It’s day two of the DNC in Charlotte, NC. There was not much silliness yesterday, but they’re just getting warmed up.
Here is a gem from Sunday, wherein the left whines about the Democratic Party’s media representatives being asked the same question every other media representative of the party in the White House has been asked during every election since 1980, including McCain’s reps in 2008: Are Americans better off now than they were four years ago?
But because this President and his media representatives cannot answer in the affirmative without lying, the left has decided to label the members of the media who ask the question as “Lazy”, “Incompetent”, and as “Hacks”.
While the source is not clear, someone developed a simple way to identify incompetent news reporters. If you hear a reporter ask people in President Obama’s administration, ideally in a belligerent tone, “are the American people better off than they were four years ago?,”the reporter is trying to tell you that they are not qualified to do their job.
The reason we know that the questioners are incompetent reporters is that this is a pointless question. Suppose your house is on fire and the firefighters race to the scene. They set up their hoses and start spraying water on the blaze as quickly as possible. After the fire is put out, the courageous news reporter on the scene asks the chief firefighter, “is the house in better shape than when you got here?”
They are not at all disillusioned. They’re just delusional.
And now, as promised, Mr. Thomas Sowell – Facts and Fallacies
Suppose your house is not on fire, but the firemen show up and torch it?
Now the view for Neighbor Obama is better, without that ugly house in the way, and the land is cheaper to buy since the Dollar is a devalued currency…
The “better-off” question is a legitimate one in the collective sense. Collectively we are a poorer country than we were 4 years ago, and much worse off than we were 6 years ago when the Democrats took over Congress.
Without taking the time to research the numbers, I doubt that per-capita income is currently going up when it is adjusted for inflation.
Thank for the Thomas Sowell video – he is brilliant.
“After the fire is put out, the courageous news reporter on the scene asks the chief firefighter, ‘is the house in better shape than when you got here?'”
And the answer is simple, “Yes, it is no longer destroying itself.”
How hard is that?