"The Press Want To ‘Convince Everyone That The Economy Is In Recession’ To Hurt McCain"»

:crazy: With surrogates like these...

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/09/mccain-hassett-recession/

McCain Adviser: The Press Want To ‘Convince Everyone That The Economy Is In Recession’ To Hurt McCain»


In his Bloomberg column today, Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute charges that the news media is guilty of a “politically motivated pessimism” when it pushes “the idea that the U.S. is in a terrible recession.” Hassett, who is an economic adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), argues that the “Democratic-leaning press” may be trying to “influence the election” against McCain:

The bias has an easy explanation. Yale University economist Ray Fair has shown that a weak economy hurts the incumbent party. If a Democratic-leaning press can convince everyone that the economy is in recession, then it can influence the election.

Our analysis indicates that the treatment of the economy would be much different if there were a Democrat in the White House today.

To support his argument, Hassett cites a “highly flawed” study he conducted with John Lott that claimed to show that newspapers “give more positive news coverage to the same economic news when Democrats are in the Presidency than for Republicans.”

But he also neglects to mention that the candidate who he claims would be hurt by the purported “bias” hasn’t been shy about describing the economy as in a recession. In fact, on April 14, when McCain was asked directly, “Are we in a recession?” he responded, “I certainly think so.”

Watch it at link~

McCain’s comments to the Associated Press in April weren’t an isolated incident or a mere slip of the tongue. On March 8, he told reporters that it was “very likely” that America was “probably, quote, ‘in a recession.’”

that we're all friggin GOING BROKE...ASSHOLES

that didn't report the truth about why we were invading Iraq?

The same left-wing media that's given Fuckface a free ride for the past eight years?

Bite me, AEI guy.

...otherwise they would have seen the prices at the pump.

In 1929, it was the stock marker. In 2009, it's going to be the price of oil per barrel--mark my words.

:wow: The stupidity of that statement is impressive on soooooo many levels!

of this country and not just the upper crust or as boosh calls them 'his base'...and he thinks HIS opinion piece in a financial press aimed at the 'elite' will give mcsame headway in the REAL WORLD?

on edit: it's the old...truth has a liberal bias...

Bwaa bwaaaaaaa bwaaaaaaaaahhhh!

today when I found cat food up 5 cents a can since Friday, milk up 40 cents and a lousy, little bunch of scallions 89 cents. Damn that liberal media for increasing my food budget by $50 a week.

How can that be when we knew the economy was in the crapper long before we knew McSame was going to be the nominee. But I guess when your desperate, throw some crap against the wall and see if it sticks.

.... those dumb son-of-a-bitch Republicans spout this nonsense.

These folks are still living the Bush dream, message means everything, reality means nothing.

While these idiots were concocting their latest lies, Joe Six Pack noticed that the REALITY is WE ARE IN A RECESSION.

Forget the cooked numbers, it is HERE, and everyone with two brain cells knows it.

And when these douchebags espouse these ridiculous talking points, they prove to 75% of the country that they are nothing but a bunch of clueless liars.

for the bastards they worship so highly right now. I'm too old, but I'd like to see these pubs' children picking cotton, too. Their ignorance, their idiotic knee-jerk talking points, their rabid religion, all have led us to the precipice. It's time for them to PAY.

looks like somebody tore off his eyebrows and then a blind guy stitched them back on with a set of knitting needles:




author of one of the most dishonest studies ever unmasked.

AND the best part:

from Wiki....

In early 2003, some critics suggested that Lott had created and used "Mary Rosh" as a fake persona to defend his own works on Usenet and elsewhere. After investigative work by blogger Julian Sanchez, Lott admitted to use of the Rosh persona, but insists that he had not done anything academically unusual, let alone unprofessional.<28>

Lott's opponents, however, maintain that several uses of his nom de plume transgressed normal practice, arguing that he praised himself while posing as one of his former students,<29><30> and that "Rosh" was used to post a favorable review of More Guns, Less Crime on Amazon.com. Lott has claimed that the "Rosh" review was written by his son and wife.<30>