Posted on 05/08/2010 1:29:06 PM PDT by moneyrunner
U.S. News & World Report is a leading contender for the bootlicker of the week award in the MFM.
It seems that the U.S. News & World Report is in some serious competition with the Associated Press over who can put the most positive spin on April's increase in unemployment. So the unemployment figure rose last month from 9.7% to 9.9%? Great news according to Rick Newman in his U.S. News blog titled, "Why a Rising Unemployment Rate is Good News." And why is it good news? Newman explains...sort of:
(Excerpt) Read more at moneyrunner.blogspot.com ...
The USSA needs its Pravdas.
The basic idea behind Newspeak is to remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple dichotomies (pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness, goodthink and crimethink) which reinforce the total dominance of the State.
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Are you being sarcastic, comrade?
Great news, now I can tell my unemployed friends how wonderful everything is and golly gee its all because the great and magnificent BO...yeah!
It is good news because it means the Dems are nearing the end of their rope.
The rise in the un-employment rate is very, very good because those who are un-employed, and those who were un-employed before, were evil people living off the evil Bush economy, filled with evil, greedy people.
The unemployment rate, now at more than nine percent, made up of mostly evil, racist, white people, is an indication that social justice is taking place and that a
re-allocation of wealth is in the process of bringing a worker’s paradise to the earth, centered here in the
United States.
See? (Saw?)
/s/
IMHO
How Caligulan can ya get?
STay Tuned..
Great cartoon - thanks for posting ...
For the American Spin Machine AKA Press. All News relating to their Hero is good.
And yes that is really how it went.
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