Video: Noted news “organization” blasts White House stimulus numbers
posted at 10:55 am on October 30, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Darn that Fox News! How dare they call the White House’s stimulus numbers “hard to believe”! Their biased reporting in this clip snidely says that their new report on “saved or created” jobs coming out today “won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on,” and they get some expert no one’s ever heard of to call it “useless” on their biased prime-time programming. Why, it’s a violation of the truce declared by Fox, and a …
Huh? What was that? Was that … Katie Couric? When did Katie go to Fox News?
Chip Reid’s final factoid sounds like a satire of government spending, the kind of goofy idea one would make up while shooting the bull with your college-sophomore friends. Man, if the federal government spent $219,000 to study the sex lives of first-year female college students, you’d say, I’d apply for a job as a researcher! Seriously, who came up with this pork item anyway, Hugh Hefner?
The tone of this report on CBS, of all places, indicates that the credibility of this administration has finally begun to collapse. When the Tiffany Network goes on the air to say that a report from Barack Obama’s White House isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on and that the previous incompetence calls into question any numbers announced today, I’d say that the honeymoon may finally be over.
So when does CBS start getting the Fox treatment by Robert Gibbs and Valerie Jarrett? (via Instapundit)
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Haa Haaa Haaaaaaaa!!!
OmahaConservative on October 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Wow that was pretty clear that the honeymoon isn’t just over but marriage counseling might be on the way as well.
sammypants on October 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Later that night, when Katie Couric’s reading comprehension caught up and she realized she had been critical of the Obama administration, Katie began to cry and shake uncontrollably.
DAMN YOU TELEPROMPTER!!!!!
portlandon on October 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM
CBS is not WH Approved news Organization.
antisocial on October 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM
David Letterman.
the_nile on October 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM
MSLSD, the last of the state-controlled media.
OmahaConservative on October 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM
At what point will Katie’s hair be shorter than Brian Williams? Of course, he is more feminine.
Sugar Land on October 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Yeah. I wondered if going after Fox would make the other outlets feel pressured to be MORE critical or look like chumps.
Delicious.
S. Weasel on October 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM
How long until Katie gets called into the principal’s office for a stern talking to?
Tonus on October 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM
How long before she apologizes for reporting the news?
artist on October 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Liar Liar
nyx on October 30, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Great stuff!
I don’t know which is funnier, the press taking swipes at the Obama administration, or their desperate attempts to attract viewers away from FOX news, who is beating the pants off of them in the ratings.
UltimateBob on October 30, 2009 at 11:06 AM
When did Katie become such a racist?
Good Lt on October 30, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Sometimes the elephant in the room can’t be ignored.
SouthernGent on October 30, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Its a farce. The Onion strikes again.
Katie Curic could no more criticize the President Obortion than The Fonz could utter the words “I was wrong”.
A physical impossibility that Hawking and Sagan himself could not describe.
BobMbx on October 30, 2009 at 11:08 AM
I’m starting to feel a little less that we are doomed.
Brat on October 30, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Saved or created was a farce from the start. As usual, BO gets both sides of the issue.
booter on October 30, 2009 at 11:08 AM
“Last night, CBS News did a segment about President Obama’s Stimulus job numbers that was critical of the Administration. We would like to apologize for this, as we had acquired a set of used teleprompters, and unbeknownst to us these units were originally owned by FoxNews.“-Katie Couric
portlandon on October 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM
A news organization that’s discovered the key to the soaring ratings at Fox News: reporting facts.
BuckeyeSam on October 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Before long MSNBC will be the only “real” news organization, according to the White House.
BuzzCrutcher on October 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM
I think Chip is starting to see the light.
Wasn’t that him grilling Gibbs about White House access for donors the other day?
blink on October 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Wow.
becki51758 on October 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Maybe the rats are manning the lifeboats.
kingsjester on October 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Studying the sex lives of female college freshmen…that’s the kind of stimulus plan I can back.
taney71 on October 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Fake but accurate?
Kafir on October 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
All she cares about is RATINGS!!! \”Dammit that Faux news! What do they got that I don\’t got? Oh yeah, I\’ll show them ratings! I\’ll report something TRUE and hand Faux News their asses in MY primetime slot!\”
Fishoutofwater on October 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM
It’s the Bizarro CBS News!!! Not the real one!!!
rockmom on October 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Too little, too late.
hogfat on October 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM
She will fold when the one comes after her!:)and get all wee-weed up.
ohiobabe on October 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
…perhaps they were just lowering expectations to make the report look, um, er, good?
