May 01, 2010

MFM Keeps Lying For Obama
— Ace

Here's CNN's headline:

Stimulus created nearly 683,000 jobs in first quarter

Created. Got that?

Here's the first line of the article:

The White House's $787 billion stimulus plan funded 682,779 jobs in the first quarter, administration officials said Friday.

Funded. Very different from "created."

Remember, the White House first wanted to change the criteria by which it would be judged from "created" -- the guage of every previous president -- to "created or saved," the latter being impossible to calculate and furthermore, being a wholly novel metric concocted only to benefit Obama, has no historical record against which to judge it. That is to say, even if we accept this metric as valid, how do we know if Obama is "saving or creating" more jobs than average, since we've never before measured this? Maybe Bush "saved or created" a lot more jobs.

At some point the White House decided that this made-up statistic was still too tough for Obama, so they changed their definition to "saved, or created, or funded." Merely funded. That is, if a dollar of federal money goes into paying/subsidizing a salary, that job counts as "saved or created or funded," as it was funded, after all. Whether or not it was saved or not is anyone's guess, but it was indeed funded.

It's also perfectly irrelevant. We care about the number of jobs in America, not whether the government is putting a little money to subsidize this one or that.

At any rate, Obama has now changed the standard by which he will be judged into something absolutely meaningless.

But look what CNN does here. Rather than headline the article with the meaningless "Obama Funds 682,779 jobs," they decide to amp up his accomplishment to Obama creates 682,779 jobs.

"Creating" jobs is the exact metric Obama has been running away from, because it so disfavors him. He has now reduced his burden twice, first to merely "saving" jobs, and then to even-more-merely "funding" them.

But CNN nevertheless gives him full credit in the headline for achieving the very Obama insists it would be unfair to measure him by.

Pretty cool, huh? First CNN rolls over and decides that sure, Obama is so special -- and apparently deserving of special treatment -- that he will be held to a meaningless standard for which there is no historical benchmark, thus ensuring his "success." Or, at least, no proof of his failure, as we simply have no other numbers to compare.

And then, having acceded to him on that, they nevertheless turn around and credit him for having met a real and verifiable goal which Obama himself refuses to be judged by.

Posted by: Ace at 01:35 PM | Comments (118)
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1 You got a problem with this, racist?

Posted by: Comrade Comrade at May 01, 2010 01:37 PM (Xt974)

2 I lied.

Posted by: John Matrix at May 01, 2010 01:39 PM (V/EYZ)

3 I believe that would be "creatin' jobs". You racist teabaggers keep harshing my populist lingo.

Posted by: dagny at May 01, 2010 01:39 PM (P1zVc)

4 More depressingly, stuff like this makes it clear that the MSM is in the tank for keeps. You might have indivduals who supported Obama in 2008 decide that they screwed up but the MSM as a whole is Obama's for life.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at May 01, 2010 01:40 PM (Xt974)

5 Nice catch, Ace. And more people are starting to notice this stuff. Thanks to smart military blogs like this one.

Posted by: nikkolai at May 01, 2010 01:41 PM (U0lNn)

6 That was quick - they've already "fixed" the headline.  Good work Ace!

Posted by: buzz at May 01, 2010 01:41 PM (kwhut)

7 Whoops - I misread.  Sorry.

Posted by: buzz at May 01, 2010 01:42 PM (kwhut)

8 This is what I've done to my children:  http://tinyurl.com/28pex78

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 01, 2010 01:42 PM (Fvb8v)

9 He could have created, saved or funded a million jobs for a million bucks by just giving everyone with a job a dollar.  Why spend $787 billion?

Posted by: bill at May 01, 2010 01:42 PM (X/Ydd)

10

Are we living in the twilight zone?

Serioulsy, ILLEGAL's are demonstrating today in our freakin country... Shakira ... not a US citizen is lecturing us on how to run our country...

The media is a bunch of liars who will let our country go down the tubes because of their sick love affair with Obama.

WTF.

