Saturday, March 24, 2012

He said, she said journalism

While we're on the subject of supposed journalistic objectivity (segues are for amateurs), you have to love this piece in the Free Press whose title proclaims "Credit for Auto Industry Recovery Debated."  If memory serves, a debate is where two opposing sides argue an issue, both with facts that serve their claim.  In the auto industry recovery debate, on the one side we have the Obama Administration's facts (two companies and countless thousands of jobs saved) and on the other we have the republican claim that it would have worked out better had we let the private sector handle it.

As my dear, departed father liked to say when faced with such erroneous blather, "...and if the cat hadn't stopped to shit, he'd have won the race."

We are not having a debate on the auto industry recovery--we're having the facts of a successful federal intervention led by President Obama being posited against fucking republican talking points.

Quad erat dictum.

Peace,
emaycee

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