Obama Wants To Cut 121 Programs - Media Ignores That Half Are Military

Yet another example of media bias, on several fronts today. First, this piece from the Detroit Free Press: Obama wants to cut or end 121 programs.

Uh - isn't cutting and ending the same thing? President Barack Obama plans to unveil today a fiscal 2010 budget full of details on his plans to save as much as $17 billion by cutting — and in some cases ending — 121 government programs.

The goal, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said, is “identifying and ending programs that are unneeded and don’t work.”

About half the savings would come from nonmilitary programs. Major cuts would include ending the Even Start program, which promotes family literacy, as well as a mine cleanup effort and the Education Department’s Paris attache.

Note that at this point the media just can't bring itself to say that half the cuts are to military programs. This is about as dishonest of a paragraph as you will see from the MSM. Later on, via Memorandum, the $3.4 trillion budget was revealed along with the relatively minuscule $17 billion in cuts, half of which come from the military. And therein lies more bias. Most major publications are not asking why only $17 billion is being cut as out national budget deficit goes through the roof this very year. Remember this graphic from the CBO?Which, by the way, is BAD! $17 billion wouldn't even be seen on the above graph without coke-bottle glasses. So much for "restoring a sense of responsibility" that Obama promised:

Ed Morrissey had a few comments about this over at HotAir:

Well, Barack Obama is a man of his word. (All right, all right, stop laughing.) According to the Associated Press, Obama has finished scouring the budget — and has found a whopping 0.5% of the budget to trim.

Apparently, we were all wrong. 99.5% of the federal budget is meat, and Obama found all the fat in that $17 billion. Just to remind everyone, $17 billion comprises just 4.25% of the increase in the federal budget under Obama. It amounts to somewhere around 2.2% of Porkulus. Obama just signed an omnibus spending bill that cost $410 billion, against which the cuts are about 4.25% as well. The pork-barrel line items in the omnibus spending plan alone amounted to almost half of what Obama just cut ($7.7 billion). And just to emphasize the point, the $17 billion amounts to 0.85% of 2009’s deficit, and only 1.7% of the lowest deficit projected by the Obama administration in any of the next ten years.

Oh SNAP! Gateway Pundit chimes in as well:

President Barack Obama proposed to cut almost $17 billion in programs, including tax breaks for oil and gas companies, while at the same time seeking an $81 billion increase for his socialist agenda. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) urged the President to do far more than the “tiny amount” of cuts McClatchy News reports the Administration is highlighting adding regardless of the Democrats’ claims on “eliminating waste,” their budget spends too much, it taxes too much, and it borrows too much.

Yes it does.