When NewsBusters reported earlier today that media members were depicting April's 539,000 jobs loss as "good news," I never imagined anyone would characterize the data as "employment doing well."
Yet, that's how Politico's "44" blog -- "A Living Diary of the Obama Presidency" -- first teased Friday's Labor Department announcement at its front page.
Here's a screen-cap of the first picture taken some time after 10:23 AM EDT:
Someone must have realized how absurd this was and changed it to:
Well, what do you expect from a living diary?
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Yet, that's how Politico's "44" blog -- "A Living Diary of the O
May 8, 2009 - 12:24 ET by Paul AtreidesYet, that's how Politico's "44" blog -- "A Living Diarrhea of the Obama Presidency" -- first teased Friday's Labor Department announcement at its front page. ---------------------- There, I fixed it so that it is more truthful.
How many more victories like
May 8, 2009 - 12:26 ET by snaggletoothieHow many more victories like this can we live through?
It's a good thing we don't
May 8, 2009 - 14:39 ET by kgIt's a good thing we don't have Bush's terrible 100,000 job loses anymore.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
You think that the spin
May 8, 2009 - 12:38 ET by SeashellYou think that the spin would be a little different if this were a republican admin.?
Oh this is rich Noel...what
May 8, 2009 - 12:46 ET by bigtimerOh this is rich Noel...what a difference a party makes when the msm is reporting...especially the stock market reports....I haven't forgot all the reporting over the years with them, when it was really good news during the Bush years, they always added a ...but...but...but...as they spun away, telling us what was really wrong with these numbers, no matter the topic that was relative to the report.
Hypocrisy runs deep.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Remember how the media
May 8, 2009 - 12:49 ET by 10ksnookerRemember how the media reamed Bush when his job loss came in at 539,000?
And ZERO's numbers was padded with 66,000 temp jobs for the crooked census. I bet all this would have skated right by the drive-by media, if it were Bush, don't you?
120,000 New "Legal" Immigrants Per Month
May 8, 2009 - 12:55 ET by zeestephenThe USA economy must create 120,000 new jobs each month just to accommodate new citizens, new "legal residents" (Green Cards), and for H1B visas.
Lord knows how many jobs must be created for "illegal residents."
And, off the top of my head, natural population growth requires another 200,000 new jobs each month.
And "Politico" claims that employment - at NEGATIVE 540,000 jobs - is doing well.
Anybody know if "Politico" is hiring?
I guess they had to hide the pom-poms
May 8, 2009 - 13:15 ET by mvfreemanThey should have avoided the spin and just give the numbers and let readers make up their own minds.
Its aggravating and insulting that the media feels they have to explain the news to you instead of just reporting it.
Can you imagine similar headlines?
Police in tense standoff. Only 1 hostage killed. Negotiations going well.
One of those chairs should be empty
May 8, 2009 - 13:13 ET by katainkentmy husband's office went from 9 people to 2 with a manager splitting time between two departments. And he and this other person split time between themselves for the hours allotted for their department. Neither of them even get paid for a full week.
hey, kudos for trying to talk us out of a recession, Politico. How many people did the government hire last month?
Hold on ‘cause the world will turn if you're ready or not ~ KT Tunstall
Breaking news!! Job losses end.
May 8, 2009 - 15:06 ET by Gary HallBreaking news!! Job losses end.
Providing yet more proof that Obama's stimulus plan is working, the Obama Labor Department announced today that the last job in America was lost today. Now finally, there can be no more job losses and the hiring can begin.
Mission Accomplished.
It is sweet revenge for Obama's big-government policies when
May 8, 2009 - 15:36 ET by Rush Fana well-known liberal economist and one of Obama's biggest supporters, Robert Reich, says this about President Obama's bailout of the auto makers:
"It's an almost impossible dilemma," said former labor secretary Robert B. Reich, now a professor at the University of California-Berkeley. "GM is a global company -- so for that matter is AIG and the biggest Wall Street banks. That means that bailing them out doesn't necessarily redound to the benefit of the U.S. or American workers."
Reich was commenting on a Washington Post story that states: ... when the automaker completes its restructuring plan, many of the company's new jobs will be filled by workers overseas.
Professor Reich further went on to say: "More significantly, it raises fundamental questions about the purpose of bailing out these big companies. If GM is going to do more of its production overseas, then why exactly are we saving GM?"
EXACTLY!
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"Obama knows this stimulus won't work. The Democrats know it won't work, too, and yet they want to do it. So why do they want to do it? Well, it must accomplish something, and it does, folks: it buys votes." ~ Rush Limbaugh
RF... Exactly
May 8, 2009 - 15:49 ET by bigtimerRF...
Exactly indeed.
Priceless actually.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Rush Fan.. Sec. Reich is a dandy..
May 8, 2009 - 15:58 ET by Gary HallRush Fan.. Sec. Reich is a dandy.. You should hear him on health care reform. Here's what he told the students in a lecture at UC Berekely:
The students? Believe it or not, they applauded and hooted thru most of it. The brainwashing is complete.
You can listen to the audio of the whole lecture here: UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: PolySci 179 look for the 9/26/07 lecture....
