social security and medicare the public doesn't but obama's advisors to. so interesting why did the corporate media go along with the g.o.p.'s narrative or perhaps the g.o.p.'s narrative and obama's the debt ceiling had anything to do with the budget. deficits why were they. why would they touch the notion of why wouldn't they touch the notion of this is a hostage taking it's. well again here what you have to understand about mainstream recorders is that they're not in the business like you are offering the big picture you know they don't step back and look down on the field and give the big facts what they do is they position themselves they position themselves equally distant between the elites of the two major parties and if the elites of the two major parties are yelling about the debt crisis and ignoring unemployment in the mainstream reporters loathe the elite parties and you know i wrote a column this week talking about how you know if you were recording on this from