The only thing that keeps liberals going is bad news. Good news is bad news for all liberals, they are such hypocrites.

With the booming, booming, booming Bush economic boom continuing to boom and boom and boom (including a 3.9% growth rate in the last quarter!) Matt Lauer is praying to his earth goddess that an economic collapse occurs prior to the 2008 election, so that he then can better campaign for the Democrat party's candidates and  lobby for its thoroughly discredited Marxist/socialist economic theories.

What friggin hypocrisy.

In 2000, Bush mentioned on a stump speech that economy was slowing down, which by all economic factors was true. The media marxists such as Lauer and the perky one, along with the full onslaught of the democRATS had a cow that Bush was talking down the economy.

Matt, you are a joke and so is your whole news organization. No wonder GE is trying to put you on the selling block. Too bad Mr Murdoch doesn't buy you guys and shut you down.

What is wrong with Matt Lauer? 

card holding member of the vast right-wing conspiracy

Well, it may not be fair to compare Lauer with Charlie Gibson, over at CBS -- but with a bit of research, I suspect that this could be sustained:

But back in Aug of 2000, when the DOW was off it's high by 1,100 points, the Nasdaq was down 58% from it's highs, unemployment claims were soaring, CA was in the midst of the Enron blamed energy crisis, the manufacturing index had been in a steep plummet and was nearing the low point in the cycle (continued down until April 2001); here's Gibson pushing the campaign of Al Gore because the economy is so strong:

"The Dow has tripled, we've gone from deficit to surplus,' and that this will give Al Gore a chance to talk about the economy, a new chance to talk about the economy." Aug 3rd, 2000.

What? The economy was dying in the moment, and heading into recession.

Many economists, even the MSM's favorite leftist economists, like Dean Baker, were - and had been - screaming about the dangers facing Americans (especially the working class), when that bubble collapsed. The reason that the federal (and states) budget deficit would quickly swing from surpluses to huge deficits was because of the historic bubble crash in we were still in the midst of; the reason millions of Americans would loose their jobs was because of what was happening in that moment. In fact, IBD put together a great chart this past year (with a little nudge from yours truly) - tells the picture:

Bush’s Big Chalenge: The Greatest Destruction of Wealth in U.S History

Back then, Gibson and the MSM choose to ignore the news of what was happening, and instead, kept pushing his view of the great news simply for the purpose of keeping the Democrats in the White House. This time, they are playing it the other way. Simply put - he either out and lied to the American people or was totally ignorant of the facts - take your pick. This site and the MRC has documented time and time again examples of how our media plays this game. They hide, or play down, the bad news during Democrat administrations; but during Republican administrations they hype up bits of bad news during good times, and  selcom report the good news - in fact when there is exceptional surprisingly good news, they always hype up the bad feelings that "some" ["but some say"] have.