The Only Thing Certain In The Obama Economy

21 Replies to “The Only Thing Certain In The Obama Economy”

1. Ed Morrisey at Hotair has been using the “unexpected” tag line for over a year now. Mostly referencing AP based storys.

2. When your world view is based on unicorn kisses, vacuous platitudes and the restorative power of children’s laughter, it isn’t surprising reality is “unexpected”.

3. Media bias is blatantly on display. When the Dems rule the roost, everything is rosey and when it’s not, it is never as bad as it is in reality.
   When the Reps rule, everything is bad all the time and there is absolute silence when things go well.
   That is the reality we face.

4. File this one under THE NARRATIVE .

5. The 60 Mimutes answer in less than 15 minutes. US shipping jobs.
   http://tinyurl.com/3on3bzh

6. Obama unexpectedly becomes a one term president.

7. Bill D. Cat
   The Narrative has taken on it’s own phony persona in much the same way as NJ trash The Situation has…bullshit and bravado only get you so far…usually six feet deeper than planned.

8. ‘Nother nice MSM word: blast.
   MSM often used blast to blast Liberals Count Ignatieff and Kyoto Dionky and Jeancula and PMJr and ….. Jack LaytoNDP was blast-free, however.
   “Liberals blast Tories for skipping Expo 2012 in South Korea”
   (g-m0

9. syncro ,
   Never underestimate the power of the narrative …… see Jack Layton .
   Said with not an ounce of disrespect to Jack .

10. No one expects the Kenyan Inquisition.

11. Expect to see unexpected pop up in stories all the way to the very end of Obama’s presidency. Hopefully in January 2013.
    @maz2:
    Just think of all the puns if someone created a designer narcotic and named it blast.

12. Bill D. Cat
    That’s the thing about The Narrative, it’s never the whole picture, just light and shadows from one angle.
    Looking at Jack, one could develop a plausible narrative much different than the one currently portrayed by most of the MSM.
    For instance, Jack’s sudden turn in health post election was self inflicted by political ambition.
    The truth is probably some of Narrative A and some of Narrative B.

13. “confounding expectations”
    Is that “unexpected” on steroids?

14. syncro ,
    The problem I have is the lights and shadows all come from one angle .

15. That would make “the blatantly obvious”…”unexpected”…on Ritalin.?.

16. Bill D. Cat
    Me too…

17. The important sentence in the referenced article is the upward revision in LAST week’s number of initial claims.
    This trick has been going on for about four years now. The “flash” number is announced to great fanfare, and has often been better than expected. Then, six to eight week later, the flash number is downgraded (e.g. GDP growth flash was 0.4, later downgraded to -0.1) to something that would have sent the markets into tailspin.
    I’m amazed market commentators continue to fall for this nonsense, but they do. Makes you wonder what the main attributes of most financial media people are: credulousness, lack of curiousity, double-digit IQ’s…

18. The headline I DON’T want to read is “Obama unexpectedly re-elected.”

19. KevinB said: “I’m amazed market commentators continue to fall for this nonsense, but they do.”
    All part of the media message machine. Keep the rubes buying stock on Hope and Change, keep Barry’s boat floating. Bloomberg particularly has been bad for this lately. Oddly CNBC has less of it and they do it glaringly, almost as a running gag.
    Wait until Bernanke speaks this morning. That could be some pretty interesting market pop-or-drop moment.

20. Ok, 10:10 AM, Big Ben Bernanke just spoke, said Not Much, and the DOW just tanked 100 points in a couple minutes. Currently 10960.
    How unexpected.

21. Oh, and now it unexpectedly bounced up to 11,164! Wow, you really can’t predict the market, can you? So maybe socialists should stop trying. Just a thought.