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underpants

(182,861 posts)
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 06:14 PM Jun 2012

Fox News *cough* Fact Checks Obama and Romney's speeches

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/14/fact-check-where-obama-romney-missed-mark/

ROMNEY: "That stimulus didn't work. That stimulus didn't put more private-sector people to work."

THE FACTS: There is no doubt that Obama's more than $800 billion stimulus, enacted in February 2009, created both public-sector and private-sector jobs, even if not as many as its sponsors had hoped. The director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, recently estimated that the stimulus saved or created more than 3 million jobs. Princeton economist Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, estimated that the stimulus, together with the bank bailout started by President George W. Bush and continued by Obama, saved or created more than 10 million jobs.

OBAMA: "Our businesses have gone back to basics and created over 4 million jobs in the last 27 months."

THE FACTS: True as far as it goes, but the claim inflates Obama's record of private-sector job creation by ignoring huge losses early in his presidency.

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Fox News *cough* Fact Checks Obama and Romney's speeches (Original Post) underpants Jun 2012 OP
Sure it's slanted, but that's as close to balanced as Fox is ever likely to get. 11 Bravo Jun 2012 #1
I guess they need "fact checking" if they are going to be a "news" organization. gulliver Jun 2012 #2

gulliver

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2. I guess they need "fact checking" if they are going to be a "news" organization.
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 07:36 PM
Jun 2012

News organizations are doing fact checking now. So naturally Fox "News" has to do "fact checking." Their whole schtick is appearing to be real news, so they need to pretend to have everything real news organizations have.

They and their viewers are already becoming joke fodder in the popular culture, though. In fact, Fox News may already be such a joke that it turns people off of conservatism.

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