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To: longnshort who wrote (660627)	7/3/2012 11:21:02 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572676

Obamateurism of the Day Hot Air ^ \| 7-3-2012 \| Ed Morrissey Obama : ...If Congress does not get this done in a week, the average student with federal student loans will rack up an additional $1,000 in debt over the coming year. If Congress fails to act, more than 7 million students will suddenly be hit with the equivalent of a $1,000 tax hike. And that’s not something that you can afford right now. Politico actually did the math, and suggests that Obama might have engaged in a little, er, “hyperbole”: That was a bit of hyperbole. According to the Department of Education, if rates double, the borrower paying back the average Stafford loan would owe an additional $1,041 over the 12-year life of the loan. That would break down to $87 more annually, or about $7 more a month. Jeryl Bier is aghast at the reporting: “A bit of hyperbole”? A $7 per month interest increase morphs into a annual “$1,000 tax hike”, and that’s “a bit of hyperbole”? For crying out loud, it’s 25¢ per day! What’s next? Operation Fast and Furious is a “big fuss over a few guns”? Four years of one-trillion-dollar-plus deficits is “austerity”? With its recent fund raising appeals, this administration has already set its sights on rendering parody moot. It adds up to fiscal incompetence by Obama and his staff, as well as media bias by Politico. Had George Bush made this kind of math error in prepared remarks on the very topic of the speech, we never would have heard “a bit of hyperbole” as the explanation.

To: longnshort who wrote (660627)	7/3/2012 11:38:50 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572676

FactCheck.org is Sponsored by Decidedly LEFTIST Organization: ANNENBERG Public Policy Foundation Sunday, October 12, 2008 freerepublic.com The “Truthfulness” website called FactCheck.org is itself decidedly BIASED toward the LEFT as the discussion that follows points out. The ANNENBERG Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania is the organization behind the FactCheck.org website that is being consulted OFTEN by voters and media personalities alike to help them form opinions on the “truthfulness” of the claims being made by the McCain and Obama political ads as well as statements made on the Campaign Trail and in Presidential and Vice Presidential debates. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D. is the Director of the ANNENBERG Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania which is the organization BEHIND the FactCheck.org “truthfulness” website. Dr. Jamieson's newest book entitled “Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment” is a MAJOR HIT PIECE against the Conservative voices in the media on television, radio, and in print. View the book’s Table of Contents: annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org In Dr. Jamieson’s biography on the APPC website, she states that during the 2004 general election she regularly appeared on “NOW With Bill Moyers” and “The NewsHour,” and throughout the 2008 campaign is appearing regularly on “Bill Moyers Journal.” annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org In a 2003 interview with BuzzFlash.com, Bill Moyers said, "The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won." What’s the bottom line? FactCheck.org is a LEFT-BIASED organization that has sold itself as “Politically NEUTRAL” to America’s voters and media personnel. The fact is, the ANNENBERG Public Policy Center (APPC), the sponsoring agency behind FastCheck.org, is itself supported by the same foundation, the ANNENBERG FOUNDATION, that Bill Ayers secured the 49.2 million dollars from to create the Chicago ANNENBERG Challenge “philanthropic” organization which Barack Obama was the founding Chairman of the Board for and Ayers served as the grant writer of and co-Chair of for its two operating arms.