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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Did Chuck Todd Roll His Eyes When Talking About Republican Press Releases?

Take a look at this clip of Chuck Todd chatting with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Pay no attention to Gibbs’ non-answer to Todd’s question; deflecting questions is his job. Rather, take a look at Todd’s expression when asking Gibbs about Christina Romer’s comments from yesterday, which I wrote about here, in which she claimed no one ever thought the stimulus would, you know, actually stimulate the economy ...

Topics: obama, msnbc, stimulus, republicans, matthews, economy, todd, gibbs, romer

Posted by Patrick Hynes on 06/30 at 06:14 AM

Monday, June 29, 2009

Obama Econ Advisor Kicks the Stimulus Can, Media Ignores

Why isn’t the stimulus stimulating? According to Christina Romer, no one ever thought it would, at least in the first six months. “We always knew we were not going to get all that much fiscal impact during the first five to six months,” says Romer in an interview with the Financial Times. Her comments are greatly at odds with what others in the Obama administration have said. One would expect that the cable news chat shows could find a minute or two to discuss this.

Topics: barack-obama, stimulus, david-axelrod, larry-summers, christina-romer

Posted by Patrick Hynes on 06/29 at 01:57 PM

Monday, June 15, 2009

Why No Biden Stimulus Apology on Morning Joe?

So the sitting Vice President says “everyone guessed wrong” about the administration’s increasingly unpopular signature policy on the most important one hour of public affairs television in the country and that network’s cable news arm says … nothing the next morning?

Topics: obama, stimulus, biden

Posted by Patrick Hynes on 06/15 at 07:58 AM

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