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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen any good economic news happens...
...notice in the "comments" section (of any article) how the RWnuts, CONs, Repubs, (whatever you want to call them)...notice how they all rush to denounce the news.
What's good for the country is bad for them.
Says a lot.
Here's an example...scroll down for comments:
Unemployment near three-year low
http://news.yahoo.com/unemployment-near-three-low-125927252.html
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When any good economic news happens... (Original Post)
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Jan 2012
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liberal N proud
(60,289 posts)1. The media always follows any good news with a "BUT"
Then throwing it negative.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)2. Antebellum , isn't exclusive to the South
Neo-nuts where I live ( upstate N.Y. ) believe his faliure is essential ,without any factual reasoning.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)3. I believe most of them are paid RW operatives.
They will post anything to make readers question the good news and/or focus on some negative aspect... and it does not matter whether what they post is factual or not.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)4. Some (R) Congressman (southern, to boot) actually said in a news interview...
last night that "The Obama administration shouldn't take credit for this."
It was hysterical.
surfdog
(624 posts)5. Oh the irony
Sounds like you just described the DU