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The WSJ Does Democrat Propaganda?

Posted by Dan Riehl on October 22, 2006 - 01:15.

In what looks to be a rather misleading piece of information, reporter Jeanne Cummings of the Wall Street Journal has an article touting the fiscal responsibility of Democrats when it comes to campaign finance management, but the facts don't seem to support that case.

via Three Sources it appears that DailyKos, among others, are picking up the theme, perhaps as a way to assure voters that Liberals aren't the poor fiscal managers and tax and spend legislators history has proved them to be.

If you scroll down at the WSJ link you'll find a prominently featured pie chart
          We call this bull shit pie
which actually suggests Democrats have kept operational expenses down. The chart does lend that impression, as it relies on raw expenditure dollar amounts, but everyone, especially the Wall Street Journal should know that those numbers can't be analyzed as raw data. They need to be looked at as percentages of the gross number of dollars raised.


Two points -
  1. That KOS and democrats would even attempt to make hay out of such an arcane piece of crap is interesting.  That data, even it was true, would not persuade even a single voter to swap sides.  Not one.  It's simply another  naked woman proxy in the great liberal circle-jerk of the self satisfied.
  2. The Wall Street Journal, editorial pages aside, has been clocked as more liberal than even the New York Times.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hehehehe...

yeah, Liberal Democrat John Corzine promised not to raise Taxes, and then did...

Billy and Hilly Clinton campaigned on a middle class tax cut, and the end to big governemt, but then raised taxation massively, while trying to Nationalize Health Care...

Hillary was recently debated by John Spencer, and had no response for his reminder she voted to raise taxation 50 times...

Liberal Democrat Gregoire promised no new taxes for Washington, then quickly raised taxation on everything...

etc...

Jake said...

The opinion page of the Wall Street Journal is conservative. But the rest of the paper is left-wing somewhere between the Washington Post and the NYT.

The conflict between the news section and the opinion page has gotten so bad, that the news section has its own left-wing editorial columnists. And the opinion page has hired reporters and does original reporting on the opinion page.

The paper's left-wing bias screws up the business news section. All good economic news is given a bad news spin. During the Clinton years, just the opposite was done. So a WSJ business reader has to read only the stats and ignore the commentary.

Anonymous said...

Yep, I remember the '92 campaign. Clinton went around saying it was the worst economy since Hoover(don't they have any shame, they pull this line out every GD election) and the middle class would get a tax cut FIRST thing.

First thing turned out to be trying to get openly gay men into the military and than old Bill said now that he was president and got to see the books, things were much worse than he ever could have imagined. So not only would there be no tax rate cuts BUT there would be the largest tax increase in the history of the world.

Do these idiots think this shit just goes down a memory hole? There are things that I'll never forget and no amount of their spin will change that. And anyone that buys into the latest version is hopeless.
MM

Anonymous said...

The WSJ Editorial page no longer counts as conservative, either. (In case you haven't noticed them publishing commentary there by Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton, among several other prominent Democrats.)

Bartlett is dead and the new editor of the page immediately turned the pages toward the Left just by running things written by Democrats.

Peggy Noonan and the Weekly Standard have never been as conservative as perceived, Fox News is "conservative" only relative to the other networks and Bill O'Reilly is Libertarian, not conservative.

As in the 1980s, the only major and reliably conservative voice in the fray is Rush Limbaugh.

But if you want a conservative editorial page, start reading Investor's Business Daily.

LGD

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