Posted by: Timbo at May 01, 2010 01:47 PM (7GgDy)

11 Now, now, now, we all know that math is racist.  As well as being hard.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 01, 2010 01:48 PM (6Cojl)

12 Mother Fucking Media. Did you just make that up? Awesome!!!

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 01, 2010 01:50 PM (mHQ7T)

13 That V. B. stuff is coming up again. The Enquirer is saying "others are saying" she and the One were together during the campaign.

Posted by: Locus Ceruleus at May 01, 2010 01:51 PM (tzcjs)

14
Tiger Woods created 121 whores last year.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at May 01, 2010 01:52 PM (Oxen1)

15 Shakira, the fat chick?

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 01, 2010 01:52 PM (mHQ7T)

16 Nothing to add since the headline was such an obvious lie, other than to increase the pixels in the intertubes that CNN Lies. Constantly.  CNN fail.  No really, fail already.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at May 01, 2010 01:53 PM (7VvJB)

17 If a company hires 40 entry level people, then lays off 40 whose skills are no longer needed, that's 40 jobs created, right?

Just hypothetically.

We aren't talking about any particular company here.  So it doesn't have to be one with a lot of government contracts.

And we are remaining anonymous.

But that's 40, right?

Posted by: Who me? at May 01, 2010 01:54 PM (YhZfg)

18 Now, now, now, we all know that math is racist. As well as being hard. Don't go stepping on my lines, Bitch.

Posted by: High School Barbie at May 01, 2010 01:54 PM (4Kl5M)

19 The media is a bunch of liars who will let our country go down the tubes because of their sick love affair with Obama.

Not because they love him. They are paid to sing his praises. Every time you turn on NBC, you might as well be watching an infomercial. While Obama is literally President Sham Wow.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 01, 2010 01:55 PM (mHQ7T)

20 Regardless of what the amazing shrinking news network, CNN, claims, the simple fact remains that the unemployment rate remains as high as ever and O'Drama pissed away nearly a trillion dollars doing nothing to improve it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at May 01, 2010 01:57 PM (SHKl9)

21 While Obama is literally President Sham Wow.

See, the thing is that Sham Wow is actually a product that is useful. I don't really see Prez for Life Hussein as being particularly useful, except for pushing his Commie agenda. As for the media, well, they're all freaking Communists- I know, I work with quite a few of them locally.

Posted by: shibumi at May 01, 2010 01:58 PM (OKZrE)

22 Over the last 20 years the national press has voluntarily made itself absolutely meaningless. You couldn't even quote them in a high school debate anymore as a valid source. Sad.

Posted by: Tommy V at May 01, 2010 01:59 PM (gkc1e)

23 While Obama is literally President Sham Wow.

I will confidently state that I will not love his nuts. 

Posted by: alexthechick at May 01, 2010 01:59 PM (6Cojl)

24

www.lauraBush.com

look what our lovely President has done...

 

Posted by: Timbo at May 01, 2010 02:01 PM (7GgDy)

25 I created a 25 over par round of golf today. I will now create a serious hangover.

Posted by: dananjcon at May 01, 2010 02:01 PM (koGve)

26 Each of the 682,779 jobs cost $1,152,269.00. Now, it is likely that each of those jobs did not pay more than GS-15 step 1, which is around $120,000.00. So what happened to the other $1, 032, 269.00? Who got that money?

Posted by: mokimoki at May 01, 2010 02:02 PM (IrV7s)

27

Is this the same channel that has a doctor filling in for Anderson Cooper?

Why yes, yes it is.

Posted by: John McCain at May 01, 2010 02:02 PM (P33XN)

28 Timbo, what the heck is that? Why does that website direct you to an Obama fundraising website? What is going on in our country?

Posted by: mokimoki at May 01, 2010 02:03 PM (IrV7s)

29

The White House's $787 billion stimulus plan funded 682,779 jobs in the first quarter, administration officials said lied Friday.

 

Fixed.

