I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]
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ABCNews is reporting on another JSOC (jobs saved or created) load of crap being fed to the public.
We’ve seen already how the White House has been bending the rules of mathematics by reporting numbers of JSOC at some companies that actually exceed the number of total employees at that company, as well as how they’ve been reporting numbers of jobs “saved” that were never in jeopardy in the first place.
(For more on that, see theblogprof, who has a great collection, some of which I’ll list here:
- The Sacramento Bee reporting a ton of bogus numbers (Surprise! Many California jobs ‘saved’ by stimulus funds weren’t in jeopardy)
- The Boston Globe reporting outright fraud (Boston Globe: Stimulus job boost in state *WILDLY* exaggerated)
- The Las Vegas Sun reporting that Nevada jobs are fraudulent (More stimulus fraud: Nevada using “formula” rather than counting real jobs in stimulus “created or saved” jobs number)
- The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio reports tha jobs listed as “saved” were never in danger in the first place (Salary raises, jobs not in danger counted as “created or saved” in stimulus numbers).
- The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel found that a report saying 10,000 jobs had been created or saved in Wisconsin was “rife with errors, double counting and inflated numbers.”
But, I digress…)
Well, it turns out that to add to the growing scandalous confusion, the White House is now reporting JSOC in imaginary districts. That’s right, congressional districts that don’t actually exist!
Even if we want to think the best of the government, there’s still no way to put a pretty face on the ugly fact that the government can’t manage their information at all, let alone this stimulus project in all its complicated aspects.
And that’s being nice.
The reality is probably closer to our government deliberately covering up numbers and fabricating stories out of whole cloth to cover not just their inadequacies, but their corruption too, as they divvy out stimulus money to their friends and cronies.
This is the government that we’re supposed to trust with fixing health care (if you want to consider it “broken” in the first place). This is the president that ran on a platform of transparency.
What a crock.