President Obama shows how to get the media to REPORT Republican SABOTAGE of the economy

[ProgressiveEconomist]

President Obama shows how to get the media to REPORT Republican SABOTAGE of the economy

The "info-tainment" media very rarely these days delve into the details of monthly jobs reports. They are interested only in "scandals" and perceived "gaffes" by individual politicians.

In this morning's news conference, I believe President Obama DELIBERATELY said something that would be perceived as a "gaffe" in order to get wider media coverage of now-proven Republican SABOTAGE of the economy. Comparing job losses in construction and the public sector to job gains in the overall private sector, the President said, "The private sector is doing fine".

The details of the latest official employment report back up the President's observation precisely. The June 1st report on May employment showed that the overall private sector generated 82,000 net new jobs, while the public employment sector lost 13,000 jobs (see http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm ). Within the private sector, construction jobs fell by 28,000 (see http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm ).

Thus the weakest sectors of the economy are public employment and construction, precisely the sectors where Republicans have been blocking FOUR MILLION jobs that would be generated by legislation Republicans have stalled in Congress. The Transportation bill, with John Mica's poison pill for urban public transit in the House version, is in a House-Senate conference at this moment. It would create an estimated 3 million construction jobs. The American Jobs Act President Obama sent to Congress last October would generate another million jobs according to independent economists.

On the Sunday talk shows two days after the June 1st jobs report, WH spokespersons focused on the details of now-proven Republican sobotage of the economy (see http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002759908 ). I believe the President this morning used unconventional means DELIBERATELY to focus the media on followups of Republican economic sabotage.

WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. I completely agree ...

I posted something similiar this morning, only I called it a well laid (well, I didn't say well laid) trap.

Here is what I wrote:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=786616

[ProgressiveEconomist]

2. Thanks for that link. I missed this thread of immediate

reactions to this morning's Presidential press conference.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

3. Did anyone else notice that Jake Tapper got the basic story right on ABC World News Tonight

Did anyone else notice that Jake Tapper got the basic story right on ABC World News Tonight--

He pointed out the CONTEXT for the "doing fine" quote Republicans had jumped on, and specifically mentioned the construction and public sectors of the economy. He pointed out that the "doing fine" statement about the private sector was a COMPARATIVE statement about jobs added in that sector compared to jobs CUT in construction and the public sector.

In contrast to Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd on NBC Nightly News did not mention construction of the public sector and just parroted the Romney-Cantor-Boehner-McConnell spin on "doing fine",

[CakeGrrl]

4. I agree.

It's indicative of the sorry state of the media that they have to be tricked into reporting anything remotely objective/unfavorable to the GOP, but that's the strategy I think the Obama administration has to employ. I've noticed media bias at least since the Clinton impeachment. I'll bet others have too.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

7. "the media ... have to be tricked into reporting

anything remotely objective / unfavorable to the GOP'

Plain-spoken eloquence about an Orwellian media!

IMO, Dan Rather's downfall for reporting Dubya's AWOL while the GOP was Swiftboating Kerry taught the media an unfortunate lesson they unfortunately cannot forget.

[cgnick]

5. Republicans always playing the victim card

He could have said that the private sector is in terrible shape and they would have been all over it. They would have said that it is on the brink of death or even that it is dead and Obama murdered it.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. But this time there's proof they themselves are the PERPETRATORS

of crimes against the economy.

[Dawson Leery]

8. Will the GOP be held accountable for their sabatoge?

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-transportation-20120610,0,6085847.story

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-news-jobs-report-and-_b_1575836.html

[ProgressiveEconomist]

9. The Ed Show's LEAD segment just

one day after the President's Monday morning "gaffe" was devoted to Republican SABOTAGE of the economy. Sitting in for Ed Schultz, Michael Eric Dyson pointed to another million jobs IMMEDIATELY on final passage of the Transportation Bill now stuck in a House-Senate conference.

Meantime, MItt Romney had time to argue more teachers, cops, and fireman are not needed, and then to walk back those comments.

Notably, President Obama has himself not yet complained about Republican sabotage, though surrogates such as Barbara Boxer have.

I believe the sabotage theme will build and build until it becomes an overwhelming message of the Obama re=election campaign.

Already, polls have started adding questions dealing with deliberate Republican sabotage of the economy.

And all this began with a rare Presidential "gaffe" that Barack Obama did not correct immediately at his press conference, although he had plenty of time to do exactly that.

All these developments reinforce my suspicion that the "gaffe" was an intentional device to focus the media on Republican economic sabotage now PROVEN by the details of last Friday's jobs report. And it's WORKING!