Posted by: huerfano at May 01, 2010 02:03 PM (oSrBX)

30

I will now create a serious hangover.

You can have mine. I've been working on it all day since I got up.

 

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 01, 2010 02:04 PM (P33XN)

31 What Dr. Spank said.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 01, 2010 02:05 PM (P33XN)

32 Well, there is an upside to this nonsense. We won't have to wonder at what precise moment our news media turned into the Bureau of State Propaganda. All they need to do now is change the sign outside to read "Ministry of Truth".

Posted by: Monty at May 01, 2010 02:06 PM (O3eFQ)

33 While Obama is literally President Sham Wow.

See, the thing is that Sham Wow is actually a product that is useful.


President Sea Monkey. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 01, 2010 02:06 PM (OkT2m)

34

I think I blacked out for a second. Is that racist?

Only if you wake up only to discover you're wearing a KKK outfit.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 01, 2010 02:08 PM (P33XN)

35 President pet rock

Posted by: dananjcon at May 01, 2010 02:09 PM (koGve)

36 28 Timbo, what the heck is that? Why does that website direct you to an Obama fundraising website? What is going on in our country?

Posted by: mokimoki at May 01, 2010 06:03 PM (IrV7s)

 

exactly... freaking creepy as hell.

Posted by: Timbo at May 01, 2010 02:10 PM (7GgDy)

37 But look what CNN does here. Rather than headline the article with the meaningless "Obama Funds 682,779 jobs," they decide to amp up his accomplishment to Obama creates 682,779 jobs.

Are they sure it wasn't 682,779.32 jobs?  There were fractions of jobs on the recovery.gov multimillion dollar web site - just to drive home the fact that The Precedent doesn't understand what fractions really are.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 01, 2010 02:10 PM (Qp4DT)

38 President tits on a bull

Posted by: dananjcon at May 01, 2010 02:10 PM (koGve)

39 There is no vermin lower than the MFM. Democrats are saints compared to these nozzles. I will rejoice as each and every newspaper goes tits up, and as the History Channel outrates the Commie News Network. These people will never, ever tell the truth. Everything they say and write is suffused with false premises, faulty logic, and utter incomprehension of technical issues, not to mention a complete lack of understanding of the American electorate. Why do we continue to allow glue-sniffers in the Testor's plant? Never listen, read or in any way pay attention to these losers. Soon they will evacuate themselves from the bowels of earth into hell.

Posted by: Fresh Air at May 01, 2010 02:10 PM (oLEfK)

40 Question the narrative.

Posted by: Mindy at May 01, 2010 02:12 PM (q5Dtx)

41 Worst African American President ever.

Posted by: damian at May 01, 2010 02:13 PM (4WbTI)

42

When I was a kid, (and that was almost sixty years ago), the more stuff I got away with the more I was encouraged to do more dumb stuff. However, when the old man got home the good times came to a screeching halt and my happy ass got a meeting with his belt.

November 2010.

The old man is coming home. Maybe sooner.

Posted by: solitary knight at May 01, 2010 02:14 PM (KrTET)

43

Dr Spank at May 01, 2010 06:11 PM (HfesM)

The Gabriella video.

I wonder if that video is going to go viral? I hope so.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 01, 2010 02:16 PM (P33XN)

44 November 2010.

Sedition!

Posted by: Joe Klein, Deep Thinker at May 01, 2010 02:17 PM (tVyY+)

45 Math? Objective standards of grading? Doesn't sound like Harvard law to me.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 01, 2010 02:21 PM (Vo2Ef)

46 I'm liking the new moniker of MFM much better than the Left Wing Media or the Lame Stream Media .

 

Posted by: Dave C at May 01, 2010 02:23 PM (lO6sp)

47 #45 Pretty apt analogy considering his major daddy issues.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 01, 2010 02:25 PM (Vo2Ef)

48 is that frackin media? (MFM)?

