Garbage In Garbage Out.
No matter how you massage bad data, it's still bad data. Nor will all the spin in the world alter reality on the ground.
One should also take care in the parallels one draws, as all such are double edged swords.The never ending Leftist "progression": That didn't work, let's try it again. Hmm, that didn't work, let's try it again...Stimulus and Response
June 10, 2011 - 8:58 am
Business Insider links to the upcoming Time magazine cover with an "unexpected" twinge of surprise:
Ladies and gentleman, your latest Time Magazine cover.
The full story is here, but we think you get the point from the cover.
That happened fast, didn't it?
Not at all. On November 24 2008, almost two months before then-President-Elect Obama would take office, Time magazine declared him to be the second coming of FDR. When what Time magazine described as "The New, New Deal" turned out to have the identical effect as the Old Old New Deal, why on earth would they be surprised?
Time to get off the misery-go-round of progressive policy.
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Comments (32)
"The never ending Leftist "... (Below threshold)1. Posted by sam | June 10, 2011 1:10 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
"The never ending Leftist "progression": That didn't work, let's try it again. Hmm, that didn't work, let's try it again..."
And with double the effort.
"We are losing money, but we'll make it up on volume."
1. Posted by sam | June 10, 2011 1:10 PM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 13:10
2. Posted by wildman | June 10, 2011 1:20 PM | Score: 12 (14 votes cast)
Hope is not a strategy. Change is not a strategy. Liberalism is not a strategy. The admin is clueless on what to do with the economy, Foreign affairs, The deficit and the nation in general. This is because the folks responsible are clueless. What they learned in the ivory towers has no basis in fact or reality. Give them credit though, they will pursue the agenda to the bitter end because they are right and everyone else is wrong. Their professors told them so.
2. Posted by wildman | June 10, 2011 1:20 PM |
Score: 12 (14 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 13:20
3. Posted by irongrampa | June 10, 2011 1:28 PM | Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Garbage in garbage out--sounds like a good campaign slogan.
Totally fitting in this case.
3. Posted by irongrampa | June 10, 2011 1:28 PM |
Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 13:28
4. Posted by McGehee | June 10, 2011 1:49 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Awww. Franklin Delano Obama turned out to be Hoobert Heever Obama instead.
4. Posted by McGehee | June 10, 2011 1:49 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 13:49
5. Posted by McGehee | June 10, 2011 1:50 PM | Score: 11 (13 votes cast)
5. Posted by McGehee | June 10, 2011 1:50 PM |
Score: 11 (13 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 13:50
6. Posted by Caesar Augustus | June 10, 2011 1:52 PM | Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Every so often reality hits liberals so hard it is able to seep through their concrete skulls. Unfortunately, however, the effect almost always is very short-lived.
Although Time's editors might appear with this latest cover to be clueing in somewhat, it must be noted that by this time next year they'll be in full Obama orgasmic mode, fawning over him like spoiled party girls might fawn over a Hermes catalogue.
6. Posted by Caesar Augustus | June 10, 2011 1:52 PM |
Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 13:52
7. Posted by Tina S | June 10, 2011 2:05 PM | Score: -23 (25 votes cast)
I have always considered Time magazine to be the best publication for indepth and unbiased news coverage.
7. Posted by Tina S | June 10, 2011 2:05 PM |
Score: -23 (25 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 14:05
8. Posted by SER | June 10, 2011 2:13 PM | Score: 19 (19 votes cast)
Tina,
Was that sarcasm? or do you work for Time?
8. Posted by SER | June 10, 2011 2:13 PM |
Score: 19 (19 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 14:13
9. Posted by Sep14 | June 10, 2011 2:13 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
The new misery index is Barry's legacy. Recovery Bummer for the south projects president.
Although I might add, Barry has had a very good summer. Golf at 7, beer at noon and supper with the wookie at any posh diner on the tax payers dime.
9. Posted by Sep14 | June 10, 2011 2:13 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 14:13
10. Posted by GarandFan | June 10, 2011 2:28 PM | Score: 10 (12 votes cast)
"Hmm, that didn't work, let's try it again..."
Yeah, and THIS TIME they'll "get it right". Sure they will.
As for Time - you can see why the readership is declining.
