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Sad-Sack Economics Reporter Puts on Happy Face: A 'Vigorous Recovery' Has Arrived!

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:28:00 +0000

Chronically pessimistic Peter Goodman is suddenly Mr. Happy about the U.S. economic recovery: "At malls from New Jersey to California, shoppers are snapping up electronics and furniture, as fears of joblessness yield to exuberance over rising stock prices."

Clay Waters

Back on April 9, Times Watch warned that the paper may start pushing positive spin on the U.S. economy as the November elections draw closer and the prospects of the party in control of Congress and the presidency continues to look dire.

Jackie Calmes Pities Obama's Full Plate, Again Lauds His 'Stimulus' Package

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:54:00 +0000

The world keeps intruding as Mr. Obama tries to execute his promised pivot" on the economy. But one of those intrusions is Obama's own health care agenda.

Clay Waters

In the wake of the newest figures showing the unemployment rate still at 10 percent, reporter Jackie Calmes takes up for poor, overloaded President Obama and his economic "stimulus" package in her Saturday "news analysis" "Turning Focus to Jobs, if Outside Events Allow It."

Times Lead Story: Economists Say Stimulus Is Working, Dems Jump for Joy

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:35:00 +0000

Democrats love a Times' lead story suggesting most economists think the stimulus is working - and that we also need another one.

Clay Waters

Jackie Calmes and Michael Cooper's lead story on Saturday put a happy face on the stimulus package - but also hinted that another one might be necessary to put the economy back into the black: "New Consensus Views Stimulus As Worth Step - Talk Of A 2nd Infusion - Unemployment Figures and Increase in Debt Sway Economists."

Tax 'Cuts,' Tax Hikes, Media Back Obama Either Way

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:54:16 +0000

Julia A. Seymour

King Midas could turn everything he touched to gold. President Obama has a similar effect on news coverage of his policies.

Just look at the way broadcast journalists have covered (and covered for) Obama on the issue of taxes. It didn’t matter if he was cutting them with his stimulus bill or raising them in his proposed 2010 budget. The new president has a Midas touch.

Splitting the GOP, One Label-Heavy Front-Page Story at a Time

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:22:00 +0000

Today's story marks the second front-page story in six days on the ideological split between the Republican Congress and Republican governors over Obama's "stimulus package."

Clay Waters

Reporters Jackie Calmes and Robert Pear poured on the conservative labels in their Monday front-page story from the National Governors Association in Washington, "Disagreements About Stimulus Embroil G.O.P. - Some Support Obama While Others Dig In." It's another instance of the media trying to open a wedge between the GOP Congress and Republican governors over Obama's big spending law.

Maine Senators Who Helped Obama "No Ordinary Republicans"

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:56:00 +0000

The Times' timely fawning over the two Republican senators from Maine who are helping make Democrats' big-spending dreams come true.

Clay Waters

Congressional reporter Carl Hulse paid tribute to Maine's two moderate Senate Republicans, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, for giving President Barack Obama two crucial Yes votes on his $800-billion spending plan in Wednesday's "No Ordinary Republicans: Maine Senators Break With Party on Fiscal Plan." The plan appears on its way to passage as of Wednesday afternoon.

Fox Biz Block: Pork, 'Massive' Debt and More Reasons to Oppose Stimulus

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:03:35 +0000

Lauren O'Reilly

President Obama has resorted to draconian fear tactics in an attempt to shore up support for an enormous stimulus package, but many FOX commentators including Steve Forbes and Ben Stein criticized the bill and Obama’s scaremongering on Feb. 7.

Dear NY Times: Let's Not Create Another Bubble

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:42:13 +0000

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

Editor, The New York Times

229 West 43rd St.

New York, NY 10036

To the Editor:

'Bulls & Bears' Guest Can't Find Example of Stimulus Success

admin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:16:44 +0000

Lauren O'Reilly

If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, people might want to be wary of the economic stimulus package.

Four analysts were arguing on Fox News Channel’s “Bulls & Bears” that stimulus spending has never fixed a recession. But when one proponent of the hotly debated stimulus bill was pressured to refute this claim, she was unable to find an example.

Cramer and Matthews: Where's the Infrastructure Spending?

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:13:14 +0000

Jeff Poor

Between Election 2008 and the early moments of the Obama administration, it was assumed a new New Deal was coming complete with massive infrastructure projects. But, now the stimulus package is so full of other things even some of the most unlikely news outlets have noticed.

MSNBC's O'Donnell Begs Congressman to Denounce Rush Limbaugh

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:39:58 +0000

Jeff Poor

President Barack Obama wants congressional Republicans to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. MSNBC’s chief Washington correspondent Norah O’Donnell even asked one congressman to take it a step further.

Senator Warns White House Will 'Create Crisis' and 'Panic' to Push Stimulus

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:04:03 +0000

Jeff Poor

Is the new Obama administration taking cues from the Bush administration to get Congress to act? It certainly seemed that way to, South Carolina’s junior Republican senator, Jim DeMint.

DeMint, speaking Jan. 27 at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., explained the Obama administration will “create crisis and widespread panic” just like its predecessor in order to get Congress to act expeditiously.

Econ 101: That Old-Time Keynesian Theory

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:30:26 +0000

Gary Wolfram, Ph.D.

The solution to the current economic downturn as put forth by the majority in Congress and touted by most of the news media is for the federal government to enact a massive “stimulus package.”

FNC: Stimulus Plan is Keynesian 'Hogwash'

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:19:13 +0000

Lauren O'Reilly

Winston Churchill famously warned that history repeats itself unless people learn from past mistakes. As Congress debates a massive stimulus bill, critics of the stimulus plan warned about that very possibility on Fox News Channel’s “Bulls & Bears.”

Dear WTOP: Earmark Ban Won't Stop Pet Projects

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:03:11 +0000

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

News Editor, WTOP Radio

Washington, DC

Dear Sir or Madam:

You report Jan. 25 that "President Barack Obama's ban on earmarks in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill doesn't mean interest groups, lobbyists and lawmakers won't be able to funnel money to pet projects. They're just working around it."