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In each case, their tax cut was followed by a substantial increase in jobs. Now, correlation doesn't necessarily prove causality. However, note that Keynesian theory would also argue that tax cuts create jobs, since tax cuts leave more money to be spent, thus increasing demand.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28970576196877320352011-12-05T18:33:17.113-05:002011-12-05T18:33:17.113-05:00That should be "or that cutting taxes creates...That should be "or that <b>cutting</b> taxes creates jobs..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-56067611095646562602011-12-05T18:31:54.346-05:002011-12-05T18:31:54.346-05:00I can't speak for Bruni, but I would imagine h...I can't speak for Bruni, but I would imagine he thought that awful (I agree with Arundel) passage above was quite witty, and valid, since he'd proved his chops by serving as one of the <i>New York Times's</i> food critics. <br /><br />The larger issue is these scripts the establishment media keep trotting out. It's as if they're incapable of any independent thought, or perhaps it's discouraged (except in rare cases, like Krugman and Fallows). <br /><br />Some of it is just dumb, as when they're commenting on Mitt Romney's hair, but a good deal of these scripts are quite destructive, because they create what might be called the discourse--and discursive conditions--under which certain "truths," in the Platonic and Nietzschean senses, come into being.<br /><br />So, when they repeat, or as bad or worse, fail to challenge rhetoric such as that Gore is a liar; or that Kerry is a "flipflopper"; or that there are WMDs in Iraq; or that raising taxes creates jobs; or that John McCain is a "maverick"; and so on, we're talking about them helping to create situations and conditions that result in tremendous hardship for others, loss of livelihood and life, and so much else.<br /><br />I don't know how to get through these folks. It's clear that the writers for the <i>Washington Post</i> and <i>New York Times</i> cannot be moved in any way. They are, it appears, unflagging in their belief in these scripts, no matter what the outcome. It's also clear that they have no idea what "journalism" really is, or that, like those destructive "truths" they help to create, they've redefined it down so extensively that perhaps it does mean something else now, like PR, and faith-based recording, and stenography, and mimicry (but without any critical edge).<br /><br />I don't know what else to say, beyond that whatever we may feel about the people in Congress, the corrupt system they've deeply intermeshed with, global corporations and their control of everything, Wall Street and bankers in general, the military-industrial complex, and so forth, the utter intellectual, ethical and moral bankruptcy of the mass, mainstream, establishment media is one of the major problems we face as a society. How to turn this around is an issue for far better minds than mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67997771418435352962011-12-05T17:02:45.068-05:002011-12-05T17:02:45.068-05:00What about this sparkling prose from the article?
...What about this sparkling prose from the article?<br /><br />"..Republican voters forgive him as they stand at the 2012 salad bar, famished for a protein other than Mitt Romney and forced to choose from what’s there. The baby shrimp absent, the chicken strips missing, they settle for legumes. Gingrich is their bloviating garbanzo bean. Onto the romaine he goes."<br /><br />I was agog at the terribleness of this passage. Bruni is just an awful, awful writer.Arundelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-41169103993466216642011-12-05T16:00:26.083-05:002011-12-05T16:00:26.083-05:00It's actually a step forward. It used to be t...It's actually a step forward. It used to be that journalistic norms required someone like Bruni dig around until he found, or invented, a recent example of a Democrat doing something Republicans do, to support the sacred tenet of "Both sides are equally guilty." Bruni is actually breaking with the standards of his profession, as here, he isn't saying "Both sides do it," but rather, "Both sides used to do it." A wild eyed optimist might call it progress of a sort.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-74283280564031438972011-12-05T15:59:49.614-05:002011-12-05T15:59:49.614-05:00I don't think they so much "let him get a...I don't think they so much "let him get away with" the SS lockbox stuff, as they were simply too stupid/incompetent to criticize that framing of the issue.Matt in the Crownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02083162679471045642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14880121478285326342011-12-05T15:19:35.398-05:002011-12-05T15:19:35.398-05:00Our ignorant media unfairly criticized Gore on Lov...Our ignorant media unfairly criticized Gore on Love Canal and the invention of the internet. OTOH they let him get away with a false promise of a Social Security "lockbox". That term has no meaning.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-86793599068814050542011-12-05T14:44:08.510-05:002011-12-05T14:44:08.510-05:00Yes, I can hear myself, anonymous. If our side kee...Yes, I can hear myself, anonymous. If our side keeps saying something and not doing it, how does that enable us to engage in constructive criticism of the media, when the biggest example of our incompetent media is the way Al Gore was treated when he ran for President? All I would like to do is get that word out. We have been promised chapter 6 for almost a year now. Where is it? Well, maybe in January. I'm not holding my breath based on the past record.Alan Snipeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05070460889011106908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-27350334513164014022011-12-05T10:55:26.696-05:002011-12-05T10:55:26.696-05:00Yes, Alan -- "We" can't complain abo...Yes, Alan -- "We" can't complain about the media because "our" book isn't even out.<br /><br />Can you hear yourself?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30627294959270070272011-12-05T10:42:52.825-05:002011-12-05T10:42:52.825-05:00The media is still driving those mythical stories ...The media is still driving those mythical stories about Al Gore.<br />As for seeing Capter Six of "How He Got There" after the first of the year, well, promises, promises. I have heard that before. We can't very well complain about how the media distorted Al Gore when our own book about it keeps getting delayed and delayed.<br />It's only eleven years after capmpaign 2000 ended and we don't even have chapter 6, let alone the whole book yet.Alan Snipeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05070460889011106908noreply@blogger.com