Posted by: ParisParamus at May 01, 2010 02:28 PM (lf/rr)

49 Courage!!!!!!

Posted by: obama_hussein at May 01, 2010 02:30 PM (DLaJY)

50 Its clear that the communists first infiltrated journalism schools or their precursors and they did a good job of it. I pray the internet and citizen journalism can overcome this. I am still angry that it was not until they jumped the shark with Palin in 2008 that I woke up are realized they are not just spinning a bit for the DNC they are full on commie foot-soldiers.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 01, 2010 02:30 PM (WGGwF)

51 11 Now, now, now, we all know that math is racist.  As well as being hard. Posted by: alexthechick at May 01, 2010 05:48 PM (6Cojl) Being hard is racist? We morons are in a lot of trouble, then.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 01, 2010 02:36 PM (YqLxo)

52 I think it was the Supreme Hippy Ahead of His Time, Henry David Thoreau, who said something to the effect that news people were nothing more than a bunch of old ladies gossiping over their teacups.

Take away the politics and the egos and all the rest, and all you have left is a bunch of gossip hounds trying to dominate society.

Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2010 02:42 PM (aag4W)

53 Take away the politics and the egos and all the rest, and all you have left is a bunch of gossip hounds trying to dominate society.

You know, that's why I have more respect for the National Enquirer and Gawker.  They're honest about what they are.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 01, 2010 02:45 PM (6Cojl)

54

Whoa -- flashback --

-- something about Bush falling 5 million jobs short of being a successful president. I heard that pretty much every other day for a month.

Maybe I dreamt it -- I drank a lot of water back then, and they say that if you drink water that the cells in your brain have water in them like forever.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 01, 2010 02:45 PM (cQyWA)

55 So what happened to the other $1, 032, 269.00? Who got that money?

Posted by: mokimoki

Right here. Into this mouth.

And, dammit, I'm still hungry.

Posted by: Leviathan at May 01, 2010 02:46 PM (zgd5N)

56

You know, that's why I have more respect for the National Enquirer and Gawker.  They're honest about what they are.

Blogs aside, TMZ might be the most reputable media outlet in America.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 01, 2010 02:47 PM (cQyWA)

57 MFM Keeps Lying For Obama
I know what MFM stands for -- and it's awesome!!  Go Ace

Posted by: Richard Romano at May 01, 2010 02:54 PM (jlgjV)

58 Yep, go to laura bush dot com and you get OFA.  If you want to visit the former first lady's website, you've got to go to www.laurawbush.com.  Sneaky MFers, ain't they?

Posted by: Theresa D at May 01, 2010 02:57 PM (iGCmo)

59 So if they created 683,000 jobs can we assume that when the gubmint gravy to pay for them runs out that Obama will have lost 683,000 jobs as well? Color me confuzzled.

Posted by: Economically illiterate tea bagger at May 01, 2010 02:58 PM (fkgyi)

60 What kills me is the way the MFM just regurgitates what ever the hell the Obama administration pukes into their mouth.

Posted by: TSgt Ciz at May 01, 2010 02:58 PM (ymwj3)

61

At any rate, Obama has now changed the standard by which he will be judged into something absolutely meaningless

Isn't that the affirmative action approach?

Posted by: kansas at May 01, 2010 03:00 PM (2kVkH)

62  What kills me is the way the MFM just regurgitates what ever the hell the Obama administration pukes into their mouth.

Posted by: TSgt Ciz

Sometimes they swallow.

Posted by: kansas at May 01, 2010 03:01 PM (2kVkH)

63 What kills me is the way the MFM just regurgitates what ever the hell the Obama administration pukes into their mouth.

Regurgitate? I swallow it!

Posted by: Keith Olberdouche at May 01, 2010 03:02 PM (tVyY+)

64 Everything about Obama is a lie.

Posted by: Rewrite! at May 01, 2010 03:04 PM (d7Px0)

65 Some spit, some swallow, some leave it splattered all over their faces.

Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2010 03:04 PM (aag4W)

66

Settle down, you lot.  GM payed off their debts, and we're all getting dividends.

