Facts Are Stupid Things: Don’t You Hate It When Donald Trump Is Right?

GWTurkey

While in no way endorsing the 70 something adolescent with arrested development, facts are facts. George W. Bush had been president for about nine full months when the United States suffered the first attack on it’s own soil since Pearl Harbor.  At the time, to deflect blame, I remember Bush used the analogy that he’d “only been here nine months. I mean a man barely get’s his coat on ….”  Yes. Go check my facts. That is more or less the exact quote. He drew an analogy between nine months as president of the United States and barely getting one’s coat on.  As I’ve said many a time before: any man needing nine months to put on a coat, clearly is not ready to be President of the United States.

Read this AP article.

What it says beneath the headline is that Trump pointed out an irrefutable fact. We were attacked on GW’s watch. There can be no debate on that simple truth.

Trump, Bush call each other ‘pathetic’ in 9/11 spat

And the article above does not even mention that Bush received a Presidential Daily Briefing on August 6, 2001 titled: “Bin Laden determined to strike within U.S.”  That is recalled by the NY Times here:

The Deafness Before the Storm

Now Jeb!, in trying to defend the family brand, is saying ‘wait a minute, my brother kept us safe.’  And whether you look back to his inability to heed the warning of August 6, 2001, or look straight ahead at Isis, which in part was born of US torture of prisoners of war, Jeb! has a big hill to climb in trying to back up that claim.

So facts are stupid things.  And in this case,  even I can’t fault Donald Trump for stating the obvious: George W. Bush  was president on September 11, 2001.

What Trump did not say, but what is also true is that G.W.Bush had nine full months to get his coat on.

Annoy The Media: Deficit Down, Unemployment Filings Down. News Coverage Of Both? DOWN, DOWN, DOWN

Annoy The Media  — October 9 2015

SeeNoEvilTalk about glass half full…

In a story I had to read primarily from foreign news sources, one of the best kept secrets the last few days is another massive drop in the annual budget deficit under Barack Obama.

Even more hilarious is that at least one news outlet that did cover this story — Bloomberg — chose to put in the headline that the deficit is “higher” …than expected, without telling the casual reader that the deficit is actually LOWER than it was last year, as one who reads their story would find out.

Add to that another drop in people filing for unemployment and the argument can be made that intentional or not, the media does not want you to focus too much on economic news that does not fit the anti-government narrative.

Read for yourself:
U.S. 2015 Budget Deficit Higher Than Previous Estimate, CBO Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-07/u-s-2015-budget-deficit-higher-than-previous-estimate-cbo-says

Congressional Budget Office: US budget deficit drops to $435 billion
http://news.yahoo.com/congressional-budget-office-budget-deficit-drops-435b-213556389–finance.html

Filings for US jobless aid fell to 263K last week, few signs of layoffs despite slower hiring
http://www.startribune.com/drop-in-applications-for-us-unemployment-benefits-last-week/331218171/

F&%$ Liberal Media!!!!