Malreporting at the Huntsville Times
Way back in November of 2008, The Huntsville Times ran an article by goodthinker Shelby Spires, ‘Both candidates support missile defense’, which contained this rebuttal to concerns that Obama would cut missile defense:
Continued support for missile defense programs seems a lock for either a John McCain or Barack Obama White House given their campaign statements…
This bit of propagandawise deserves to be unstuffed from the memory hole, in light of Sunday’s headline ‘Bill will send billions here’, again written by versificator Spires.
The Times headline obscures this 20% cut to one of Huntsville’s top employers:
Spending for the Missile Defense Agency comes in at $7.7 billion, down some $2 billion from fiscal year 2009.
Or in other words, in 1983 the chocolate ration was 30 grams per week and in 1984 chocorats went up to 25 grams per week.
The Ministry of Truth Huntsville Times – all the news that’s fit to misprint…
Thanks to waltm for the idea of the Orwell 1984 theme.
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The omission of the details of whether operations in Huntsville will be affected is glaring.
I guess it’s a good thing the ultra conservative blue dog DEMOCRAT Griffith is in the House to preserve funding for the missile command and associated ops. I’m sure Griffith will show us his mettle, tell Punt Celosi where to stick it, and get the funding restored during reconciliation, plus an inflationary increase to boot.
Naw – jus’ kiddin’
Also from the Times, a story on the House passing their version of the bill:
A defense spending bill headed for the U.S. Senate increases money for Huntsville
missile defense programs
It also increases money to some missile defense programs, including the U.S. Navy
sea-based Aegis destroyer, which is managed and partly developed in Huntsville.
The entire Alabama delegation voted in favor of the bill.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/local.ssf?/base/news/1261131318102040.xml&coll=1
I wonder how the times will spin Parker jumping ship on the Dems….
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30896_Page2.html
District 5 is now RED!