And So It Begins

I honed my political teeth in the early nineties.  Very distinctive in my memory is the Democrat claim that Republicans wanted to starve school children by cutting the school lunch program.  Never mind that the program was actually going to increase in the coming year and that the "cut" was in the rate of growth not an actual cut (see earlier post).  All it took was for the Democrats to make the claim and every reporter in the world ran to the nearest Republican, shoved a microphone in his face and yelled "Why do you want to starve school children?!!"

I don't know what's worse, believing without question every single thing a Democrat says negative about a Republican or completely ignoring (or at least as long as possible) every glaring shortcoming of an elected Democrat.  Fill in the blank here on any one of Clinton's many scandals and how the media had to be drug to them kicking and screaming.

So jump to today.

Romney is now the Republican nominee for President.  Obama has artificially created, thru George Stephanopolis, this supposed "war on women" being waged by Republicans.  It's all pure, unadulterated hogwash.  So, to defend himself, Romney quotes the statistic that since Obama took office 92% of all job losses have been women.

Now, I looked it up.  That statement is 100% accurate.  From the day Obama took office until today 92% of jobs lost belonged to women.  Even the stories I'll link below admit that.  BUT, they then start going outside of what Romney said to defend Obama.  They start talking about context and timeline and when job loss really started and non-farm jobs and so forth and so on.

Funny.  Where does all of this analytical firepower come from when, by contrast, anything Obama says is just written down and accepted as if it were chiseled with fire onto two stone tablets?

The media will do any and everything they can to prop this failed President up.  It's so glaringly obvious it churns my stomach.  And the uninformed masses that just take what the one-sided media spoon feeds them scare me to death.

I'm sure they will defend Romney and the Republicans the next time Obama says they want to poison the air and water and kill more people.  Yeah, right.

It's going to be a long seven months.

MSNBC: "That is accurate, according to BLS. But Brian Davidson, an economist at BLS, told First Read: “The math they use is correct; the terminology is completely wrong.”

CNN: "An analysis of federal labor statistics shows that the claim is technically true but is missing important context."