What was Yahoo! Thinking?

I was checking the news on Yahoo! today and came across an article entitled Millions Face Shrinking Social Security Payments in which I found something incredibly dishonest. Along with the article, directly below the headline, was a picture of President Obama, leading the reader to make a visual link between the president and the headline implying that it is because of him that social security payments will be going down.

The caption on the picture, written in light grey in tiny letters, is as follows:

"President Obama talks about the Afghan elections Friday, Aug. 21st, 2009, outside the White..."

So the picture isn't even associated with the article! How can they be so intellectually dishonest? Why does the media want seniors to be so afraid of the President?

Here is a screenshot of the article:

To make the issue even worse, the article states that the amount of the checks will NOT be decreasing (which would be illegal) but would be remaining the same, with no cost of living adjustment. The reason that the checks will be "shrinking" is because of increased premiums for medicare.

So, embedded in the article is another reason why we need to reform the health care system, but Yahoo! chose to portray the article as President Obama personally taking money away from senior citizens. Add that to the death panel lies and a pattern of scaring seniors starts to emerge...

What could their motives possibly be?