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Chart-Fu

Courtesy of Zero Hedge: People Not In Labor Force Soar By 522,000, Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1981

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Arab Spring Blooms

From the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the Arab Spring doesn’t seem to be working out quite like progressives hoped…

In an unprecedented televised debate for Egyptian presidential candidates, the two frontrunners aggressively attacked each others’ credentials but found common ground in their opposition to Israel, which both called an “enemy.”

“Israel is an enemy,” said Abdul Monheim Aboul Fotouh, an Islamist formerly associated with the Muslim Brotherhood who was jailed by Hosni Mubarak’s government.

Hat Tip: Weasel Zippers

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Examiner: WaPo’s War on Civility

The Washington Examiner takes off the gloves and devastates the Washington Post:

When Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., lost his primary election, The Washington Post editorial board whined about the “confrontational, partisan attitude” of his opponent. If The Post is really concerned about the growing confrontational partisanship in Washington, then they need to look in the mirror. It is their own long established blatant partisanship that has been poisoning the well in DC for years.

It’s also worth noting that the Examiner hits on the exact reason the right people don’t run for high office:

It puts all Republicans on notice that papers like The Post will devote whatever resources are necessary to highlight every bad rumor from their personal lives. Why was the Republican presidential field so weak this year? Because candidates like Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels refused to expose their families to the casual indifference The Post displays as it destroys lives in pursuit of its goal of electing Democrats.

After all, one need only look at Romney’s (and his wife’s) treatment over the last two weeks versus the vetting that President Obama has NEVER had to undergo. But even the Examiner takes the high road by the end:

The Washington Post is a corporation. As all people do, they have a First Amendment right to spend their money as they see fit. We just ask that they don’t whine when conservatives choose to do the same.

Good luck with that. I thought they’d stop whining back when Obama got elected… see how that turned out.

[Added:] Professor Jacobson weighs in over at Legal Insurrection.

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Obama: I Love Gays. Media: Romney Bullies Gays.

President Obama, incapable of impacting our economy in a positive way and knowing nothing but agitation and division, has worked his magic again, coming out as having “evolved” to being in favor of gay marriage, and immediately releasing his media lapdogs at the Washington Post to publish a hit piece painting Romney as a gay basher in High School, circa 1965. But Romney, admitting to being a prankster back in the day, doesn’t remember a prank involving cutting anyone’s hair. In fact apparently no one remembers the incident which supposedly happened 48 years ago. The “victim” died in 2004 so can’t step forward to repudiate this “news.” However his family is alive and his sisters stepped forward immediately:

“The family of John Lauber is releasing a statement saying the portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda. There will be no more comments from the family.”

“If he were alive today, he would be furious [about the story].” Jason Horowitz, the reporter on the Post story, did speak to both sisters and quoted them in the story – but apparently still botched the facts.

Sorry. Horowitz didn’t botch the facts. He invented them from whole cloth by misrepresenting statements of people who didn’t witness an incident that can not be confirmed to have even occurred.

On the plus side, this all strikes me as very good news. Obama is terribly desperate to be forwarding these distractions. His record of accomplishment is awful, unless you’re gay or Osama Bin Laden. So it appears the only thing he can do is pit us against each other. He’s very good at that.

Exit question: Would Barack Obama be our President today if the media had been as interested and successful in revealing every little detail of his past? [Added:] Karl Rove wants to know the same thing. Of course, to the WaPo, that’s a “gripe” and not real.

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