Perhaps President Obama's third book will be young adult fiction, because the media squeals like teenage girls when he spins his yarns. Here's a helpful tip: vampires are popular.
William McGurn writes in the Wall Street Journal of the President's rhetorical slight-of-hand, "Invoke the magic words, however, and -- presto! -- you have the president claiming he has 'saved or created' 150,000 jobs. It all makes for a much nicer spin."
But it's not just President Obama weaving fantastical tales of far-off lands, where leprechauns are all happily employed, dancing and singing folk songs in a lush green valley teeming with unicorns, rainbows and pots of gold.
The media is complicit as well, a fawning accomplice, as though all their adolescent dreams have come true as they transform Newsweek and the New York Times into Teen Beat. "So long as the news continues to repeat the administration's line that the stimulus has already 'saved or created' 150,000 jobs over a time period when the U.S. economy suffered an overall job loss 10 times that number, the White House would be insane to give up a formula that allows them to spin job losses into jobs saved."
President Obama is the magician and the media is the ditsy assistant in the skimpy dress. The American people are the guest from the audience who gets called up to the stage to participate in the grand illusion at the end of the show.
Except the President hasn't practiced this trick. We're going to get sawed in half.
The Media Fall for Phony 'Jobs' Claims
Monday, June 8, 2009
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