Posted on 07/29/2022 12:07:32 AM PDT by NetAddicted
Happy Recession Day, everybody!
Over the past several days, we’ve watched with great interest to see just how the media would find a way to downplay our ongoing economic downturn under President Joe Biden. We’ve seen plenty of hackery already, but we new that the real spectacle wouldn’t get underway until the numbers officially came out. Well, the numbers officially came out, and the GDP shrank by 0.9% in the second quarter. That’s a recession, folks.
Earlier this week, Erick Erickson made an observation about the media’s treatment of the Biden administration’s shameless attempts to redefine “recession”:
We're about to see just how much the media is over Biden. If they go along with the Biden Administration's redefinition of what a recession is after four decades of holding it as 2 quarters of negative growth, the press is dead, and only the propagandists remain.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 25, 2022
Now that we’re here, in this moment, it would appear that the press is, for all intents and purposes, dead.
Check out the AP’s reporting — if you can even call it that — on the GDP shrinkage:
BREAKING: The U.S. economy shrank for a second straight quarter, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace and raising fears that the nation may be approaching a recession. https://t.co/dYUTWSjd80
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 28, 2022
“Raising fears that the nation may be approaching a recession.” The nation isn’t maybe approaching a recession; the nation is neck-deep in one.
Not to be outdone, here’s Bloomberg, an outlet that ostensibly covers business news:
BREAKING: The US economy shrinks for a second quarter, raising the odds of a recession https://t.co/EPVD7zKdSG
— Bloomberg (@business) July 28, 2022
Where even are we right now? Is this real life?
Two successive quarters of declining GDP is the definition of a recession. Therefore the odds of a recession are 100%.
— Roger Entner (@RogerEntner) July 28, 2022
To 100%?
— Wittorical (@Wittorical) July 28, 2022
“May be approaching”
Just incredible propaganda here https://t.co/z3L1C7xc1C
— (•_•) (@AsTheWorldBurnz) July 28, 2022
It is in recession, you gaslighting clowns. https://t.co/kVTjyqwBVt
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 28, 2022
https://t.co/WkGm5fnkYU pic.twitter.com/aYn2CkdK6m
— bartleby (@ElderBartleby) July 28, 2022
Is there any doubt that if Donald Trump were president instead of Joe Biden, the media would’ve proclaimed that we’ve been in a recession since 2016? OK, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. But at the very least, they’d’ve been screaming “WE’RE IN A RECESSION” for the past eight months. And you know what? If we were seeing these numbers under President Donald Trump, they’d be right to be talking about a recession. But we’re seeing these numbers under President Joe Biden, and the media just can’t bring themselves to be intellectually honest about the economy.
“Raising fears”, “may be approaching”. I’m sure that we’d have exactly the same spin if Republican was in the WH. https://t.co/mQVoHOlM7R
— Boris Ryvkin (@BRyvkin) July 28, 2022
The kindness displayed here when a Democrat is President is almost surreal. https://t.co/adRpMNA95O
— IncognegroNeville 🇯🇲🇺🇸 (@FormerlyCBM) July 28, 2022
It really is. This is the sort of thing that used to just be something we’d joke about. But it’s actually real. They’re actually doing it.
"May be approaching." The media's continued willingness to beclown itself is really remarkable.https://t.co/ouUf4rllVV
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) July 28, 2022
They can’t just say it.
The institution we rely upon to at least try to play it straight have given up. They used to at least pretend not to be wholly owned subsidiaries of the Democrat party. They don’t care if you know it now. https://t.co/ZRqW1EOIiM
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) July 28, 2022
For your sake I hope the WH is at least paying you for all of this insipid propaganda
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 28, 2022
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Not really.
The license standard is to broadcast “In the public interest”
A nebulous standard that can mean just about whatever you want it to mean.
Back in 2007, Bush’s last year, the left considered the 2 quarter rule etched in stone.
wikipedo hurriedly changed their definition of “recession” too
Ha! When we are in a depression the useful idiots at the media will still be saying “we may be approaching a recession”
I don’t know how we’re going to fix this but if we don’t figure it out soon we will be in full out communism.
Another:
She isn’t pregnant-—she is on the wait list for an abortion.
IIRC, officials have banned Natural Gas usage in San Fran.
Lots of restaurants there.
One article said 92% would be out of business—cannot cook on electric.
Soviet Style journalism indeed I don’t know if anyone recorded any of the 60’s and 70’s Russia short wave programs but it’s spot on.
Their programs didn’t take long to hook the slow thinkers well gee gosh wonder how the hippy movement started.
One of their leaders stated we will bury you and never fire a shot.
I don’t like what I am seeing either.
I’m referencing the station as a unit, not individuals.
And yes, the unit is providing a service at no charge to the party:
That may be true.
I’m may be slow here, but I didn’t quite get that.
Unless there is a Republican in office at the time.
Or if a Republican takes office after a Democrat takes us in to a depression, the quarter after the Republican takes office the depression will start.
And it will be the Republican’s fault for not spending enough money in his first quarter even though he had no control over the budget in his first quarter in office.
But Gutfeld! is beating every other late night talk show’s ratings. My guess is they’re also watching The Five and Jesse Watters Primetime, plus maybe Tucker Carlson. They’re all getting conservative viewpoints on Biden’s destruction of USA economy. And they’re all potential voters. Jesse had a Hispanic say to him, “Este es mi mundo.” Future Republicans.
For the Great Reset.
Yeah
OY VEY! Good thing nobody considers Wikipedia authoritative.
Did you type wikipedo for a reason?
It’s my new name for them considering they’re aligned with the biden boys, joe and hunter and the rest of dems seem to be the same.
There are some good guys still.
Tom Bevan
@TomBevanRCP
“May be approaching.” The media's continued willingness to beclown itself is really remarkable.
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