Biased news coverage

A recent article about anti-Pryor ad backers is, I believe, a prime example of lack of common sense, economic illiteracy and/or intent to deliberately deceive.

The article says the Obamacare insurance premium tax will cost insurance companies $100 billion over the next decade. I believe this is absolutely not true. Insurance companies will build the premium tax into their premium base and their customers will pay the tax. Any business that doesn’t include its tax expenses in the price it charges for its products will not stay in business very long. It is puzzling to me that “wire report” journalists and “Democrat-Gazette staff,” most of whom probably have college degrees, would compile a lengthy article on the subject and not once tell the readers that insurance buyers are going to pay the $100 billion insurance policy taxes.

Further down was the customary regurgitation of the always-handy Koch brothers phrase seemingly so much loved by left-wingers in the “news” craft. Big yawn! Amazingly, the compilers failed to climax the story with a link to the Tea Party. The wire services, staff reporters and liberal opinion writers should offer praises daily for Koch and Tea. How comforting. Go to the workplace, pop a Koch, pour a Tea and your workday is half-done.

In case the news writers and opinion columnists need help finding leftwing organizations that indulge in Arkansas politics, here are a few that are hidden in plain sight: George Soros, Media Matters, Center for American Progress, the Hollywood left, the pro-abortion racket, radical-left feminists such as Emily’s List, National Education Association, the SEIU, the AFL-CIO and many others. Open your eyes. GERALD HOLLAND

Springhill