Every time I start thinking the press may finally be doing its job, I run across another example of media laziness and gullibility.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For instance, the record shattering August U.S. trade deficit<\/a> received minimal coverage, almost as if it were a non-event.<\/p>\n Yet\u00a0many “journalists” seemed all too eager to report, unchallenged, Bush’s “halving the budget deficit” claim,<\/a> though this assertion is\u00a0patently false.<\/a><\/p>\n But perhaps I’m not being fair.\u00a0Cause let’s face it,\u00a0 Bush style accounting could improve just about anybody’s budget.\u00a0Think how rosy yours would look if, with the flick of a black pen, you moved major expenses (housing? energy?) off budget.<\/p>\n And now it’s time for a limerick duo:<\/p>\n Trading On Fiction The trade gap is higher than ever. Budget Reality Gap The deficit’s halved, claims George Dub. For your reading (and viewing) pleasure: Every time I start thinking the press may finally be doing its job, I run across another example of media laziness and gullibility.\u00a0\u00a0 For instance, the record shattering August U.S. trade deficit received minimal coverage, almost as if it were a non-event. Yet\u00a0many “journalists” seemed all too eager to report, unchallenged, Bush’s “halving the budget […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,44,21,38,8,20,26,6,7,3,9,45,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nWill Republicans fix it? No, never!
\nYet the GOP yells:
\n“The economy’s swell.”
\nDon’t forget to click “Dem” with that lever.<\/p>\n
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nBut it’s gone way, way up. There’s the rub.
\nYet the press prints and buys
\nGeorgie Dubya’s big lies.
\nOnce again, hard reality’s scrubbed.<\/p>\n
\n* Norm at OneGood Move brings us the always hilarious Lewis Black.<\/a>
\n* Skippy brings us a Kerry cahones video.<\/a>\u00a0(Now he grows a pair?)
\n* From Kevin Hayden, GOP\u2019s Top Bloggers Abandon Ship, While Remaining in Denial.<\/a>
\n* From Don Davis, Top Ten Things The Bushies Are Saying Behind The Evangelicals’ Backs.<\/a>
\n* From The Talking Dog, an interview with Dr. Steven Miles, medical professor at the U. of Minnesota, and author of “Oath Betrayed” discussing medical complicity in torture, prisoner abuse, et al, in the war on terror.<\/a>
\n[tags]Deficit Spending, Budget Deficit, Trade Deficit, Trade Gap, Press Humor, Gullible Journalists, Budget Lies, Off Budget Items[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"