10. Posted by GarandFan | June 10, 2011 2:28 PM |
Score: 10 (12 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 14:28
11. Posted by Tina S | June 10, 2011 2:29 PM | Score: -20 (22 votes cast)
Was that sarcasm? or do you work for Time?
Neither, a lot of people avoid and label all main stream media as liberal biased. If you actually read Time on a regular basis I think you would be suprised at how unbiased they are.
11. Posted by Tina S | June 10, 2011 2:29 PM |
Score: -20 (22 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 14:29
12. Posted by Jim Addison | June 10, 2011 2:30 PM | Score: 6 (10 votes cast)
The left has no other ideas after socialism, so all they CAN do is keep trying again with more money.
After the utter failure of nearly $2 TRILLION in bailout/stimulus money, the likes of Krugman and Robert Reich complained it just wasn't enough.
The Left mirror what was said of the Bourbons, "They have forgotten nothing and learned nothing."
12. Posted by Jim Addison | June 10, 2011 2:30 PM |
Score: 6 (10 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 14:30
13. Posted by WildWillie | June 10, 2011 2:44 PM | Score: 16 (18 votes cast)
I am not surprised Tina S that you think it is unbiased which is code for "I agree with it and I'm a liberal so they must be right".
I am loving the MSM's and the administrations trying to redefine the economy problems. In 2008, is was all, ALL GW Bush's fault. Now, it is a complicated issue that we need to be patient.
Obama's policies and lack of policies are hurting the country. ww
13. Posted by WildWillie | June 10, 2011 2:44 PM |
Score: 16 (18 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 14:44
14. Posted by Idahoser | June 10, 2011 2:45 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Zero is not FDR, Bush was FDR. Zero is LBJ. And the economy is reacting to Zero the same way he responded to FDR, another Great Depression.
14. Posted by Idahoser | June 10, 2011 2:45 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 14:45
15. Posted by Don L | June 10, 2011 2:59 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Thisis discrimination -after all-FDR was handicaped, while allObama doesis work at trying to improve his handicap.
15. Posted by Don L | June 10, 2011 2:59 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 14:59
16. Posted by Don L | June 10, 2011 3:03 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
"I am loving the MSM's and the administrations trying to redefine the economy problems. In 2008, is was all, ALL GW Bush's fault. Now, it is a complicated issue that we need to be patient."
Actually the messiah of the rising seas just blamed Bush by claiming the bad policies of the the last ten years are what is to blame. (read as Bush did it)
16. Posted by Don L | June 10, 2011 3:03 PM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 15:03
17. Posted by Sep14 | June 10, 2011 3:50 PM | Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
#15-16
Yeah, liberal politicians are real good at pointing the finger of blame at others but when it comes to doing the job, not so much.
17. Posted by Sep14 | June 10, 2011 3:50 PM |
Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 15:50
18. Posted by Tina S | June 10, 2011 4:08 PM | Score: -8 (12 votes cast)
I am not surprised Tina S that you think it is unbiased which is code for "I agree with it and I'm a liberal so they must be right".
If I agreed with everything they wrote I would not consider them unbiased.
18. Posted by Tina S | June 10, 2011 4:08 PM |
Score: -8 (12 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 16:08
19. Posted by SER | June 10, 2011 4:51 PM | Score: 17 (17 votes cast)
Tina,
I subscribed to Time magazine from 1976 through 1991. In 1991, I became so disgusted with how biased it had become, I stopped subscribing. You may be correct that it has become unbiased, but it would be the first member of the media to go from left to center. It's columnist / journalist, Joe Klein, was a "journolist" member. The "journolisters" found it necessary to hide the fact that they were liberals. If you produce an "unbiased" product, why hide?
19. Posted by SER | June 10, 2011 4:51 PM |
Score: 17 (17 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 16:51
20. Posted by TexBob | June 10, 2011 4:54 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Looks like Barry's Cloward-Piven strategy is working quite well.
Yep, the destruction of America's economy through the killing of jobs and many socialistic and tyrannical actions is working. I can't wait for $5 a gallon gas and 75 cent a Kilowatt/hour electricity and the wonderful Hope and Change impact they will bring.
20. Posted by TexBob | June 10, 2011 4:54 PM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 16:54
21. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | June 10, 2011 5:09 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
The never ending Leftist "progression": That didn't work, let's try it again. Hmm, that didn't work, let's try it again...
