“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.” Never has that phrase by Franklin D. Roosevelt seemed more apt than when reading the economic musings of the Wall Street Journaleditorial page.
Economists are clear: decreased government spending is the primary culprit behind the slow economy. And experts are still calling for more infrastructure investment to prevent another bridge collapse like the 2007 one in Minneapolis. Albert Kleine fisks the WSJ‘s editorial page to show how economic growth and better jobs growth are possible in the wake of President Obama’s economic speech. http://mm4a.org/13dR749
Detroit filed for bankruptcy recently. While conservatives are reflexively blaming Obama for the city’s troubles, Joe Strupp spoke with Detroit reporters to get an actual picture of what led to this. http://mm4a.org/17DggJRRelated: Fox thinks Detroit is a sign of things to come; Albert Kleine and Craig Harrington spoke with economist Jared Bernstein about why Detroit is a rare case: http://mm4a.org/1aYByXL
Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly have become outraged after President Obama’s remarks about race. Salon’s Joan Walsh examined how they stoke racial tension for cash: http://bit.ly/13fyZHQ
HAYES ON O’REILLY
A lot of what Bill O’Reilly has said about race is wrong. Chris Hayes took on O’Reilly’s “super racist rant” — and it’s well worth five minutes of your time. http://mm4a.org/140I4U0
A new Media Mattersanalysis finds that Reuters climate coverage declined under Managing Editor Paul Ingrassia, a self-described “skeptic.” This comes after Reuters’ previous climate change corresspondant claimed that Ingrassia was killing stories. Max Greenberg examines the evidence: http://mm4a.org/1653RNnRelated: Fox News was happy to push a story claiming the EPA targeted conservatives, but when the story predictably collapsed, Fox ignored it: http://mm4a.org/12fyTVO
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