“Media Showing Itself As Financial Catastrophe Denialists,” Ace sagely observes:
Very good point from an Instapundit reader. After quoting a story about the Make Believe Media ready, willing, and eager to undertake its customary duty of talking up the pain of budget cuts while failing to note the just-as-real pain of inevitable fiscal disaster, …
Reader Dave Gamble notes an inconsistency in terms of how the politico/media establishment deals with the budget crisis — certain to come — versus global warming — a possibility: “Somehow protecting future generations from possibly having to endure the hardship of an extra tenth of a degree over the next century is a high moral calling, while fighting against the certainty of mortgaging their financial future with trillions in government debt is the work of the devil. Odd.”
AdvertisementYes, it is odd — the science is settled but it appears the unavoidable and simple arithmetic is infinitely mutable and open to question.
Why are those who claim that math has suddenly stopped functioning in 2010 not deemed to be “anti-math”? (Or just anti-science, as math is the handmaiden of the sciences.) Why are those who deny fiscal reality not termed Financial Catastrophe Denialists, on par with Holocaust Denialists?
I mean, unlike the Holocaust, math is real.
No but seriously, isn’t it pretty obvious which defects of thinking the media is God-sworn to combat? I just watched a Sunday talk show in which the host — David Gregory, I think — would not stop asking Boehner to swear to a fact about which he knows nothing (Obama’s citizenship). Over at Hot Air, Stephanopolous similarly demanded that Bachmann swear that Obama is a Christian and a citizen.
As Jim Treacher tweets, “Apparently, ‘Stephanopolous’ is Greek for ‘Quick, change the subject!’” Note this exchange:
BACHMANN: You know, what I focus on today, George, is today’s the two-year anniversary of the stimulus program, where we spent a trillion dollars to make sure unemployment wouldn’t go above eight percent. That’s what I’m worried about, because the people in the 6th District of Minnesota are very concerned about job creation, and that’s a lot more important that dealing with –
STEPHANOPOULOS: Final quick question. We’re just curious, we have a big day here, Lady Gaga in the studio. You a fan?
As Ace writes:
NBC has a Green Week. Think they’ll start a Solvency Week? To similarly raise awareness?
Don’t count on it. While the media is eager to expose what it believes is erroneous thinking that hurts the liberal cause, they have no desire at all to cure erroneous thinking that helps the liberal cause.
Even if it destroys the country. And not in goddamned 2115 but in 2015.
Which dovetails well with our post yesterday on the Politico’s in-house sandwich board wearer: what would Galileo do?
Update: Faced with his state’s budget crisis, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker replies that those who didn’t see it coming must have been in a “coma,” the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
Or a cocoon.
Bachmann should have retorted at Stephanopoulos, “Now I can see why Clinton used your office for oral sex. Is your father the priest proud of you?
“Ace”? Ace who? Why is what she (he? it?) says important? Is there some place (accessible to me) where I can read this person’s credentials?
Sorry, if you can’t even address the idea expressed, what on earth would you do with someone’s credentials?
There are these things they use on the intarwebs called ‘links’. Maybe you have heard of them?
The very first link in the post leads to Ace’s blog.
Strangely enough…I keep asking the same question about Obama
Solvency week? Here is the Left’s reply to that: HITLER! HITLER! HITLER! HITLER!…. (you get the picture.)
you forgot to mention that “Fox lies” (I cannot figure out this fixation with the veracity of an ex-president of Mexico, but it is strong on the left. leave the poor man alone he isn’t even president anymore).
“Is there some place (accessible to me) where I can read this person’s credentials?”
Is that easier than dealing with the substance of his comment?
Larry Sheldon – Ace is short for Ace of Spades, a well respected milblogger who has fought for this country and the 2007 recipient of the weblog award for best conservative blog.
Huh. I thought Ace of Spades was a household name in the starboard half of the Blogosphere at this point — which is why I frequently just call him Ace and rarely post much backstory except an occasional language warning.
Ace is one of those people who only need one name. Like Madonna, or Elvis, or Obama.
The question about credentials reminds me of the joke: Mister T actually has a PhD in Fool-Pitying. He seldom mentions it, however, because he feels “Doctor T” is pretentious.
The left believes that the answer to the financial catastrophe will be that they finally get the European-style taxes they’ve been fantasizing about. this is a FEATURE not a bug to them.
must have been in a “coma,”
Nah. They were in a comma. Because only words matter. And the only words that matter are theirs.
Yes, everyone knows one of the biggest problems facing this country is that some people have too much money. Not too little, too much. Because raising taxes on everybody above the median income won’t produce a dime for those below the median (unless of course, they work for the government). Nor does it matter whether it raises revenue or not, only that it prevents the upper-middle class (not the rich, they’re already rich) from having too much money. And that’s one thing the government can do well.
I heartily agree with the majority of the article but I have one question. What does the quote “I mean, unlike the Holocaust, math is real” mean? It seems to me both are real.
Ironmike,
That’s Ace’s line; you’ll have to ask him. I think he was referring to the MSM’s frequent ad hominem slur on pro-free market individuals as “global warming deniers.” Or as Newbusters notes, “In March 2006, CBS reporter Scott Pelley famously compared [in a piece on global warming skeptics], ‘If I do an interview with Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?’”
Whatever one can say about Ace, he is neither an antisemite nor a Holocaust denier — quite the reverse. My guess is he meant to type “climate Holocaust”…