The Detroit News has an editorial out endorsing Mitt Romney for President.
http://www.detroitnews.com/...
It is no secret that the News is extremely conservative and probably would endorse Romney even if Obama did everything they wanted since being elected President in 2008. But, the News, no friend of the truth, has some serious whoppers in their complaints about why they support Romney and don’t support President Obama.
According to the News: “The president is asking the country to be patient, but his plan isn't producing results that would merit more patience, and the president hasn't spelled out what he would do differently in a second term.” Yet, the editors at the News seem to forget that the Republicans stated theme was to make President Obama a “one-term President”. Not only did Republican Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, make that statement, but prominent Republican elected officials and Frank Luntz (their PR kingpin) met on the night of Obama’s inauguration to prevent his program from being implemented—
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...
So, the News is blaming the President because the Republican Party obstructed. Nothing says journalism like blaming the victim and the News does it quite well.
The News goes on to state that “Romney has a credible plan” and that the “stimulus didn’t work”. The News is wrong on both counts. Romney has not offered a plan, period. So, if the Detroit News has a copy of it, I would like to see it. Secondly, the stimulus did work. The problem suggested by many economists is that it wasn’t big enough.
http://www.usnews.com/...
And Economist Dean Brooks from the Center for Economic and Policy Research nails the “conservative thinking” in claiming the stimulus failed, it’s all about political ideology and has nothing to do with economic reality. The Detroit News if following this same kind of politics over reality approach.
http://www.cepr.net/...
In fact, according to Nobel winning Economist, Paul Krugman, the stimulus was too small. If it was bigger, we could potentially have been fully recovered from the Bush Republican Recession.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/...
Then the News just moves into bold faced lies about Romney having a “solid resume” as a venture capitalist and “saved the 2002 Olympics”. Yes, Mitt was a vulture capitalist making money off of profitable firms and shipping jobs overseas. Romney was there to outsource American jobs--
http://www.motherjones.com/...
And to bankrupt American companies and lay-off American workers—all so Mitt and his financial backers could get richer and richer.
http://www.enewspf.com/...
Oh and about Mitt Romney “saving the 2002 Olympics.” Just isn’t true. The 2002 Olympics got anywhere from $1.3 Billion according to this conservative site--
http://www.rightspeak.net/...
Or up to $2.7 Billion, according to Republican Senator, John McCain.
http://www.politicolnews.com/...
The Detroit News editorial is just so wrong in most aspects except for the part where they thanked President Obama for saving the US Auto Industry. “Don't assume that it was a no-brainer for a conservative newspaper to endorse a conservative presidential candidate. We recognize and are grateful for the extraordinary contribution President Obama made to Michigan in leading the rescue of General Motors and Chrysler. Had either of those companies been allowed to go under, Michigan's economic maladies would have become fatal.”
If it wasn’t for President Obama and the Democrats in Congress saving the US Auto industry, there in effect would be no Detroit auto companies, no Detroit News and no Detroit to speak of, we would be a wasteland today if not for their actions. And it is editorial writing like that which should highlight how the editorial staff of the Detroit News is just promoting politics over reality at best or at worst is suffering from a case of severe Romnesia with complications from cranial rectal inversion.