Rush Rips AP's Rugaber for 'Intentionally Misleading' in Report on Unemployment Claims
Earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted the press's ridiculously forgiving coverage of today's reported increase in unemployment claims while concentrating primarily on RTT News's assertion that the unemployment rate should continue to come down as long as weekly claims stay below 400,000. Three years ago, Christopher Rugaber's threshold at the Associated Press, also known to yours truly as the Administration's Press, was 325,000. He has since raised it (including in today's report) to 375,000.
This afternoon, Rush Limbaugh expanded on wire service's knee-jerk defense of mediocre-to-bad economic news, taking particular umbrage at the thoroughly misleading headline at Rugaber's report, as well as his first paragraph, which I will relay first before posting part of Rush's reaction:
First, from AP:
US unemployment applications hover near low levels Slightly more people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week. But the overall level stayed low enough to suggest the job market is strengthening.
Part of Rush's reaction:
AP Spins for Regime
... After reading this, I'm wondering: Why doesn't the Associated Press have to register with the Federal Election Commission as an Obama super PAC? Because that's what they are. The AP, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, they're all part of the Obama super PAC. They give advertising away to Obama. They give it away. It's free media. He doesn't have to buy anything from these networks or these publications.
... This is an out-and-out lie again. It's intentionally misleading, the headline and the lead paragraph. Tell me, in what significant way are they any different from the rest of ... the Obama reelection campaign? ... You have 8,000 new applicants over last week, "slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits but the overall level stayed low enough to suggest the job market's strengthening." Headline: "US Unemployment Applications Hover Near Low Levels." This is shameless. Absolutely shameless.
... Every day on this program for 23-plus years, there's example after example after example of not just media bias, but journalistic malpractice: an entire industry lying and misleading and misrepresenting things to the American people. They hide behind the First Amendment and the freedom of the press, they hide behind the cloak of objectivity, but they're not objective. They are advocates. They are surrogates. They are part of the agenda. They advance it, and it is the primary reason that so many things in this country are out of whack, because one political party gets a pass. One segment of the American population gets a total pass.
And this AP unemployment story is just the latest in countless daily, multiple-times-a-day examples of the irresponsibility that exists in what is called the mainstream media in this country.
It would be pretty hard to top that truth-filled rant. So I won't try, except to also note, as Zero Hedge originally observed, that "this is the first time we have seen three consecutive weeks of rises since August 2010." Of course, Rugaber didn't tell readers that either.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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as they say
Submitted by American.Patriot on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 8:22pm.
"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention"
Although this AP report is typical media bias, with so many in the tank for the #1 domestic enemy (Obama), it is difficult to have an intelligent conversation with any libtard.
I was thinking about the oath of office that our elected officials take upon entering the office. "You swear to uphold the Constitution against foreign and DOMESTIC enemies..."
In Obama's case, he is enemy #1
Speaking of Rush
Submitted by GregE on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 9:41pm.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/limbaugh-drops-company-that-suspended-ad...
⇒ Sleep Train
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 10:02pm.
Tough when the company is sucking up to the Occupy Movement and finds out they aren't the middle-aged conservatives more inclined to buy the beds.
Did they consider for a second a woman who begs for contraceptives from strangers might seem to be, well, sort of "Flight Attendant-ish" in a Letterman sort of way.
I don't think they did
Submitted by Bliggie on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 10:30pm.
Consider that Cool Arrow, the only thing the LSM considered was that it was Rush Lumbaugh (evil conservative) and the woman was a liberal(lazy, government dependent). Now if Bill maher had said the exact same thing about a conservative woman, that would be okay.
Check this out!
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 12:25am.
On Yahoo's front page.....
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/limbaugh-ashleymadison-com-not-accep...
And right on schedule, a Washington Post columnist reported it WRONG.....
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Limbaugh lashed out at Alexandra Petri, a Washington Post columnist, who wrote that Limbaugh's show had picked up AshleyMadison.com, proving that the show "targets jerks."
"It is an out-and-out lie," Limbaugh said of the report. "Nothing could be further from the truth."
The propaganda media is the
Submitted by John21 on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 8:44am.
The propaganda media is the Public Relations department of the DNC.
Why do you continue to think that you will recieve any truthful information from the MSM? The simplist way of getting though the media reports (without gagging or laughing) is to understand that nothing that they are reporting has anything to do with reality, this will allow you to get to the weather and sports without anger issues.
The media became the propaganda media about the same time as we lost reporters in this country and they became journalist. Journalist do not provide factual reports only their interpretation of facts, they do not even feel the need to coverup their limited understanding and bias. Reporters are like the old TV show "just the facts maam", days when media had creditability.
The name for the AP
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:23am.
Mr. Blumer, the name you came up for the AP is nothing short of brilliant, it fits them perfectly.
AP=Administration's Press. Love it!
And we might as well call MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and others like them as part of that because they pretty much repeat each other.
-Jon