Anybody see the promo for tomorrow's HARDBALL?

[ewagner]

The promo asks the question: How will the Economic Recovery Affect Your Family?

What Economic recovery?

Pure unadulterated propaganda.......

I almost argued with AP last night about media "hatchet jobs and bias". I'm glad I didn't. This is the most blatant pandering I have ever witnessed.

[mmonk]

1. Its really getting bad.

Real information is hard to find. Anyone who says there is a liberal media bias hasn't been on this planet lately.

[janekat]

3. Maybe they'll say "bwah-ha-ha - It won't affect them at all!"

can't imagine they can be saying much of anything....

[Cocoa]

2. complete with footage

footage of hands with cash in them. The promo I saw said how will this boom affect Bush's reelection chances.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

6. Boom? What's booming?

I must have missed it.

I have several clients who have suffered greatly during the downturn, mostly as a result of being near the end of the supply chain in the tech industry. Every time things seem like they are getting better, it stagnates again. Work is being moved overseas in bits and pieces, and sometimes all at once. I talked to 2 different clients this week who say that things are "okay" and "maybe a little bit better" in their business, but no one has suggested anything even slightly resembling a boom. It would be welcome, I'm sure.

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. Objection, Your Honor -- compound question! n/t

[Hieronymus]

5. It's the old

have you stopped beating your wife thing.
This is disgusting but not terribly surprising, coming from our LIBERAL media.:crazy:

[ewagner]

7. My wife had to leave the room

twice tonight because I was screaming at the TV.

Once over the hardball promo and once at Asron Brown (who I used to like and trust). CNN Newsnight did a complete propaganda piece about a Doctor who enlisted in the Navy at 40 some odd years old and was shipped to Iraq as a surgeon. The story was about hsi homecoming and took a turn when they claimed that the Lt Commander was shocked by the news stories at home because they didn' match what he saw in Iraq. His version? They all love us. It's not dangerous over there. We're making great progress.

The final sequence from his homecoming celebration almost made me vomit. There was the local high school choir singing "God Bless America" and the good Lt Commander in dress blues, saluting, with the American flag behind him. :puke: :puke: :puke:

Herr Goebbels would have been proud! Masterfully done!

[Hieronymus]

8. Thank God

I missed that.
No doubt, the targeted group of lemmings were in tears over the staged and scripted event.:wtf:

[lapauvre]

9. Consider the ground zero on this

I mean, now the entire country is impoverished, except for those making $200,000 and over, now that we have lost about as many jobs as we can't lose, now that we have no social services to take care of the unemployed, now that we cut veteran's benefits even before we have the veterans from this "war," now that economic Darwinism has reached it's peak, there cannot be much else but up!

Pretty soon, I'm going to have to go to the news media and beg the Russians to send me back the case of toilet paper I sent to them years ago. I mean, keeeeeeeee riiiiiiist.

Economic Recovery my royal American!

When these people who are so ready to sacrifice anybody else's father, husband, brother, son and/or grandson, for a war to make a special few rich, while cutting back on veteran's health care, are running this show, I guess they think job openings as ditch diggers are uphill (pun intended), and Walmart rollbacks are sending us into glorious feelings of prosperity.

laughing my donkey off.

[papau]

10. 3rd/4th qtr GNP growth will be north of 4% if the predictions are correct

it will then die back to 3% level - but Bush is throwing the Gov accounts changes into this period so as to have talking points for first qtr 2004 - the theory is that impression is made in 1st qtr as to the status of the economy (Dem primary speeches will get some ink so GOP and media plan to offset with turnaround talk and downplaying of deficit as only a low percentage of toal economy - media seems on board the plan already) - and regardless of reality, the media can keep that impression going through the vote in Nov. 2004

Only problem will be job growth - but we are likely into small - meaning 50,000 to 125,000 - jobs growth - with the occassional 200,000 month - for the next 12 months - and the GOP hopes to sell that as an offset to 2.8 million jobs lost since Bush elected - indeed the goal is under 2 million jobs lost by June. The media will do the rest of the sales job.

[maggrwaggr]

11. Well if you're Chris Matthews and you have lots of $$ in the stock market

you probably feel that there's been a recovery since your portfolio has gained, on average 30% this year.

If you're one of the 25% of young men in Chicago who doesn't have a job, well, the stock market doesn't mean shit.

As history is written by the winners, our media is written by the rich.