 Hiding From The Truth
Even as two-thirds of the nation is once again buried in a winter horror story, the western third of the United States continues suffering the worst drought in 500 years. Whether it's the blowing snow or the unseasonable heat, we're reasonably certain that millions of Americans have called in "ill" to their workplaces today, so they can hide out at home.
Many of those Americans may just be practicing for their next job though - as either professional cowards for a university search committee, or as lying members of the incompetent national political media. It seems that both kinds of louses have been making appearances in the news lately, though Tuesday appeared to be the day the professional media hacks were scheduled to drop their lies, then run and hide.
From propaganda outlets like Fox and The Daily Caller to incompetent buffoons like Luke Russert and Chuck Todd on the left, much of the political media yesterday exposed just how amateurish they really can be. Effectively, those hacks took Twitter-sized glances at the CBO's 175-page, detailed budget outlook for the next decade. Then they pounded out a click-bait headline to entice the rubes online, dumped a few hundred barely researched words into an article, and left work early, to get to their next massage appointment on time.
Meanwhile, truly competent journalists from Josh Barro on the right to Greg Sargent on the left, along with a host of talented other journalists, made the facts of the CBO's report quite clear...
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