LEBA on October 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Yeah. It’s almost enough to make you wonder if the folks at CBS are pissed that they haven’t gotten their White House bowling invitations yet.
rockmom on October 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
When perfectly good roads are torn up just to keep the shovels from rusting you have to know jobs aren’t being created. When is Obama going to quit saving those jobs and put people to work?
fourdeucer on October 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
I can almost hear the lightning bolt hitting them…”Tell the truth! What a concept!!”
Patrick S on October 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Katie, what’s the frequency?
Del Dolemonte on October 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Why’s all my apostrophe’s makin’ backslash’s?
Fishoutofwater on October 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Wow… I’m really shocked… maybe there is hope…
CCRWM on October 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM
You owe me a new monitor…
Ed Morrissey on October 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Oh….that stimulus program! I did not know kids in college needed this type of stimulus.
WashJeff on October 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Now that CBS has opened the gate on Bozo’s credibility, you can expect to see the rest open fire on him too.
Bozo will try to plug the injury, but it won’t work. The sharks smell blood in the water.
But why oh why have they turned on their messiah? Can it possibly be that he has told so many whoppers for so long?
Could it be self preservation or that horrid desire to make money? Heh. If Bozo reaches out to spank Katie over this, what will the consequences be?
Yesterday they all saw the Pelosi socialism conference, the fake GDP report, now the fake Jobs report and the fake photo op at Dover.
They know about the parties, the golf, the campaigning and all the other social activities Bozo engaged in, while our soldiers and innocent civilians, even UN personnel are dying by the score.
dogsoldier on October 30, 2009 at 11:15 AM
I sense the White House will begin to “go to the mattresses” mafia style since even its in-house media is slowly turning against it! We’ll see fewer press availabilities and press conferences, Gibbs will become “unavailable for comment,” and the whole “every is against us” meme will be floated!
It is not so much that we have an Obama Administration that is failing, we have an Obama Ego that is being questioned – on the economy, on Afghanistan, and on myriad domestic issues and the Ego can’t handle anything but worship… it’s like MS Windows OS not being able to reboot and an endless CTL-ALT-DEL reset command key cycle from the public, particularly on economic issues!
When even committed leftist journalists like Katie abandon the White House talking points better abandon ship soon…
IntheNet on October 30, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Dude, where’s your credibility Mr. POTUS!?
ted c on October 30, 2009 at 11:16 AM
One fair report, while interesting, does not a network make.
But it may indicate that ABC’s news ratings improvement since Jake Tapper has been hammering, albeit lightly, is being noticed by the big black eye.
Time will tell.
TXUS on October 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Let me be clear, this is not the Katie Couric I knew.
Anders on October 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM
One has to wonder how the Obama administration’s “new math” will work with the Senate’s cap and trade/global warming hoax bill with future job losses predicted to be in the millions. Un-employment was at 30% in the great depression—you’re only 2/3rds away from your goal, Mr. Obama.
Rovin on October 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM
I do wonder about that. Bill O’Reilly has been almost insufferable lately when gloating over Fox’s ratings and he often cites how his show is neck-and-neck with Katie Couric in viewers.
Has CBS finally figured out that being a propaganda outfit for the Obama Administration is a recipe for ratings disaster? I guess we’ll know that hell has truly frozen over if Palin does an interview with Couric to promote her book and is treated fairly.
Doughboy on October 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM
That was my thought. Couric can’t stand how he’s upstaging her.
AnninCA on October 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM
CBS issues retraction in 3…2…1…
profitsbeard on October 30, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Where the **** was Katie Couric last fall when 48% of us said that Obama was not only dangerously unqualified, but a radical marxist as well?
Oh, yeah.
turfmann on October 30, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Is it just an accident that the last word Katie said in this clip is the name of the indian city of Lahore?
sultanp on October 30, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Today.
Griz on October 30, 2009 at 11:19 AM
You know this is only CYA stuff. The legacy media knows that sooner or later a Republican is going to be in the White House. They know that sword has two edges and they don’t want to get left out in the cold.
Johnnyreb on October 30, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Roman Polansky might also have had a hand in it (no pun intended).
TXUS on October 30, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Well, at least we didn’t waste money on snow makers for MN.
WashJeff on October 30, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Is it at all possible that CBS is trying to become a less liberal media outlet?
blink on October 30, 2009 at 11:21 AM
How do you measure ‘saved’ jobs anyway?
This report sounds like some good old Soviet headline about a record grain harvest…
krl on October 30, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Katie is still a creep.
OmahaConservative on October 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM
CBS is watched by the Blue Hair demo. They are turning on Obama. CBS is just playing to its audience.