Be happy.

Posted by: Rewrite! at May 01, 2010 03:07 PM (d7Px0)

67

Some spit, some swallow, some leave it splattered all over their faces.

Ew. (We're talking about puke here, y'know.)

Posted by: FireHorse at May 01, 2010 03:07 PM (cQyWA)

68 Q:  will we have a 2012 presidential election, or martial law?

Posted by: Rewrite! at May 01, 2010 03:08 PM (d7Px0)

69

Q:  will we have a 2012 pres?idential election, or martial law

A: We'll have an election. Any votes for the wrong candidates will be judged to have been cast by the clinically insane whose votes will be discarded.

(The camps are looking better all the time, aren't they?)

Posted by: FireHorse at May 01, 2010 03:11 PM (cQyWA)

70 You couldn't even quote them in a high school debate anymore as a valid source.

Still, it's better than quoting Obama as evidence that Obama has fixed the economy. Well, maybe.

Posted by: dudeinsantacruz, judge of terrible HS debate at May 01, 2010 03:12 PM (18QwQ)

71 "Martial law" is not so impossible now, at the president's whim, forces against the public might be called out, even Canadian forces.

http://fwd4.me/MH3

Posted by: bill at May 01, 2010 03:14 PM (X/Ydd)

72 If you like your bill collectors, you can keep them.

Posted by: Easy Bake at May 01, 2010 03:14 PM (p+Ba1)

73

Why, that's less than 1.2 million dollars per job!  Are there no heights of effectiveness to which this amazing President cannot soar?

It makes me long to gather among massive crowds of like-minded folk and demand he come to the White House balconey, and while he thrusts his patrician jaw skyward, we all scream out in ecstacy:

"Douch-ey! Douch-ey! Douch-ey!"

Posted by: sherlock at May 01, 2010 03:14 PM (thr9V)

74 Ok, I can't get past the fact that those OFA douches took that domain name. How amazingly tacky.

Posted by: stace at May 01, 2010 03:18 PM (g/wgk)

75 (The camps are looking better all the time, aren't they?)

I get a top bunk!

Posted by: alexthechick at May 01, 2010 03:18 PM (6Cojl)

76
Pick the tax payer's pocket to pay for a new tax payer funded government job.

Funded!


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 01, 2010 03:21 PM (0fzsA)

77 Poor purple,stringbean prez, whining about the anti-govt crowd while giving the commencement speech at Mich U. He cannot fathom that it him and his Chicago thug cronies that we despise.

Posted by: S'norin desert at May 01, 2010 03:25 PM (vLwYg)

78 Now you understand when Obama said he wanted to grow the economy from the bottom up. This college professor is the worst thing to happen to this country.

Posted by: Birdman at May 01, 2010 03:25 PM (Uf4aV)

79 *it's*

Posted by: S'norin desert at May 01, 2010 03:27 PM (vLwYg)

80 at least Obama isn't competent, like Castro

Posted by: dudeinsantacruz at May 01, 2010 03:29 PM (18QwQ)

81 THIS is huge!  Who else should it have been?

Posted by: Dan at May 01, 2010 03:34 PM (9L1z6)

82 I'd give my left nut and my kid's left nut if Mitt were president right now

Posted by: Birdman at May 01, 2010 03:36 PM (UUkhk)

83 One of the few reporters I ever trusted,

http://tiny.cc/bv48d

Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2010 03:38 PM (aag4W)

84 Stalin used to say it didn't matter who votes,it matters who counts the votes.

Posted by: steevy at May 01, 2010 03:44 PM (aSwTK)

85

Also in his commencement speech to the Mich grads he said anyone that listens to Rush or Glen Beck should go to HuffPo for better commentary.

Posted by: S'norin desert at May 01, 2010 03:45 PM (vLwYg)

86 BTW I was the poster who suggested we call them the MFM(Mother Fucking Media).I can haz a share of that crazy blog money??

