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Is Obama Getting a Pass on the Bad Economy?
Double standard? Today's 9.4% unemployment rate "fueled hopes" that the economy was recovering, but 4.6% unemployment rates during the Bush administration were characterized as "job growth slowing to a crawl."
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Maggie's Farm — ... huge corporations to jump on board to exploit renewable energy subsidies and R&D grants from the federal government.  Meanwhile, politicians see a great opportunity to posture about “knowing something about science” and to appear concerned for the long term and about public health and environment.  And that, explained Heartland’s president and CEO, is what we’re up against in battling the bad-legislation-breeding hysteria. The O is getting a pass on the economy: Double ...

Comparison: Economic Reporting Under Bush, and Under Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Of course, with President Obama now in the White House, the media’s economic coverage is the mirror opposite. As the unemployment rate skyrockets and hundreds of thousands of jobs are lost every month, the bad economic news is spun by Obama’s friends in the media: “Negative economic indicator Y was released today, but it’s not nearly bad as we’d expected, and besides, ...

Comparison: Economic Reporting Under Bush, and Under Obama
Stop The ACLU — ... turned around big-time, with the creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs and whopping GDP growth of 7.5% in the third quarter. Yet month after month, the national media downplayed the good economic news with the dreaded “but,” as in “Positive economic indicator X was released today, but the economy is still in the toilet…” (Oh, by the way… George W. Bush was President back then.) Of course, with President Obama now in the White House, the media’s economic coverage is the mirror opposite . As the unemployment rate skyrockets and hundreds of thousands of jobs are lost ...

Comparison: Economic Reporting Under Bush, and Under Obama
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Of course, with President Obama now in the White House, the media’s economic coverage is the mirror opposite. As the unemployment rate skyrockets and hundreds of thousands of jobs are lost every month, the bad economic news is spun by Obama’s friends in the media: “Negative economic indicator Y was released today, but it’s not nearly bad as we’d expected, and besides, ...

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