Shallow pundit Kass dives deep into Tea Party brew to bash Obama, convention
At first reading, John Kass's September 9th column "Rhetoric fails to mask unemployment numbers", appears to be a satire of a serious, reality based analysis. It is so devoid of facts and sound reasoning in its simplistic assessment of President Obama's convention acceptance speech and his economic record, that it can't possibly be serious. Yet, John Kass is not one to pen satire and this column is consistent with virtually every piece he's written on Obama, whom he dismisses as a corrupt product of the Chicago machine not possessing of a single laudable attribute.
His beginning alleging Obama was so "flat and desperate in his...convention speech" is a hoot. Not only did the speech receive virtually unanimous praise from all but Romney partisans, it helped give Obama a sizeable bump in the polls that eluded Romney after his wooden, remedy free dud uttered a week earlier; a speech that, unlike Obama's, has disappeared from public consciousness.
Kass's entire column revolves around the GOP talking point that we're still at 8% unemployment so Obama's economic record is a failure. Why wouldn't a responsible journalist that Kass postures to be mention that we were hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs monthly at the end of the Bush administration, and after seven months of slower job losses, Obama has presided over 29 straight months of private sector job growth, adding 4.5 million jobs. Why wouldn't a responsible journalist that Kass purports to be mention that Romney's GOP has vehemently opposed every Obama job creation measure including the $800 billion dollar pump priming that created or saved over 3 million public and private sector jobs. Why isn't there any mention in Kass's column of Obama's virtually single handed effort to save Chrysler and GM from a GOP proposed liquidation that would have shed over a million jobs in the auto industry and disrupted the entire supply chain for the remaining auto makers?
Interestingly, there wasn't a single mention among the hundreds of words in 28 paragraphs about the Romney-Ryan plan which, get this, promotes job creation by giving more tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, firing as many public workers not in the Military-Industrial Complex as possible, and abolishing Obamacare, which, contrary to GOP scare mongers, has seen over a million private sector jobs added since it became effective.
Maybe Kass put on his tri-cornered Tea Party hat when he composed this ditty which would be more appropriate in the Tea Party Times than Section 1, Page 2 of the Chicago Tribune. Substitute the work "Kass" for "President" in the last paragraph and he would have one accurate statement in the column: "No, Mr. Kass, it's not good enough. It's not good enough at all".
His beginning alleging Obama was so "flat and desperate in his...convention speech" is a hoot. Not only did the speech receive virtually unanimous praise from all but Romney partisans, it helped give Obama a sizeable bump in the polls that eluded Romney after his wooden, remedy free dud uttered a week earlier; a speech that, unlike Obama's, has disappeared from public consciousness.
Kass's entire column revolves around the GOP talking point that we're still at 8% unemployment so Obama's economic record is a failure. Why wouldn't a responsible journalist that Kass postures to be mention that we were hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs monthly at the end of the Bush administration, and after seven months of slower job losses, Obama has presided over 29 straight months of private sector job growth, adding 4.5 million jobs. Why wouldn't a responsible journalist that Kass purports to be mention that Romney's GOP has vehemently opposed every Obama job creation measure including the $800 billion dollar pump priming that created or saved over 3 million public and private sector jobs. Why isn't there any mention in Kass's column of Obama's virtually single handed effort to save Chrysler and GM from a GOP proposed liquidation that would have shed over a million jobs in the auto industry and disrupted the entire supply chain for the remaining auto makers?
Interestingly, there wasn't a single mention among the hundreds of words in 28 paragraphs about the Romney-Ryan plan which, get this, promotes job creation by giving more tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, firing as many public workers not in the Military-Industrial Complex as possible, and abolishing Obamacare, which, contrary to GOP scare mongers, has seen over a million private sector jobs added since it became effective.
Maybe Kass put on his tri-cornered Tea Party hat when he composed this ditty which would be more appropriate in the Tea Party Times than Section 1, Page 2 of the Chicago Tribune. Substitute the work "Kass" for "President" in the last paragraph and he would have one accurate statement in the column: "No, Mr. Kass, it's not good enough. It's not good enough at all".
posted by Walt Zlotow at 7:29 PM
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