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The BIG lie: Obama White House, but WHY?
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In an age of 24/7 news, it’s getting harder and harder to see White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, trot out each morning to give the obviously distorted statistics for our nation’s unemployment numbers.
With dozens of talk shows airing daily, so-called “employment experts” popping up on radio and TV hourly, WHY waste the American public’s time and intelligence suggesting numbers that border on ridiculous, if not fantasy.
It is a well known fact by virtually all credible economists that the jobless rate is 4-5 points higher than the White House numbers. And the question becomes WHY say what isn’t TRUE?
Do the president’s advisors really believe in an era of news overkill that Americans (who have only look at their relatives and neighbors for examples), believe this tripe?
Last year during the presidential campaign, we were told over and over again how an Obama Administration would be a “transparent” operation. It was the cornerstone of his “Obama for Change” theme. It brought many of the disgruntled “Bush refugees” to his promise and he easily defeated Senator McCain by what his campaign called a “mandate”.
But since his election, from unemployment to health care reform to energy and Afghanistan, the more that Obama and his advisors speak, the less we truly understand or find transparent in reality.
Health care reform is a series of plans coming out of both houses that are 1000 or more pages of rhetoric each. It seems as if nobody truly understands the totality of any of the plans and one must conclude that if something does pass, nobody will understand what it.
Another example is Afghanistan.
No one can really blame or misunderstand President Obama for being prudent in his decision to send a requested 40,000 additional troops to that embattled country. It is a solemn decision that many lives rest upon. Many questions must be answered to make that move.
What is the objective? How will it be achieved? Are our military’s sacrifices being made in vain and can we really “win?” These are important questions and ones that take time.
But we are now looking at several months since his hand picked military man in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, requested the additional 40,000 troops. The president may have much to mull over, but not one shred of his thought process has been shared with the American people. 
And now, with the withdrawal of the opposition candidate yesterday in next week’s planned runoff election in Afghanistan, there appears to be no more need to play “wait and see” with American lives in the region. The State Department and the White House have already publicly backed the existing regime this morning..
We are left to hear Bob Gibbs stand at the podium and say directly to the disbelieving press that the decision has “nothing to do with politics” and the decision will be made “shortly”
Is there anybody that isn’t just a blind Obama admirer that believes this propaganda. It’s so meaningless that it has become almost childlike in its nature.
People on both sides of the political spectrum are growing ever more tired of this “kid glove treatment” of the American people. It is the right of all in this nation to be told what the thought process is and how conclusions are being reached.
Yesterday, Valerie Jarrett, a “White House Advisor” (as she was termed) appeared on George Stephanopoulos’s Sunday morning show on ABC. Aside from the predictable partisan slant to all the questions thrown her way, she said something very interesting and without even batting an eye.
When asked about unemployment, she made the statement that the Obama Administration “had gotten a handle on the problem” and that the new numbers showed a “drop to 9.8% in THEIR most recent poll” In stating this erroneous “fact”, she implied that the recession was over or coming to a close.
Nowhere can it be found in any credible news source that the unemployment rate is 9.8% and she had to know it. Yet, there she was on a national news show stating that as fact!
The truth of the matter is, “Unemployment is at its highest level since 1994” according to economist Sylvia Allegretto of the Institute of Research on Labor and Employment at UC BERKELEY (prone to be on the president’s side I would imagine).
“All the data tells us that this is the worst economic downturn since World War Two”, says Paul Wessen, economist with California’s Employment Development Department.
So why all the lying? Or to be more polite, “truth twisting”?
It lies in a key “fight” be waged at this moment between the president’s men and Fox News Network.
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The White House is clearly peeved by the news reporting being conducted by FOX and has made it clear they do not think of them as a “pure news organization”. This, of course, flies in the face of an overwhelming American audience that makes it the number one outlet for news in this country!
But it seems that FOX refuses to be the president’s flunky. FOX is putting up stories that so disturb the White House that they are playing a dangerous game with the Constitution itself. Its déjà vu of the Nixon White House with Emanuel and Axelrod blocking the doors of power much like Erlichman and Haldemann did for Richard Nixon.
Stories are now forthcoming from all other major news organizations condemning the White House for these tactics. Oh, I forgot, MSNBC goes its own way and continues to “go with the flow” or remain the president’s primary talking piece. 
But I digress. If they read this column, I will be labeled a “racist”.
All this to the glee of FOX commentators like Bill O’Reilly on his “Factor” program proclaiming his show 20% up in ratings since “the war” began.
So why go with the big lie? Americans opinion is based on grown adults that can think for themselves. The strategy of trying to hide the truth only exacerbates the problems further.
Ask Nixon, Haldeman, Erlichman, Mitchell, ………….
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