James on October 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Just like the pollsters, at some point you have to “correct” your product in order to retain a shred of credibility for the next cycle or ratings period.
This is CBS trying to retain that shred of credibility in the face of obvious and overwhelming proof that the stimulus was, is, and continues to be the single biggest waste of taxpayer dollars in U.S. history.
JoeinTX on October 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM
24% actually using the U-6 method. We are presently over 17% if no one has their finger on the scale. Bear in mind we did not have the entitlement numbers or the population back then.
Just in terms of raw numbers we have more people unemployed and homeless than we did in 1929. Remember, we have a population of 330 million now.
As I keep saying we are way past the point where the number of unemployed begin to effect the supply chain.
dogsoldier on October 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Whine House to declare war on CBS in 5, 4, 3, 2 …
Seriously, can we try some tax cuts now? You have FAILED, Mr. President. Now let’s give Rush’s stimulus plan a shot and see what happens.
NoLeftTurn on October 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM
I guess even CBS can’t ignore the 6 million job gap between Obama and reality.
forest on October 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM
So far the score is 100,000 pro-Obama newscasts and 1 anti-Obama newscast on CBS.
Lets just wait and see if they can crank it all the way up to 2 before we speculate on their truth potential.
fogw on October 30, 2009 at 11:25 AM
CBS needs ratings, it’s a trick to lure us in!
Stephanie on October 30, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Sounds like CBS will be getting a “talking to” sometime today.
NickelAndDime on October 30, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Is Katie going to have her award taken away for this?
WashJeff on October 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Correct analysis.
davidk on October 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Lol. Will never work.
OmahaConservative on October 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM
This report is certainly noteworthy.
But I suspect we’ll sooner see Katie pole dancing in Times Square before the state run stenographers and videographers change their spots.
TXUS on October 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM
I think reality may be hitting the news organizations on a very personal level. Drudge has a headline that Time’s workforce will be slashed by 6% by Thanksgiving. The NY Times just announced major job cuts. CNN is in 4th place. And CBS’s stock is in the toilet.
At some point, these companies need to realize that profit matters. Congress is not gonna bail them out, even though many Dems would love to. The political support isn’t there. So they can either rediscover their journalistic principles(assuming they ever had any) and start reporting news, or they can continue to carry water for the Dems and wind up in bankruptcy. The real kind, not the GM/Chrysler variety.
Doughboy on October 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Fishy, evil mongering, Nazis.
The White House is only paranoid because everyone is against them.
NoDonkey on October 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Maybe the Stimulus saved the country from being overrun by gigantic herds of pink elephants??
I haven’t seen any since Porkulus was passed…
This is just as valid as claiming credit for any jobs which have not already been destroyed. But wouldn’t it be more valid to say that the Job Destroyer who is in the White House is incompetent?
landlines on October 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM
The White House brought this on themselves by embarrassing CBS, ABC and CNN with their attack of Fox News (nothing in the world could embarrass NBC and its cable counterpart).
Aside from getting Fox more viewers, by going after them the administration was pretty much telling everyone out there that at the very least, they believed they had the other networks in their pocket, and the failed effort last week to get the other networks to take their side in banning Fox from the White House reporters pool coverage was the last straw.
The other networks may have whored themselves out to Obama for the past two years, but that didn’t mean they weren’t in denial about doing that, and they certainly didn’t what the White House pointing that out. The attacks on Fox forced them to either admit that they’re just shills for Barack or actually go out and do at least something to show they’re not biased. Odds are they’ll just do 1-2 stories or interviews like Campbell Brown vs. Valerie Jarrett on Wednesday in order to show they’re tough on Obama, and then go back to their normal ways by mid-November.
jon1979 on October 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Racist!
Battlecruiser-operational on October 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM
We can only hope these liberal activists posing as journalist start to actually hold the Obama administration accountable.
They have a lot of messiah worship invested in Obama so I won’t hold my breath, but this is a good start.
Baxter Greene on October 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I saw a bumper sticker recently that said, “I’m not a racist, I don’t like his white half, either.”
Good for a chuckle.
UltimateBob on October 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I think they want to be allowed to interview the American Insurgents during the coming civil war and they can’t do that if they are viewed as the enemy … just sayin…
CCRWM on October 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM
I just want to know if Obama is finally playing 21, three-on-three, or HORSE with some women. Priorities people!
Beagle on October 30, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Please, this isn’t about Obama. Obama must blame someone.
