Posted on 01/21/2011 3:27:49 AM PST by markomalley
Don't believe the media. Obamacare is already adding to the unemployment rolls.
Commenting on the mainstream media of his day, Thomas Jefferson famously observed that "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Coming from the Sage of Monticello, whose credentials as an advocate of the free press were pretty darned solid, this is an arresting statement. And it is evident that the news business has changed little during the two centuries that have come and gone since he penned that uncivil passage. Even if one ignores the "reporting" perpetrated by the New York Times and other leading lights of journalism in the wake of the Tucson shooting, the continuing relevance of Jefferson's comment can be verified by perusing the stories appearing in most prominent publications about the GOP effort to repeal Obamacare .
The new House majority incurred the wrath of the media by refusing to change the name of the repeal bill and ignoring their calls to "wait a bit longer" before bringing it up for a vote. In fact, the Republicans had the temerity to give the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" pride of place in their vote schedule. This affront has inspired a spate of "news" stories claiming that the GOP has misled the public concerning Obamacare's effect on unemployment. The Republicans have, according to these articles, misrepresented a CBO report that suggests the new law will eliminate 650,000 jobs. A typical example is an AP "fact check" piece that includes this priceless quote from economist Paul Fronstin: "CBO isn't saying that there is job loss as much as they are saying that fewer people will be working."
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>economist Paul Fronstin: “CBO isn’t saying that there is job loss as much as they are saying that fewer people will be working.”
Priceless - needs to be a bumper sticker!
I don’t watch O’Reilly all that often but had him on last night in the background - he played a 2-3 min clip from an ABC ‘news’ story that was a shameless Obamacare commercial complete with terms like ‘Godsend’ and ‘life-saver’ and of course a family who supposedly would have faced certain death if not for the munificence of the Altruistic Alinskyite.
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