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Pro-Obama media always shocked by bad economic news
Washington Examiner ^ | 5-29-11 | Michael Barone

Posted on 05/29/2011 5:41:18 AM PDT by radioone

Unexpectedly!

As megablogger Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, has noted with amusement, the word "unexpectedly" or variants thereon keep cropping up in mainstream media stories about the economy.

"New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed," reported CNBC.com May 25.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: barone; media; obama
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1 posted on 05/29/2011 5:41:23 AM PDT by radioone
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To: radioone
OBAMAPBUCKET
2 posted on 05/29/2011 5:43:26 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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To: radioone

Twenty-three million unemployed and under employed.I wonder
how they’ll vote?


3 posted on 05/29/2011 5:50:04 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: radioone


4 posted on 05/29/2011 5:50:35 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: radioone

The media believes anything/everything this administration tells them....even when their eyes & the facts tell them otherwise. Sadly, I know far too many people who also believe the lies. They believe that gas prices will come back down; that there is a recovery and; that Arab spring equates to movements toward democracy.

All part of the strong delusion....


5 posted on 05/29/2011 5:56:06 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Joe Brower

Well done!


6 posted on 05/29/2011 5:57:36 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: radioone

Ironic, good economy under Pres. Bush, unemployment around 5%, $2.50/gal. gas and all we heard was ‘worst economy since the Depression’

O’Bama’s economy at 9% ( realistically over 12%) unemployment, empty houses everywhere, gas hovering around $4/gal., and all we hear is ‘ improving economy, on the rebound’.

The MSM snakes at work.


7 posted on 05/29/2011 6:16:19 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Vinnie

And there still blaming Bush.


8 posted on 05/29/2011 6:21:52 AM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: radioone
Shenard's reply to the article is the flaming elephant in the newsroom that 'journalists' expectedly ignore:

"BRICK WALL COMING "UNEXPECTEDLY" SOON!"

"I work in the financial markets. Wall Street is so drunk on bailouts, stimulus, and Fed quantitative easing that they have no perception of risk. Last week, when BOTH unemployment claims rose and GDP (economic) growth were revised "unexpectedly" lower to a weak 1.8%, Wall Street ignored both, threw a Pollyanna Party, and rose 70 points. Who cares about bad news when Obama and the Fed are borrowing and pumping $6 billion a day into the stock market? After all, we have PRINTED prosperity now! But it is all a mirage, and the time is rapidly approaching when that mirage will evaporate into thin air!"

"Both fiscal and monetary easy money have created little growth, but staggering debt. We're growing our debt at 11.5% per year, and our economy is barely limping along at paltry growth of just 1.8% per year as of two weeks ago! Our debt is growing more than 6 times faster than our economy! We're a bug looking for a windshield!"

"The day is rapidly approaching (experts are saying 2 years, maybe 3 TOPS) when the debt will overwhelm us, both the bond and stock markets will crash, and all entitlements will come to an abrupt and "unexpected" end. There is coming what David Stockman recently said will be a "vicious selloff" in the bond markets, and this time, the government will NOT be able to fix things. US Government debt is now the Mother of all Bubbles, and everyone is gleefully praying for a miracle while playing a game of musical chairs in which they all expect to be the first one to find a seat when the music stops. When that day happens, it's going to be everyone running for the exit in a crowded theater when someone yells "fire", and there really IS one! There will be blood on both Wall Street and Main Street!"

"The Obama Administration and the complicit mainstream media are hoping that they can get Obama reelected before we hit the brick wall and reality becomes "unexpectedly" undeniable! It's a race against time and reality. We can not defy the laws of sound economics forever!"

"It is going to be very ugly when that day inevitably comes, and it isn't going to be several decades or years away. It's going to happen "unexpectedly" soon!"

9 posted on 05/29/2011 6:22:38 AM PDT by GBA
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“They believe that gas prices will come back down;”

When they go back up... and they will... there is nothing going on to lower them and everything that is being done will ensure higher energy prices in all energy sectors... people will become even more angry because the lies will be exposed again and again.

“that there is a recovery”

That lie is coming unraveled with every new jobs report and every new unexpectedly worse economic performance announced. You cannot tell a person who has no job and has a family that is hungry... owes everyone... has lost their home or car... and have no prospects for improvement... that Unicorns are spewing Skittles.

