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Night and Day, “Washington comPost on unemployment edition”

Ed catches the comPost in a real doozy here.

What a difference a (D) makes!  In 2003-4, George Bush got derided for talking about economic recovery during the 2004 election campaign while unemployment declined from 6.2% to 5.6%.  Critics derided it as a “jobless recovery,” including the Washington Post.  Now, however, an increase in unemployment has become a measure of improvement in the economy as it goes up to 9.5%.

Yes, folks, the comPost hails the loss of a quarter of a million jobs in August as proof that the economy is improving, and the words “jobless recovery” don’t quite seem to make their way into the comPost‘s report.  No, instead they insist that unemployment going up is a good thing because…it didn’t go up as much as they thought it would?

I heard a rumor (and I’m just throwing it out there for you, make of it what you will) that today we have a Democrat president, and in 2004, we had a Republican president.  Not that this has anything to do with the comPost‘s recent nuanced view of the economy, mind you.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

September 1, 2009 - Posted by crushliberalism | economic ignorance, media bias, Night and Day