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Fox & Friends falsehood: Bush admin didn't have jobs "saved or created" category

June 10, 2009 11:01 am ET

From the June 10 edition of Fox News Channel's FOX & Friends:

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Fox & Friends also forwarded the attack that because the current unemployment rate is higher than initial Obama administration predictions, the stimulus is failing. During the segment, Fox News aired on-screen text claiming, "Stimulus bill a bust?" and "Visual aid shows why stimulus is failing." As Media Matters for America has noted, supporters of a stimulus bill had warned before it was passed that it would not result in an immediate decrease in unemployment.

Previously:

WSJ column's falsehood: Bush admin did not make claims about jobs "saved or created"

Olbermann awards Tony Fratto "Best Historical Revisionist" for false jobs "saved or created" claim, credits MMFA rebuttal

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    • Author by John Paradox (June 10, 2009 11:10 am ET)
         
      YouTube journalism.
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    • Author by afroman (June 10, 2009 11:21 am ET)
         
      Ever wonder why Fox News fails to identify themselves as part of the main stream media? Don't they get the highest ratings amongst all the major networks? geez

      Perhaps these idiots need to do their jobs by asking propaganda specialist Major Garrett to ask Gibbs the stupid questions they claim no one is willing to ask.

      These idiots will do anything to pander to the uneducated white bible thumping drones in the "real america" region of the USA.
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    • Author by snoopy (June 10, 2009 11:25 am ET)
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      All Bush had was a "money pilfered" category...
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    • Author by nerzog (June 10, 2009 11:33 am ET)
         
      The unemployment rate is the new talking point du jour, from Uncle Newtie on down. I've heard it several times this week.

      They're desperate... they have to latch on to something.
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    • Author by mk3872 (June 10, 2009 11:58 am ET)
         
      Amazing. Simply amazing. All you have to do is Google "jobs created or saved" from the Bush admin and you'll find that they used it for years, too.

      It is common public-facing political-style economic butchery.

      But, again, Fox News only points these things out when a Dem is in the WH. Never, ever, would you hear complaints about this, or Presidential travel, or budget deficits, when Bush was in the WH.

      It is utterly ridiculous. Fox News is a circus show.
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      • Author by Parkerz (June 10, 2009 12:51 pm ET)
           
        I did 'Google' "jobs created or saved" and found lots of hits, but they were all from 2009 and mention Obama. So that I can prove this to my Bushie friends, can you point me to some specific links that mention how Bush used the term, or had the category "jobs created or saved"?

        Thanks
        Parkerz
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    • Author by seeryer (June 10, 2009 12:47 pm ET)
         
      Bumper Sticker Journalism. Congrats Fox.
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    • Author by latanza (June 10, 2009 2:05 pm ET)
         
      The Bush Administration created a lot of jobs, they were just in Iraq. The Department of Defense benefitted from most of those created. What they should have done was recruited more military and made the United States domestically secure. WHERE IS THE RETURN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM THOSE HIGH GAS RATES AND ALL OF THOSE OIL FIELDS WE SEIZED?
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