(;~> gary
Gary
May 8, 2009 - 23:16 ET by Rush FanThanks for the link.
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“This is not about creating jobs. This is the exact opposite. This is all about rebuilding the Democrat Party into an unbeatable entity. It's about remaking the United States of America without the Constitution as the guiding light.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
Oh, I know this game
May 8, 2009 - 15:32 ET by TheCynicWe should just predict 1 million jobs lost every month.
That way, no matter how many jobs we lose, as long as it's less than one million it will be "good news" and a sign that the economy is "improving".
When there are less then
May 8, 2009 - 15:47 ET by general company1m, Obama can claim he "saved" the rest
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
NO FAN OF OBAMA BUT
May 8, 2009 - 19:26 ET by Paarlstill a a lot left over from the Bush final year...only starting about now can you really starting putting Obamas initials on the economy. And he is going to have his initials on a lot of bad news over the coming months.
I am in the trucking/courier biz in northern NJ and the economy is in deep collapse especially amongst small and medium biz...in the cardboard..packaging..printing (in a secular decline as well)...specialized machinery (machine tools)...NOONE IS GOING TO BE HIRING AT ALL FOR 12-18 months at least....we are benefiting because a lot of medium sized businesses are mothballing their own trucks and drivers....
OBAMA is stepping in it real bad with tax increases on many small biz owners including me..my est quarterlies are up 25%+...and same with our contract independent drivers who WILL NOT be purchasing new or near new trucks/vans for a while...
Paarl of RHodesia
Paarl... I Wish You the
May 8, 2009 - 19:50 ET by bigtimerPaarl...
I Wish You the Best.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Expectation was 600,000?
May 8, 2009 - 21:25 ET by GregEExpectation was 600,000? Ok, add 66,000 government workers to 539,000 and its there.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/67789.html
I don't consider expanding government payrolls "progress" on the employment front.
NewsBusters hates improvement
May 9, 2009 - 07:15 ET by RagamuffinNewsBusters idea of liberal media bias = making a story's headline more accurate.
Ragamuffdivers idea of a
May 9, 2009 - 08:03 ET by Jack BauerRagamuffdivers idea of a straight "news" headline --
changing it from a definitive opinion into another arguable opinion couched in the shape of a rhetorical question.
Neither having any relationship with an unbiased news story, as both headlines inject an uncalled-for tendentious opinion in varying degrees.
changing it from a
May 9, 2009 - 13:32 ET by RagamuffinI'd ask you what the "another arguable opinion was but there's no point in that right? I'd just get another personal attack by someone unqualified to either answer or insult.
And you are so qualified how?
May 10, 2009 - 06:12 ET by TheHistorianQuit bashing people because they don't like your opinions. Stand up for what you believe. After all, we still have free speech this week.
What makes your opinion so qualified and theirs so unqualified?
Why so dumb? Is it real, or
May 11, 2009 - 04:10 ET by Jack BauerWhy so dumb? Is it real, or just dumb insolence?
I will explain it as you seem to have a very limited ability at cognitive reasoning. Or you pretend to have for some odd purpose.
The headline "Acceptable progress" is an opinion based on a news item that 539,000 people lost their jobs in a month.
It is not meant to inform on the substance of a news item; instead it offers the writer's opinion that this is acceptable, and that a massive unemployment hike is "progress."
Some people may think this is a mendacious attempt to spin news by people who supposedly are not paid to do that; unlike those working in the Obama administration spin departments.
Now you may or may not agree with the sentiment. But you cannot deny that both headlines are not in any way, shape of form, an unbiased and neutral attempt to inform.
It is rather sad that I must "explain" this to you. But really, it's so brazen, I think you knew all along. It's just that Obama cults cannot help acting like tools. Nature of the beast.
Media and liberal stupidity
May 10, 2009 - 06:09 ET by TheHistorianThe real point was that the Politico was so over the top even THEY saw it. They still are so pro-Obama with the headline it makes me retch. Remember when Bush became President in 2000 he was accused of "Talking down the economy"? (http://transcripts.c...) Go back and look at the headlines in April, 2001. They were ALL about how bad the economy was, not any of the happy face garbage the in-the-tank media provides for Obama.
The real note should have been: "Unemployment worse than predicted" because actually 618,000 people lost jobs in the private sector. The government sector hired a large number of people which offset this. The economic news is still bad. Go buy gold. With Obama printing money, even the Bank of Mattress will lose you money.
"What experience and history teach is
this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."
G. W. F. Hegel
To those who are
May 10, 2009 - 03:11 ET by RR GOPTo those who are independently wealthy (though socially enlightened Marxists, of course), are going to college on mom and dad's dime, or living in mom and dad's basement typing Communist, Bush-hating, anti-'neo con' platitudes for other like-minded individuals on the 'net...this is indeed good news.
I can only hope that most of that half million voted Democrat. Don't want to see anyone lose their job, but, hey, if it has to happen please let it be those that made poor, infantile decisions at the voting booth.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).
The MSM has been talking us
May 10, 2009 - 10:19 ET by rbosqueThe MSM has been talking us into a recession for years when Bush was President. Now that Obama is sending us over a cliff we're all "OK".
This is nothing more than propaganda.