This is a setup for Christina Romer to fall somewhere down the line. She needs to watch her back.
faraway on October 30, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Limbaugh won’t be able to resist this.
a capella on October 30, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Katie says, the big lug hasn’t sent any flowers or candy lately, so this should get his attention. Careful, honey, you could wake up with a dead fish. Bundle money next time.
Kissmygrits on October 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM
If Obama has lost Katie Couric he’s lost the war.
Waterloo.
If this isn’t an aberration, CBS has figured it out… People are watching FNC because it’s the only news outlet that is actually PROPERLY REPORTING ON THIS ADMINISTRATION. Everyone else have been acting as Obama fluffers.
wildcat84 on October 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM
First Fox, then AP, now CBS……pretty soon there will be only ONE “accurate news organization”……MSNBC. Barry says so.
GarandFan on October 30, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Whew! I bet that Child Care Center in Florida is glad that their stimulus money was recieved with no strings attached.
midlander on October 30, 2009 at 11:42 AM
It’s not that the honeymoon’s over; the other networks are putting their fingers to the wind. Although there’s a hurricane blowing from the south, they’ve been trying to convince themselves (and the wind) that it’s really coming from the north.
When you have one network whose 3am show has higher ratings than a rival’s 8pm slot, said failing network eventually will reevaluate itself and its standings. And, just like all other major corporations–particularly in Hollywood or in any media business–it’s rare to see one take a risk and stray from the flock. So, risk big, win big? That’s what Big Media is asking itself now. Better yet, slowly change; all the better, so that down the road, as they’re continued to be questioned about objectivity, and forced to veer back to the center, such pieces like this can be brought up.
CBS (or anyone else from Big Media) isn’t about to do a 180; it’ll be a slow series of 0.5-degree turns. This is merely the beginning of a long, long winding and uphill road…
CatsGodot on October 30, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Odds are they’ll just do 1-2 stories or interviews like Campbell Brown vs. Valerie Jarrett on Wednesday in order to show they’re tough on Obama, and then go back to their normal ways by mid-November.
jon1979 on October 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Agreed. At the same time, I expect Fox to be on “good behavior.” This would be part of the syndrome of the accused — the overcompensating need to prove you aren’t what you are accused of being — which the White House understands and knows how to exploit.
rrpjr on October 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM
At today’s daily WH Press Beating.
Key West Reader on October 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM
They know what they are,..they just don’t like to have it made public. However, I suspect rather than an opening salvo, this is a token to be used for future reference on credentials.
a capella on October 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM
You better come to terms and know that people who want to re-write history will write anything anytime. If you don’t believe me axe Rahm or Axelhead, Zero or John Kerry. What you Kool-aid drinkers also need to know is that they know you will believe anything they say. Its a sad thing that 53% voted for a lie and a sham last November.
See the USA in a Chevrolet!
bluegrass on October 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Now the staterun media has turned on chairman Obama pbuh?
Jerricho68 on October 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM
I think we should back up a step further. If a “job” is just some busy work created from a temporary infusion of borrowed funds for political influence, why are we even counting this as a job?
A real JOB is something that is ongoing, funded by ongoing revenues. It is silly to even count the so called shovel ready projects as jobs because they all have a start and end date to the projects. And what makes those “jobs” even sillier to count as JOBS, is the fact that probably 90% of the unemployed don’t make their living working with their hands. The whole stimulus was stupid and poorly conceived.
Why are we even allowing the administration to begin to count jobs from this “stimulus” as a credible starting point? Unless they measure the number of PRIVATE SECTOR full time permanent jobs that have been “created” by this fiasco, all reports are meaningless.
The “stimulus” funding is short term and the government does not create jobs, it takes money out of the economy.
karenhasfreedom on October 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Either way, I’m really happy to see it. Not only is it the right thing to do, it’s also smart business.
Did you catch the little snippet on Lou Dobbs’ show last night with Campbell Brown playing the role of a real journalist when interviewing Valerie Jarret?
I couldn’t believe I was seeing what I was seeing. I think the media tide is finally, slowly but surely, starting to turn. And I hope Obama’s administration stupidly goes after them. Fuel on the fire.
techno_barbarian on October 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM
That’s right. The Stimulus paid for one year’s funding for teachers, firefighters, and other union “jobs”. What happens next year?
faraway on October 30, 2009 at 11:51 AM
The reality of economics.
Johan Klaus on October 30, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Boehner!
JetBoy on October 30, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Please, keep your boehner to yourself.
faraway on October 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Hey, guess who’s on TV again?
The guy who wants more privacy.
fogw on October 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Trick…..or treat????!! ;)
atlgal on October 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Kind of like our currency…
Seven Percent Solution on October 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM
RadClown on October 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM
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