According to a recommended diary, President Obama “folded” on tax cuts.  He is apparently going to allow tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to be permanently extended.  This would be very big news (and contradict what he said in his Weekly Radio Address just a week or two ago).  And it would be extremely depressing.

Since this is such big news, I immediately looked for ANY sources other than Huffington Post discussing this shocking development.  I found NONE.  Not the New York Times.  Not CNN.  Not even Talking Points Memo.  Even a Google News search found ONE internet link on this topic—Huffington Post.  Hmm, real interesting.  The President makes a major decision on a key issue, and no one except Huffington Post even discusses it. There are two possible reasons for that:

Every other newspaper, news network or internet news source chooses to ignore it (which seems unlikely, especially in the internet area of 24-hour news and instant information) or

Other news sources view an informal chat with a presidential advisor as NOT being indicative of the Commander-in-Chief’s decision.

I don’t think I am revealing anything shocking when I say that Huffington Post has an agenda, to promote “progressivism” as they see it by making our President look BAD.  They have done it before, and they’ll do it again.  Spreading rumors to anger his liberal base.  The sad thing is, we here at Daily Kos fall for it.  The giant headlines must scare us somehow!

I wish my fellow Kossacks would quit falling for this Huffington Post Crap!

Update:  I want to make it clear I am NOT advocating that Huffington Post hide away and not report about its interview with David Axelrod.  But when they take an informal, off the cuff interview with a presidential advisor and turn it into gigantic headlines claiming that Obama had reached some kind of decision and “folded” on tax cuts (when the actual interview says no such thing), Huffington Post is engaging in its own form of tabloid journalism, exaggerating what was actually said and turning it into the President’s decision, when it is no such thing! Read more at www.dailykos.com