The Grand Unification Theory of Sucking

Reading Drudge can be so entertaining. Or educational. Educational? Anyway, check out this series of headlines on your right, presented by Drudge without context.

The media critic’s job is to provide context, so here we go. Let’s start from the bottom and work our way up.

First headline - Big government spending programs — having opposite desired effect… :

The Unspinnable Obama Economy

There’s Funemployment and then there’s the White House’s version of reality, or at least its clumsy attempts at Doublethink: Austan Goolsbee proposes that “last month’s loss of 345,000 jobs (resulting in a half percentage point jump in the jobless rate) is somehow good news because it beat predictions”.

Yes. And we’ve always been at war with Eurasia, Mr. Goolsbee. Ha!

The VOA didn’t get the memo: US Unemployment Rate Gallops Ahead of Expectations.