Back Talk

Congratulation mainstream media, with your constant misrepresentation of the state of our Economy, you have validated the dictum that Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels expounded that a big lie is more credible than a small one and a lie told often will eventually convince all. We've had incredible economic growth in the last 3 or 4 years in spite of the Iraq War, record high oil prices, and the sub-prime mortgage problems. We have record high employment, steady GDP growth, record high stock market, low inflation, and a terrific living standard. Not to be deterred, the leftist media tells us how poorly we are doing and that our economy is going into the tank. To a point, ignorance can explain the constant media misrepresentation of the Economy; journalism students don’t waste time taking something like Economics; I have yet to encounter a news writer who understood that tax cuts increase government revenues, that consumers, not businesses, pay for restrictions on trade with higher prices, or that capital gains taxes limit capital and depress the Economy which, in turn, cause a decrease, not increase, in tax revenue. Even if they did understand these concepts, they would not report them honestly because they would then be saying something positive about conservative tenets. Most news people are so anti-Bush, they shade all their reporting either consciously or unconsciously knowing it will damage the Bush Presidency in particular and conservatism in general. Either way, it is journalistic malfeasance.