{"id":1943056,"date":"2023-06-02T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/extremist-conservatives-and-reasonable-liberals-how-the-media-covered-the-debt-ceiling-deal-holdouts\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T21:04:13","slug":"extremist-conservatives-and-reasonable-liberals-how-the-media-covered-the-debt-ceiling-deal-holdouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/extremist-conservatives-and-reasonable-liberals-how-the-media-covered-the-debt-ceiling-deal-holdouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Media&#8217;s Coverage of Debt Ceiling Deal Holdouts: &#8216;Extremist&#8217; Conservatives vs. &#8216;Reasonable&#8217; Liberals."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fextremist-conservatives-and-reasonable-liberals-how-the-media-covered-the-debt-ceiling-deal-holdouts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1943056&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Congress Raises Debt Ceiling Amidst Media Hype<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>In the end, Congress raised the debt ceiling and America paid down its ever-growing loans. But the run-up to the legislation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/debt-limit-biden-mccarthy-senate-house-default-b8c3566b0c9cb168d9706aa256e327f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passage<\/a> this week was filled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/constitutional-crisis-or-political-war\/\" title=\"Constitutional Crisis or Political War\">media hype<\/a> and breathless coverage of threats from both sides of the aisle to scuttle a deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>The Right vs. The Left<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>The difference between the characterizations of the respective threats was telling. The right was consistently described as &#8220;extremist,&#8221; &#8220;far-right,&#8221; or &#8220;hardliners,&#8221; with war metaphors abounding.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/18\/politics\/mccarthy-biden-debt-ceiling\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: &#8220;The US Economy Could Depend on McCarthy Corralling His <em>Extremist Republican Troops<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1662559327524204547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>: &#8220;<em>Hard-Right Republicans Gird for &#8216;War&#8217;<\/em> on Debt Ceiling Deal&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/27\/1177688226\/debt-ceiling-deal-biden-mccarthy-latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR<\/a>: &#8220;Members of the <em>far-right House Freedom Caucus blasted<\/em> the deal on Sunday.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/house-gop-hardliners-trash-debt-limit-bill-party-leaders-try-shore-vot-rcna86687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>: &#8220;New Debt Limit Bill <em>Trashed by GOP Hard-Liners<\/em> as Party Leaders Push for Votes&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/05\/30\/debt-ceiling-gop-rebellion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Axios<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;GOP Leaders Bullish on Debt Ceiling Vote Despite <em>Rebellion<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, to hear the media tell it, House Democratic critics of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/extremist-conservatives-and-reasonable-liberals-how-the-media-covered-the-debt-ceiling-deal-holdouts\/\" title=\"Media's Coverage of Debt Ceiling Deal Holdouts: 'Extremist' Conservatives vs. 'Reasonable' Liberals.\">debt-ceiling deal simply cared<\/a> too much about good policy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/05\/02\/debt-ceiling-democrats-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a>: &#8220;<em>Democrats<\/em> Harden Their Message on the Debt Ceiling While <em>Quietly Paving<\/em> the Way for a Deal&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/28\/us\/politics\/biden-debt-limit-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>: &#8220;In Pursuit of <em>Consensus<\/em>, Did Biden Find the <em>Reasonable Middle<\/em> or <em>Give Away Too Much<\/em>?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1661099996987400197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>: &#8220;Amidst &#8216;both sides&#8217; chatter in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-says-republicans-wont-help-democrats-pay-for-socialist-shopping-list-in-debt-ceiling-fight\/\" title=\"McConnell Says Republicans Won\u2019t Help Democrats Pay For \u2018Socialist Shopping List\u2019 In Debt Ceiling Fight\">debt ceiling fight<\/a>, the tricky part is identifying <em>what, exactly, Democrats have done to warrant blame<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/19\/1176938636\/debt-limit-14th-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR<\/a>: &#8220;A key issue <em>causing many on the left heartburn<\/em> is Biden&#8217;s recent signal that he&#8217;s considering some changes to federal safety net programs, a central Republican demand.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/05\/19\/debt-ceiling-house-progressives-biden-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Axios<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;Dozens of House <em>progressives<\/em> on Friday warned President Biden that they <em>won\u2019t vote for a &#8216;bad deal&#8217;<\/em> to raise the debt ceiling, urging him instead to invoke the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many news reports code-switched from one paragraph to the next\u2014or even within a single sentence\u2014when describing both sides of the debate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/mccarthys-next-challenge-sell-debt-ceiling-deal-congress-2023-05-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>: &#8220;The deal has drawn fire from <em>hardline Republicans<\/em> and <em>progressive Democrats<\/em>, but Biden and McCarthy are banking on getting enough votes from both sides.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2023\/05\/28\/debt-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/li>\n<li>Members of the <em>staunchly conservative<\/em> House Freedom Caucus have already <em>balked<\/em> at the measure, tweeting their objections after House Republicans held an all-member briefing Saturday evening. Many have echoed their informal adviser Russ Vought, former president Donald Trump\u2019s OMB director, who argues the deal will mean $4 trillion in additional debt and who directed conservatives to <em>&#8220;fight&#8221; against the bill with &#8220;all their might.&#8221;<\/em> &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>More broadly, <em>Democrats<\/em> have been <em>worried<\/em> for weeks that the White House has not defended the party\u2019s priorities and even Sunday were struggling to understand whether there will be enough support to pass the measure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the bill passed the House with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-passing-partisan-covid-19-bill-says-senate-minority-leader-mcconnell\/\" title=\"\u2018Majority passing \u2018partisan\u2019 COVID-19 bill,\u2019 says Senate Minority Leader McConnell\">broad bipartisan support<\/a>, a number of news outlets expressed surprise that leading &#8220;conservative firebrands&#8221; were among the &#8220;yea&#8221; votes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/05\/31\/mccarthy-debt-limit-deal-gop-divisions-00099567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>: &#8220;How Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene Helped McCarthy Get His Debt Deal Through&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2023\/05\/thomas-massie-saved-the-economy-and-kevin-mccarthy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York magazine<\/a>: &#8220;The Quirky Conservative Who Saved the Economy and McCarthy&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some seemed almost disappointed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/06\/01\/house-f \n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>outcome and the media&#8217;s coverage of the debt ceiling raise was stark. 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