Posted by: steevy at May 01, 2010 03:46 PM (aSwTK)

87 That asshole, President Sphincter, turned the miner's memorial service into a political event, too. Shameless bastard.

Posted by: Birdman at May 01, 2010 03:47 PM (Uf4aV)

88 86 I'd give a pinky finger for Hillary.

Posted by: steevy at May 01, 2010 03:47 PM (aSwTK)

89 It should be changed to MDM - Main Democrat Media.

Posted by: TimothyJ at May 01, 2010 03:47 PM (IKKIf)

90 we need to consolidate in one thread

Posted by: Birdman at May 01, 2010 03:48 PM (UUkhk)

91 Morons assemble!

Posted by: Birdman at May 01, 2010 03:48 PM (Uf4aV)

92

"a real and verifiable goal which Obama himself refuses to be judged by."

I AM A GOD.  yOU CANNOT JUDGE ME.  I AM BEYOND yOUR PATHETIC UNDERSTANDING.  ABOVE yOU. BETTER THAN.  SUPERIOR IN ALL POSSIBLE ASPECTS.  IT IS yOUR DUTY TO DO ONLY ONE THING BEFORE ME  - GROVEL. UNDERSTAND NOW, INSECT?

Posted by: Prezidizzle Obizzle at May 01, 2010 03:53 PM (8MuSQ)

93 85 THIS is huge!  Who else should it have been?

Posted by: Dan at May 01, 2010 07:34 PM (9L1z6)

Yeah, so Romney is talking up Regan now, instead of telling us that we needed to forget about Reagan.

How much difference a couple of years (reading polls) makes!

Posted by: El Diablo Blanco Con Ojos Azules en San Diego at May 01, 2010 04:06 PM (F09Uo)

94 Speaking of numbers the organizers of the Chicago May Day/Illegals rally said 20,000 showed up. Chicago Police said more like 8,000. Obviously the CPD's counting is racist

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 01, 2010 04:06 PM (jigvh)

95 Ya know, it's sad that I have to see this as something of a good thing (compared to other media productions, mind).  The lying is a constant, but they're really trying to be a bit more honest by admitting to the "or funded [to any infinitesimal degree]" part that has been counted from the very beginning. 

Posted by: Cortillaen at May 01, 2010 04:22 PM (gusJY)

96

@88: "Stalin used to say it didn't matter who votes,it matters who counts the votes"

I'll let you count the votes if I can select the candidates......

Posted by: Prezidizzle Obizzle at May 01, 2010 04:35 PM (8MuSQ)

97 But fewer jobs are taxed under Obama, aren't they? Woo-hoo!

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2010 04:35 PM (FcR7P)

98 I bought a soda today.  I'm pretty sure it created about 50,000 jobs.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at May 01, 2010 05:13 PM (lq3tX)

99

Frankly, Mitt -Romney  =  Wendell Wilkie, and just about as exciting.

 

Someone, or several someones, will emerge by the middle of 2011.  I have a couple of people in mind besides T-Paw or Mittens, but these guys are about as exciting as cold oatmeal.

Posted by: Reader CJ Burch says.. at May 01, 2010 05:16 PM (sJTmU)

100

If you look at the last 3 quarters of GDP growth you will find that the $867 Billion Stimulus and the government as a whole supplied exactly 0 to the growth. That is 0 as in nothing, nadda, zip, snake eyes. Any additions to GDP by the federal government was offset by subtractions to the GDP by state and local governments and of course the federal stimulus money went to the states.

That would explain why Obama has to make up employment numbers.

Posted by: robtr at May 01, 2010 05:20 PM (fwSHf)

101 100

@88: "Stalin used to say it didn't matter who votes,it matters who counts the votes"

GOOD NEWS!

