When questioning former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Stephanopoulos, a former senior advisor in the administration of Democratic President Bill Clinton, premised some inquiries on the assertion \u2014 offered without supporting facts \u2014 that Romney\u2019s job-creation statistics were inaccurate.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, there have been questions about that calculation of 100,000 jobs. So if you could explain it a little more,\u201d Stephanopoulos asked Romney of the former governor\u2019s claims about jobs created by companies he has helmed. \u201cI\u2019ve read some analysts who look at it and say that you\u2019re counting the jobs that were created but not counting the jobs that were taken away. Is that accurate?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, it\u2019s not accurate,\u201d Romney bluntly responded. \u201cIt includes the net of both. I\u2019m a good enough numbers guy to make sure I got both sides of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephanopoulos did not cite any analysts by name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All mainstream media – from the Big Three down to the Star\/Tribune <\/em>\u00a0– will check all claims of detachment at the door for the next 11 months. \u00a0Between now and November, I predict, will be the nadir – so far – of the American MSM’s propensity to bias.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The media knows that Obama’s in trouble. \u00a0An incumbent elected in a near-landslide should not be flirting with “unelectable” numbers in the face of the GOP offerings in this campaign. And so look for any pretense of “objectivity” to be more a joke than normal… …as we saw in Saturdays’ debate, where George Stephanopoulos reprised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25464,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25463\/revisions\/25464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}