Comments on: ‘Depression Fetishism’ All the Rage

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:25:43 +0000

The coverage of the economy mirrors the way the MSM does business these days. Everything is hyped to the max. Look at the way snowstorms and floods are magnified into life changing disasters. Last spring the midwest experienced flooding that was worse than the norm. The city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa was inundated. MSM reporters descended on the area and forecast economic ruin for farmers. As a matter of fact, the corn planting was significantly delayed, but the season of 2008 turned out to be the second best in history. Where were the MSM at harvesttime? Good question.
The reporting of the Iraq war is another case in point. Every military reversal was treated like a repeat of the battle of the Kasserine Pass in WWII. Our enemies were treated as clever beyond belief, invisible to US troops and next to immortal. US fire seemed to kill only innocent civilians or wounded insurgents. The evening news always seemed to show a fresh video produced by the other side of a Hummer being vaporized by an IED or Juba the mythical sniper taking out another careless American. The reality, as we now know, was that the enemy died in large numbers while Americans were the beneficiaries of the best in weapons technology. That, coupled with a change in strategy (The Surge) which every MSM pundit predicted would fail, routed our enemies. Now that the war has been won, the MSM has withdrawn from the field. They aren’t interested in reporting progress in reconstruction of Iraq’s political or economic infrastructure. It’s on to Gaza to show the murderous Israeli army massacring the innocent Palestinian children as they cower in the UN schools (being used as weapons depots by Hamas).

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:38:12 +0000

And, oh yea! If the U.S. gets hit by another 9/11 size attack, Obambi, our Saviour, will probably impose martial law to “defend” us.
After all, he does want the world to know that now He is Commander in Chief of the most powerful nation on earth.

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:31:31 +0000

With the impending economic and social pain the Obamanation is trying to force through Congress, “We The People” will have to open up neighborhood Water Boarding Clinics to get some relief.

By: Mary Grabar

Mary Grabar — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:15:16 +0000

The situation has to look very dire to prepare the people for a dictator. Listen to Obama’s warnings today. Listen to the talk about how much it will take to clean up the mess Bush has made over the last eight years. Drastic measures are called for! It’s a common technique of tyrants.

By: John Work

John Work — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:21:49 +0000

The continued effort to hype the economic “problems” serves two purposes:

1) Cover for the probability that the economy will get worse under the supervision of the Dems. If the “problems” are hyped now, then later it can all still be blamed on the evil Bush for creating nearly insurmountable problems to be solved by Obama.

2) And to perpetuate the idea that drastic measures are required to correct “capitalistic excesses”. Further down the road, if things indeed get worse, so much the better for this will require even more drastic measures. Obama is already on record as saying that trillion dollar deficits will be required for years to come.

The Left has come to its point of great opportunity for Change. It seems a forlorn Hope that they will fail to take the fullest advantage of it. With their new powers and the perfection of their methods of media blitz and voting fraud, they may well be the ruling party for decades. Of course this assumes that external forces will not impose their rule on all of us due to the great opportunities that the Dems will provide with their defense cuts and foreign policy. Interesting times.

By: L

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:33:27 +0000

Mr. Douglas speaks of, “…the random extermination of the innocents as our most recent example of Islamic radicalism’s barbarous evil….”

When will people wake up?
The problem is not “radical Islam”.
The problem is Islam, period.

By: zanne

zanne — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:49:37 +0000

Three out of four Americans believe financial reporters are making things worse by hyping bad economic news.

January 6, 2009 – by Donald Kent Douglas
Some folks can’t handle the truth.

By: xqqme

xqqme — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:42:43 +0000

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/711-There-Is-No-Unicorn-That-Craps-Skittles.html

Refusal to acknowledge mathematical facts leads to pain, and lots of it, because mathematics never – never – lies.

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:39:39 +0000

Our middle aged son and his wife completely changed careers and started a new “double” business two years ago: 1 side retail sales and the other side wholesaling. They have more than replaced their combined salaries (based on 15 year professional careers) and are, cheerfully, choosing not to participate in the recession.

#1…what David said!

By: Byron Dickens

Byron Dickens — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:26:55 +0000

The MSM has spent the last seven years trying to tell us that we are headed into another Great Depression. Nobody in Texas seems to have gotten the word, though. New construction is going up everywhere. The company I work for is expanding. You get the idea.