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To: i-node who wrote (677791)	10/7/2012 5:34:35 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1573433

Dems Out Andrea Mitchell as Partisan Jonathan S. Tobin \| @tobincommentary 10.07.2012 - 9:00 AM We’ve often noted in this space the enormous advantage President Obama derives from having the mainstream media firmly in his pocket. But it appears the geniuses running his campaign don’t understand that the best way to exploit this edge is not to make it so obvious as to remove any doubt that the press has gone in the tank. That was exactly what they did when they used a clip of NBC’s Andrea Mitchell spouting Obama talking points on the air in a new web ad. NBC has reacted to this breach of the informal rules of engagement between liberal journos and the Obami with high dudgeon and has asked the Democrats to take the ad down. Much as they did when the president’s re-election campaign used a clip of Tom Brokaw, the network says that since they haven’t granted permission for the use of the material it ought not to be aired in the context of a partisan ad. But this complaint merely highlights the fact that people like Mitchell often carry the water for the president in segments that are labeled straight news when they are nothing more than partisan spin. Mitchell has come under increasing fire from media critics for conducting a series of hit and run attacks on Mitt Romney, exposed in a series of encounters on MSNBC with GOP surrogate John Sununu in which her partisanship is not debatable. In the clip used by the Obama campaign, Mitchell quotes a liberal group’s claim that Romney’s tax plan will cost $4.8 trillion and will therefore raise taxes on the middle class, a charge that other, more credible analysts, have debunked. This is a point on which even liberal fact checkers have concluded that the Democrats’ pants are on fire, but Mitchell loyally spouted the allegation on the air as if it were objective fact. The scandal here is not, as NBC seems to be saying, that the Democrats are stealing their material without permission, but that the Democrats shouldn’t have been charged for the air time taken up by Mitchell’s flacking for Obama in the first place. Mitchell is hardly the only partisan hack masquerading as a fair-minded journalist on one of the networks and perhaps isn’t even the worst (CNN’s Soledad O’Brien certainly gives her a run for her money in this category). But the Obama ad removes even the flimsy veil of false objectivity from her conduct. But what is interesting is how obtuse the Obama campaign is about using Mitchell. Making her the star of an Obama ad just reinforces the point Sununu and others have made over and over again about her bias. But while the ad is paid for by the Democrats, the in-kind

To: i-node who wrote (677791)

10/7/2012 6:43:56 PM

From: J_F_Shepard

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the only thing that is sudden is the DOUBLING in the size of our deficits which began the day this fool took office.

>> Obama debt increased 6 T but that includes 1.7T for the stimulus to recover from the Bush depression...

And we see how well it has worked. He should have listened to people who knew WTF they were talking about. Where there is a legitimate argument about whether stimulus ever works, we know that when it is being managed by incompetent cronies it doesn't.

Stimulus failed? Record profits for corps, Stock market all time high, auto industry saved, millions of jobs saved and 3.+ million new jobs created...

>> Debt under Obama has increased 41.4% or 14.6% without the stimulus... Bush debt increased 89 % in 8 years.

This is a cop out and if you were a competent engineer you'd know it. These are nothing more than statistical lies. The ONLY reason for expressing these as percentages is to hide the extent of the increases.

As a hot shot accountant you think the only way to compare is by absolute values???/ Don't accountants normalize data? Is Romney's 14 % tax rate a lie??????

>> So what are you so proud of?

It isn't about pride. It is about fiscal responsibility. Your guy doubled the deficit the day he took office and kept it doubled for four consecutive years.

Doubled from when to when.....Bush left a 10.7 T deficit...we are at 15.8 T now!!