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RICHARD BENEDETTO: CUE THE MEDIA WAR ON BUDGET CUTS. ?How so? Well, now that we know the targets o?

By Glenn Reynolds

RICHARD BENEDETTO: CUE THE MEDIA WAR ON BUDGET CUTS. “How so? Well, now that we know the targets of the cuts, the news media, suckers for a sob story, are already throbbing with carefully orchestrated, heart-rending tales about what devastation those cuts will cause.” Too bad they can’t interview some folks from 2020, after the federal budget deficit produces governmental and economic collapse.

UPDATE: Reader Dave Gamble notes an inconsistency in terms of how the politico/media establishment deals with the budget crisis — certain to come — versus global warming — a possibility: “Somehow protecting future generations from possibly having to endure the hardship of an extra tenth of a degree over the next century is a high moral calling, while fighting against the certainty of mortgaging their financial future with trillions in government debt is the work of the devil. Odd.” Not so odd when you realize that “climate change” measures increase the power of the political class, while budget cuts reduce it.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).