{"id":6909,"date":"2012-01-28T00:02:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T08:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2012-01-28T00:02:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T08:02:58","slug":"blitzer-shows-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/blitzer-shows-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitzer Shows Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans have claimed that, however right-slanted the media has become, it is liberal and biased against them.  In this way, they can deflect as the rare instances, when they are confronted with the truth, as liberal media attacks.  Most of the time media are very helpful to Republicans, such as Newt\u2019s John King moment<\/em>.  Here Wolf Blitzer let both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich off the hook.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"28Blitzer\"American homes have lost $7 trillion in value over the last five years and four million homeowners are either behind on their payments or in foreclosure, but thus far, the Republican Party\u2019s leading presidential candidates have offered little in the way of solutions<\/a> for the housing crisis that is holding back the economic recovery. Few states have been hit harder than Florida, where prices have dropped 45 percent since 2006, half of recently-sold homes are in default, and 23 percent<\/a> of of homes are delinquent or in foreclosure.<\/p>\n

That made last night\u2019s debate, which was held in Jacksonville, the appropriate place to ask the remaining Republican candidates how they would address the crisis. Voters, in fact, were waiting<\/a> to hear the candidates\u2019 answers. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the debate\u2019s moderator, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, bungled his opportunity, turning to a submitted question that couldn\u2019t have possibly led to substantive answers from the candidates. And then, after Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney gave answers littered with falsehoods and turned the discussion toward each others\u2019 investment portfolios, Blitzer failed to press them for actual plans to deal with housing<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

…Watch it:<\/p>\n