Close Your Eyes… Now Imagine George W. Bush With a Record 9.5% Unemployment Rate
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, August 22, 2010, 7:52 AM
If you ever wondered about the depth of corruption in the state-run media is, read this…
Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression and possibly is the worst jobs president in US History.
(Source: US Misery Index)
The democrats wanted to fundamentally change America. They did.
The US unemployment rate has not fallen below 10.8 percent in the last 12 13 months. This is unprecedented.
And then there’s this…
Jobless claims rose “unexpectedly” last week to the highest level in 9 months.
But you sure wouldn’t know Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression from the state-run media. They sure aren’t going to bring that up before the election!
Now compare the non-reporting on Obama’s failed policies to the reporting during the Bush years.
The Media Research Center reported on how the corrupt media discussed the 5.4 unemployment rate during the election in 2004.
When Bill Clinton ran for re-election in 1996, the unemployment rate was 5.2 percent, inflation was three percent and economic growth was 2.2 percent. Sound good? The economy is just as good, if not better, right now: the unemployment rate is 5.4 percent, inflation is 2.7 percent, and economists’ consensus forecast for economic growth this quarter is 3.7 percent.
Yet a new study by Dan Gainor, Director of the MRC’s Free Market Project, found that while the national media mainly cheered the Clinton economy in 1996 (85 percent positive), reporters have mostly jeered the Bush economy in 2004 (77 percent negative). Two 2004 stories were judged as neutral.
Even when the economy was producing 144,000 jobs a month and the unemployment rate was 5.4% in September 2004 the state-run media twisted the story into a negative.
The Media Research Center again reported:
The unemployment rate fell a tenth to 5.4 percent in August as 144,000 jobs were created during the month and the job creation number for July was revised upward by more than double, from 32,000 to 73,000 new jobs, but all the networks on Friday night managed to turn the Labor Department numbers, released that morning, into a negative.
CBS’s John Roberts ran a soundbite of President Bush touting the 5.4 percent rate, but then he undermined the good news: “What the President didn’t say was that the employment numbers in August again fell short of expectations, and it is now certain he will end his first term as the first President since the Great Depression to lose jobs on his watch.” Roberts grew even more dire as he stressed how “the situation is worse than it seems. While the President touts the results of his economic recovery plan, job creation hasn’t kept up with population growth.”
…Later, on CNN’s NewsNight, John King offered only a brief mention of the subject in a larger campaign story: “The President sought a silver lining in new economic data that Democrats suggest is a major Bush weakness, a modest addition of just 200,000 jobs the past two months.” Joe Johns highlighted a charge made by Kerry: “My friends, at the rate that this administration is creating jobs, you’re not going to have a net-plus one job in the state of Ohio until the year 2011!”
The corrupt media even reported a Clinton unemployment rate of 5.4% as good but declared a Bush unemployment rate of 5.0% as bad.
That is how the state-run media reported the unemployment rate when it was 5% during the Bush years. Could you even imagine if that number would have been close to 10% like it is today? They would have lynched Bush and Cheney on the White House lawn. And yet you don’t hear the democratic-media complex saying boo about Obama’s failed economic policies despite the fact that Obama himself took ownership of the economy over a year ago.
Now tell me the leftwing media is not corrupt!
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jorgen commented:
It wasn’t due to Clinton. It was due to the Republican Congress. Clinton tried his best to be a big spender.
Chippy commented:
Watching Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday. All I can say is “Wow!”. He exemplifies what the main stream media is all about. He is saying it’s all the right wings fault. That will be, and always will be, the liar czar, cheeleading left-wing war cry. They are totally insane!
Opus #6 commented:
The slow bleed of Democrats away from the left wing is for reasons such as this. Every now and then one will wake up (probably one with some math skills) and ask why 5% was bad under Bush but 10% unemployment is good under Obama.
The left wing media will have a smaller and smaller audience, lose advertising money, and eventually beg for a bail-out.
Media FAIL.
Faye commented:
And these are the same news channels that are screaming about NewsCorps million dollar donation to the GOP governors fund?
Opus, you are right. This administration will give bailouts to the state run media to keep them in business.
a former democrat commented:
WOW.
All I can say, I was one of those ignorant democrats who believed the MSM, since 2008, I do not trust a word they say.
Thank God for the Internet is all I can say. I never ever believed the MSM was liberally biased until 2008 when I saw them campaign for Obama.
I stand with conservatives now. And have realised ya know what I actually was always a conservative, and was lied as to what conservatism was about by the MSM.
Thank you to Gateway pundit for this post.
antilbr commented:
Everytime Obama closes his eyes he still believes the 9.5 employment rate is Bush’s fault along with everything else this POS president has screwed up….whats changed?
antilbr commented:
UNEMPLOYMENT rate….sorry my bad…..
AuntieMadder commented:
a former democrat
August 22nd, 2010 | 9:40 am | #6
The lamestream media certainly does lie about what conservatism is and what people on the right are like. With the latter, it’s actually projection on their part as everything they accuse the right of being (mean-spirited, racist, hateful, dishonest, etc.) are actually things that describe them very well.
AuntieMadder commented:
According to the lamestream media, everything with Oilbama is either “unexpected” or “unprecedented.” I’m really getting tired of those two words.