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Biggest Drop In U.S. Retail Sales In October On Record
The Moderate Voice —
... Now — taking that logic argument to a new extreme – Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity blamed a day when stocks plummeted on “the Obama recession,” even though Obama has not been in office one second yet. ...
uggabugga — The "Obama Recession" Media Matters: (emp add) On the November 11 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Sean Hannity again suggested that President-elect Barack Obama is to blame for the decline in the stock market and said of Wall Street's performance: "Wall Street keeps sinking. Could it be the Obama recession: The fear that taxes are gonna go up, forcing people to pull out of the market?" Hannity is not alone among conservatives in the media in referring to an "Obama recession" in purported explanation for the ...
Public Not Buying Media Attempts To Blame Obama For Recession: Poll
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... leading your White House press corps to mutter and cluck over the increasing pettiness of such recitations. There was also that really fun period where the daily downward motion of the Dow was blamed by more and more people on the White House -- until, of course, the Dow trended upwards for a number of days. Then you didn't hear those theories about how one man could alter the market's fortunes so much anymore.
Media Matters For America, who documented many of these instances themselves, released a statement on the Post/ABC Poll: ...
Public Not Buying Media Attempts To Blame Obama For Recession: Poll
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... leading your White House press corps to mutter and cluck over the increasing pettiness of such recitations. There was also that really fun period where the daily downward motion of the Dow was blamed by more and more people on the White House -- until, of course, the Dow trended upwards for a number of days. Then you didn't hear those theories about how one man could alter the market's fortunes so much anymore.
Media Matters For America, who documented many of these instances themselves, released a statement on the Post/ABC Poll: ...
US Deaths in Iraq at All-Time Low
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... And just FYI: I'll be the first to admit that giving credit to Obama for this -- something that so clearly has its origins before his ascent to office -- would be absurd. You won't find any lefty bloggers praising Obama for this development. Which is why the Right's attempts to pin the recession on Barack Obama ("the Obama recession") is so despicable and says so much. ...
Royal Mistake
The Nation: Top Stories —
... Anyway, these pseudostories--naked memes, you might call them--are more than just Republican talking points taken up by the media. What is fascinating about them is that their fakiness is so Emperor-wears-no-clothes-obvious. They're sprinkled around not so much to rile the masses up over a particular make-believe item, but to help keep the GOP base in a chronic, make-believe-ready state, one where they're unlikely to question any of the larger political lies. Like, that this is " the Obama recession ." But this time it's not working. Polls indicate that by ...
