For a President who has built a career off of the media’s favorable coverage, Barack Obama, has recently taken to attacking news organizations

 

The latest is this article from Politico: White House slams AP story. Add this to the administration’s holy war against Fox News and the media’s reaction to it (admittedly, tepid but still a response) and we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the media’s love affair with President Obama.

 

This latest outburst directed towards the media is over this article: Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands. Some of the highlights from the article include:

• A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.
• A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending.
• A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees.

 

Perhaps the administration is pushing back so hard against stories like these is that the American public does not feel like the stimulus is working. In a recent CNN/Opinion Research Poll of adults 56% said they do not believe that the policies of Barack Obama have made the economy better.

 

I guess it is always easier to just shoot the messenger.

 

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