boehner’s remarks.
Reporters naturally tend to ignore this boilerplate. Journalistically, that makes sense. Boehner’s economic comments were nothing particularly new. Indeed, they reflect what has become the mainstream thinking of the Republican Party. But that’s exactly the point. We become so inured to hearing this thinking that we neglect to point out how wrong it is.