Stalin also said, "quantity has a quality all it's own."  And the quantity and quality of the Bullshit coming from these insects that infest our government is such that no one listens to them anymore, or ever will.  (Sura 2:29)

Posted by: 7HEAVENS at May 01, 2010 05:24 PM (+WBPm)

102 Holy Crap!  How do I explain that every dollar spent by the Government to fund a job is TWO DOLLARS that the ACTUAL ECONOMY does not get to spend to ACTUALLY save or create jobs, or to save or create ACTUAL goods and services.  In other words, every dollar the government spends -- regardless of its impact on wealth creation (which is almost always negative) -- is two dollars that the ACTUAL REAL-LIFE ECONOMY does not get to spend to ACTUALLY create ACTUAL wealth.

Posted by: Uriel at May 01, 2010 05:31 PM (5XpwW)

103 "He could have created, saved or funded a million jobs for a million bucks by just giving everyone with a job a dollar.  Why spend $787 billion?"

The other $786,999,000,000 is for all his asshole-buddies in the labor union "leadership", the Demonrat "retirees (aka: Rats Leaving A Clearly-Sinking Ship Of State) and the ones who remain - for now - as payback for all the rilly, rilly fine work they all did, putting the whole "Scamulus" thingy in place...

CNN has, of course, provided proof once more that, while figures (themselves) do not lie, liars (including The Obamanation & Co., plus assorted hangers-on) can be depended upon to figure out a way to make them a) in reality irrelevant and b) seem to say whatever they wish.

Yet more Change that we can definitely Believe in...

Posted by: J.S.Bridges at May 01, 2010 05:50 PM (XYQlH)

104 @ Heather Radish

He is as useless as a Sea Monkey, but I bet it's racist to say so.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 01, 2010 06:15 PM (mHQ7T)

105

Ok assuming you are stupid enough to buy the Obama bullshit, let's analyze a bit.

The stimulus was supposed to turn the economy around.  We have yet to gain ONE SINGLE JOB  NET.

Not one. 
This country is pealing jobs every single month. 

Here's the analogy.

Every single day I walk to work and lose a ten dollar bill out of my pocket.  10 days in a row.

On the eleventh day I only lose 5 dollars.  

Is that good news???

Posted by: gus at May 01, 2010 06:30 PM (MaqIC)

106 So the media is lowering the bar for Obama. They could have done it for Bush. They didn't. We know ideology was at play even though Bush was a "compassionate conservative" which is to say "liberal." So the classical meme was that the "unemployment rate sucked under Bush !eleventy!!" and the GOP was at fault.

OK, so let's say ideology and politics was played by the press. Not new and everyone knows it. But what about Clinton? The Left loved Clinton, the first Black president, and the press didn't change the labor metric for him now did it? Up through Bush, everyone got the "jobs created" treatment.

Which leaves us, as you said, Ace, where we are today. Obama gets the historically unique carveout, the lowered bar of metrics and expectations. He is, uniquely, not up to snuff. Ideology doesn't even explain the difference in treatment though it's surely part of it.

Obama is getting handled differently from every other president that preceded him. Seems kinda racist, doesn't it?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 01, 2010 07:07 PM (swuwV)

107

Gus, I'll give you another analogy.

You fall out of an airplane and begin accelerating toward the ground at 32ft per second, per second. Realizing you are in trouble since you don't have a parachute you stick out your arms and legs. At approximately 4 seconds your rate of acceleration begins to slow by half. At 5 seconds your acceleration has halved again, and so on until about 8 seconds your acceleration is nearly zero! And you haven't hit bottom yet,,,, According to Obama, you'll be just fine! The stimulus of sticking our your arms and legs must be working!!

No matter that you are hurtling toward the ground at about 135MPH.

And the MFM buys and sells this shit to the public. Worst of all, the public eats it up.

Posted by: TSgt Ciz at May 01, 2010 07:43 PM (ymwj3)

108 Soft bigotry of low expectations.

Posted by: TomInKorea at May 01, 2010 08:53 PM (+gX1+)

109 No matter that you are hurtling toward the ground at about 135MPH

Hey, so far so good, right?

Posted by: Purple Avenger at May 01, 2010 09:34 PM (KTanE)

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