The language of the media coverage has become increasingly disengaged from reality, as the television networks and newspapers seek to conceal from the American people the wrecking operation that is underway in Washington against bedrock social programs on which tens of millions of elderly, disabled and low-income people rely for their survival.
McClatchy News Service referred in one recent dispatch to the Republicans opposing "unpopular tax increases," although all public opinion polls show widespread popular support for tax increases on the wealthy that go far beyond anything proposed or supported by the White House.
The truth is that tax increases on the wealthy are "unpopular" only in those circles inhabited by congressmen, senators, White House aides and media pundits -- among the super-rich and particularly well-heeled sections of the upper-middle class.
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