Dear Colleagues,

Time and Newsweek magazines use their iconic covers to promote leftist themes and leaders while they denigrate conservatism and conservatives.

Conservatives are labeled on past covers as “Hell Raisers,” “Bully Boys,” “Preaching Fear,” “Uncle Scrooge,” “Down & Dirty,” and the “Avengers.”

Meanwhile, liberals are “Saviors of theWorld,” “Charming and Charismatic,” “One of a Kind,” “The Real Thing,” and “The Sunshine Boys.”

This has been a pattern for many years, but it reached its pinnacle with more than 30 Barack Obama covers that would have embarrassed his own PR team already known for their propensity to prematurely coronate their boss.

One cover—from four years ago—had the newly-elected Senator smiling from ear-to-ear: “Seeing Purple: A Rising Star WhoWants to Get Beyond Blue vs. Red.” Newsweek declared the Senator, then 99th in seniority, was “fully prepared to step into a leadership role….[he] offers fresh solutions.” Obama alone would merge the interests of the Red and Blue states.

The mainline news media refused to criticize any leftist. Barack Obama and Joe Biden might not have given much, if any, of their own wealth to help those less fortunate, but that was never examined.

Well, now we know the administration, which was sold to us as moderate and a unifying force, has embarked on an orgy of government spending and leftist ideology the likes of which we have never seen.

Americans recognized they got into personal trouble with excessive spending and borrowing, and the American
“consumer” was beginning to reform his spendthrift ways.

President Obama’s answer to that? Government spending on a scale unprecedented in human history.
Irresponsible individual behavior became a rationale for irresponsible governmental behavior.

Obama and Biden, who were so Scrooge-like with their own wealth suddenly, become Santa Claus with “Other
People’s Money!”

To this we say, “Enough!”

Enough with the leftist media bias. Enough with the phony politician’s compassion for those less fortunate. And
enough of spending other people’s hard-earned money.

This is not reform.

This is radicalism, and it must be challenged.

This issue of Libertas includes Dr. Burt Folsom’s critical look at FDR who sponsored his own leftist schemes
and John Stossel’s warning that we cannot create jobs by executive order. You will also find a free market and
pro-America perspective entrepreneur and CEO David Kim. The White House could benefit from their insights.

Sincerely,

Ron Robinson, President
Young America's Foundation