“that Arab spring equates to movements toward democracy.”

Let's see... obama has declared war on Israel (which is what he has actually done)... we read every day about scores being killed in Syria... palis blowing up rockets and bombs and it will increase now that Egypt has given iran a way to funnel more weaponry into the Israel... bombs killing pakis by the hundreds... muslim regimes in Africa murdering on the wholesale level and we read that obamao is dismantling our Military and considering cutting the pay of front line Troops as well as that of all Military personnel.

Be strong of heart and have faith... the prince of lies is backing obama and the dims... islam worships him under another name... GOD is not pleased and we have been blessed with the book that tells us how this will all eventually end.

GOD gave us free will... and we must use that Free Will to fight evil and never give up. So never give up and have faith... you are not alone... we are 10’s of millions in this Nation and billions upon billions world wide... and our side is ordained and destined to win. Praise GOD and may GOD bless America... and know that obama and the dims and their allies are NOT America. The Federal government is not America... but WE THE PEOPLE are.

LLS

10 posted on 05/29/2011 6:30:08 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("If you lie hard enough and sell your soul... you can scam your way to the top" barack obama)
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Amen!

Well written and highly inspirational.

Leni

11 posted on 05/29/2011 6:45:36 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Bring Back the MISERY INDEX! Obama's INDEX! Include Food & Energy in a TRUTHFUL INDEX!)
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To: Dr. Ursus
How will they vote? Why Democrat of course. Most Americans are completely brain dead and will keep on voting for the promise of free money.
At the present we only have two choices, Republican & Democrat and the difference between those two choices is very slim. In the seven months since the election we have learned that the Republican Leadership are complete empty suits. WE replaced over 60 Democrats with Republicans and what did we get? With the exception of a fairly small minority, the same old, same old.
2012 just might be the time to really start The TeaParty and allow the Republicans and Democrats to go ahead and merge.
12 posted on 05/29/2011 7:04:27 AM PDT by Tupelo
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To: LibLieSlayer
GOD gave us free will... and we must use that Free Will to fight evil and never give up.

Sadly, about half the population has abrogated that gift/responsibility to the government.

13 posted on 05/29/2011 7:08:33 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: who knows what evil?; dead
"Well done!"

All due credit goes to FReeper 'dead'.

14 posted on 05/29/2011 7:20:06 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Vinnie

True... about half the Nation are lazy marxists... the vast majority of those are so ignorant of facts that they do not realize that they have embraced America’s slide into communism... but choose to be a 3 percenter... because 97% of Colonials were fine with British iron rule... but 3% made FREEDOM happen... and I am a 3 percenter and I would rather be DEAD than RED.

LLS


15 posted on 05/29/2011 7:25:52 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("If you lie hard enough and sell your soul... you can scam your way to the top" barack obama)
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To: radioone

Cue Inconceivable Guy!


16 posted on 05/29/2011 7:28:10 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: radioone

I don’t recall Obummer speaking about the economy much at all of late. Its a bad topic for him now and that why all we hear about is the middle east.


17 posted on 05/29/2011 7:58:00 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Vinnie

Bush, unemployment around 5%,...4%. Let’s be accurate.


18 posted on 05/29/2011 8:02:30 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: Vinnie
Sadly, about half the population has abrogated that gift/responsibility to the government.

The half who have not abrogated that responsibility is sufficient.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Samuel Adams

19 posted on 05/29/2011 8:16:46 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: radioone
After the 2008 fall meltdown America could have embarked on several courses. We know which one they did embark on, the one where we are trillions more in debt than two years earlier with a high unemployment rate and stagnant growth. Undoubtedly, even if McCain were elected, things would not be be nearly this bad. For all his faults, at least McCain was good on the spending issue.

But here we are with The Great Spreader presiding over a disastrous economy and still blaming his predecessor for all his own shortcomings. The Pubbie nominee in 2012 will have to make the case for slashing spending and unleashing business from the stranglehold of liberal-leftism Obama has put on it.

20 posted on 05/29/2011 8:24:22 AM PDT by driftless2
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