The classic definition of insanity. Totally unintentional, I'm sure.
21. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | June 10, 2011 5:09 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 17:09
22. Posted by Jay Guevara | June 10, 2011 5:10 PM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
If you actually read Time on a regular basis I think you would be suprised at how unbiased they are.
Pravda, too. Totally down the middle.
I subscribed to Time for 27 years, but blew it off several years ago when I'd finally had enough. Unbiased? Please. You can't be serious.
How about the NYT, Tina? Unbiased? What say you?
22. Posted by Jay Guevara | June 10, 2011 5:10 PM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 17:10
23. Posted by Drago | June 10, 2011 5:44 PM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Our lefty friends are moving to the next obama line of defense: economic problems are "structural" and cannot be affected by politicians.
This is always what is provided to us "rubes" the intelligentsia when the economy sucks and the Dems are in charge.
Every single time.
Not to worry though, just as soon as a Republican is elected to the Presidency, suddenly all "structural" barriers to economic performance will "disappear" just in time to hold the republican office holder to account for all economic performance.
23. Posted by Drago | June 10, 2011 5:44 PM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 17:44
24. Posted by Les Nessman | June 10, 2011 5:51 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
"The admin is clueless on what to do with the economy, Foreign affairs, The deficit and the nation in general. This is because the folks responsible are clueless."
No. Most of them know exactly what they are doing. And things are happening pretty much as they expected. You can't be this bad by accident. As TexBob said, their Cloward-Piven strategy is continuing along nicely.
I still think most of them don't REALLY appreciate how ...unsettled...this country will become when it all begins to collapse. But it may be starting to dawn on them.
24. Posted by Les Nessman | June 10, 2011 5:51 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 17:51
25. Posted by retired military | June 10, 2011 6:02 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Tina
About the only thing unbiased about Time is their humor section and that is suspect.
Link one time article where they said something good about Bush.
25. Posted by retired military | June 10, 2011 6:02 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 18:02
26. Posted by Gmac | June 10, 2011 6:21 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
"I have always considered Time magazine to be the best publication for indepth and unbiased news coverage."
I stopped reading Time back in 1973 when they published an article about the Vietnam war that was so one sided and inaccurate I swore I'd never touch another copy again, and I haven't.
That liberals think their policies are 'progressive' is just another re-branding of the same tired bullshit aka Marxism.
26. Posted by Gmac | June 10, 2011 6:21 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 18:21
27. Posted by Sep14 | June 10, 2011 6:49 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Yeah TIME is unbiased and reliable .. 1970's 'The coming Ice Age' needlessly scared some people and solidified the eggheads as propaganda pariahs and political leftist operatives.
27. Posted by Sep14 | June 10, 2011 6:49 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 18:49
28. Posted by OregonMuse | June 10, 2011 7:36 PM | Score: 13 (13 votes cast)
I agree. Every week, Time brings a good balance of all political opinions and perspectives to its pages: left, center-left, left-left, and really left. Yes, Time Magazine has it all.
28. Posted by OregonMuse | June 10, 2011 7:36 PM |
Score: 13 (13 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 19:36
29. Posted by Sep14 | June 10, 2011 7:43 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
^ lol ^
29. Posted by Sep14 | June 10, 2011 7:43 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on June 10, 2011 19:43
30. Posted by Greg | June 11, 2011 7:10 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
this person thinks everyone of us is a "hater" and where does she get the "news"
"
I have always considered Time magazine to be the best publication for indepth and unbiased news coverage.
7. Posted by Tina S |"
dumb and dumber
30. Posted by Greg | June 11, 2011 7:10 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on June 11, 2011 07:10
31. Posted by LeBron Steinman | June 11, 2011 7:34 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"..left, center-left, left-left, and really left. Yes, Time Magazine has it all."
28. Posted by OregonMuse | June 10, 2011
It's the "Bob's Country Bunker" of news magazines.
31. Posted by LeBron Steinman | June 11, 2011 7:34 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on June 11, 2011 07:34
32. Posted by Rodney Graves
| June 12, 2011 3:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
OregonMuse @ 28,
Well said!
32. Posted by Rodney Graves
| June 12, 2011 3:50 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on June 12, 2011 15:50