How Dare Romney Say Obama Made Economy Worse: NYTimes Reporters Rush to Prez's Defense
New York Times reporters Trip Gabriel (pictured right) and Ashley Parker, who follow Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, respectively, teamed up for Saturday’s report from Las Vegas, “Republican Candidates Wrangle Over Nevada," rushing to Obama’s aide after a mild attack by Mitt Romney, and accused conservatives of carrying a “caricature” image of lefty donor George Soros.
With polls showing a double-digit lead over Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Romney confidently met with business leaders in northern Nevada. He never mentioned his rival, turning his focus to President Obama. “If I become president of the United States, I commit to be a friend of working people and employers and entrepreneurs and innovators,” he said.
He greeted the big economic story of the day -- that unemployment had fallen to 8.3 percent, a three-year low -- as “good news,” but he did not let up on Mr. Obama. “I know the president didn’t cause this downturn, this recession,” he said, “but he didn’t make it better either. He made it worse.”
It was a dubious statement, because the unemployment rate fell to precisely what it was during Mr. Obama’s first full month in office, February 2009, and nonideological economists agree that the stimulus actions taken by the administration and the Federal Reserve kept the recession from being worse.
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And he added to the theme that Mr. Romney is a moderate, closer to the president than what the conservative base of the Republican Party wants. He described a new video his campaign released on Friday that uses recent comments by George Soros that “there isn’t all that much difference” between Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney.
Mention of Mr. Soros, a billionaire whose support of liberal causes has made him a caricature villain in conservative circles, elicited boos and catcalls from the crowd of about 200. That delighted Mr. Gingrich, who offered, “See, at least you have an idea who George Soros is.”
Meanwhile, the left’s image of the Koch brothers as dangerous conservatives is taken at face value at the Times.
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The New York Times is Propaganda Central
Submitted by John21 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 9:14am.
The New York Times is Propaganda Central for the print media.
The idea of reporting any facts or truth is absolutly forbidden unless you can manipulate the facts to look good for the current administration. The NYT quit being a news organization a long time ago. They have very little credibility even in the news world. I say little credibility because the various socialist news organization in the EU and America see them as supporting the cause.
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” Ronald Reagan (1977)
Yep. Another "propo" for the
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 9:31am.
Yep. Another "propo" for the administration.
There are many people who
Submitted by ADK109 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 9:15am.
There are many people who speaks against Obama and Romney. New York Times reporters always has latest updates about US Economy. Some entrepreneurs and innovators says Obama had nothing done anything for US Economy.
http://www.financemetrics.com/articles/insurance
OH, I get it.
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 9:54am.
the unemployment rate fell to precisely what it was during Mr. Obama’s first full month in office, February 2009,
so all the months of the rate pushing 10% have disappeared, along with all those who dropped out of the employment pool.
In fact, says Jay Carney, that's a good thing!
It may have been 8.3% in February, but it was certainly lower before the stimulus, because the Obama administration said it would keep the rate under 8%.
Even the administration's cheerleader, Time Magazine, admitted it was a failure.
But now, after nearly 3 years of Obama-caused misery, we are supposed to forget it all, because, finally, the unemployment rate is only a little bit above where he said it wouldn't go.
falsehoods
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 10:16am.
Only a little bit indeed, and that's based on false information being fed to the masses. As evidenced by shawn in other threads, doesn't matter if it's false or not, it's good news, so who cares, right?
-Jon
real unemployment
Submitted by Huapakechi on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 10:48am.
This falls under the jurisdiction of "o"boy's 'department of truth', that cadre of apologists who will manipulate and obfuscate every datum in order to yield the best results for the goals of the current administration. The best examples are the open border with Mexico, "global warming", inflation, fracking for oil and gas, the Keystone pipeline project, emissions from coal fired power plants, battery powered automobiles, unemployment....... I could go on but the list is so damned depressing.
Do you ever ask why you're paying $3.50/gl for adulterated gasoline? Burning alcohol in internal combustion engines produces formaldehyde. Look up the MSDS on that substance for yourself if you really want a scare.
But leave it to the Times to ignore the facts...
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 10:34am.
The fact is that the government is funded by removing money from the private economy (known as the GDP) in order to fund the government and it's programs. Sure some of that money gets redirected back into the private economy but the massive overhead is already taken out so it is only a small portion of what was removed. So by definition, any increase in government funding is equal to a large percentage of that amount being removed from the GDP. The higher the government budget the less money in the GDP.
That's why government "stimulus" packages don't work and can't work. The other insideous issue is that any borrowing to fund the government (whether for stimulus or other purposes) subtracts from future GDP because the interest for that borrowing must be subtracted from future GDPs to pay for it. So the more borrowing by the government today, the lower the future GDP will be.
To sum it all up...increased spending by the government reduces current GDP (making the economy worse) and increased borrowing by the government reduces future GDP (making future economies worse). So Obama DID make it worse and will continue to be a drag on the economy for decades thanks to the massive spending and borrowing.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
NYT and Obama
Submitted by NVRAT on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 10:57am.
Both report and say empty words. Things have not gotten better nor have they improved. Everything is getting worse and the welfare and food stamp lists grows larger everyday. It is beyond me why organizations keep saying that things are better when more and more businesses close their doors, welfare rolls get larger, unemployment dollars are having to be extended, housing foreclosures keep rising, cost of food, gasoline, heating, water, medicine and everything else keeps going up and up. I have two family members and four friends that has dropped off the employment records, they cannot find jobs because foreign workers have been given visa`s and are flooding the markets and taking jobs that Americans once had. Then Obama stands in front of the people and declares everything is improving, what a bunch of Bullsh#t. Maybe if everyone would stop buying papers and the news organizations closed their doors and the reporters were laid off the true picture might emerge. This administration is a sham on
the American people and some of them like the NYT and other MSM`s are perpetuating this criminal activity without regards to anyone but themselves.
"Nonideological economists"? Like basilisks and gryphons?
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 10:59am.
And other mythological species? Where exactly does Trip Gabriel expect to find such a critter? Oz?
Aaaaahh were you better of 4 years ago...
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 11:01am.
Chart sezzzzzzz yes we were.
What about the children that were born in that time and added to the population?
You Didn't Build That.