Sunday Spin Cycle

There are two things I do every Sunday: I wash the laundry, and I watch the morning news shows. The former is necessary, but I don’t know why I subject myself to the latter. Still, like so much dirty laundry, the news on Sunday leaves much to clean up.

CBS Sunday Morning took note of a trend among GOP presidential candidates; they all rail against the failures European socialism on the campaign trail. But how does the rhetoric square with reality over there? Well, CBS found that if you cherry-pick your data, things are just fine across the pond. In fact, in <i>Northern</i> Europe, unemployment is lower than the US national average. So much for the pesky fact that the EU reported 10.1% unemployment in January.

But why get bogged down in lots of boring numbers when you can simply choose to miss the point? That’s ultimately the route CBS took when they praised all the freebies Europe bestows upon its citizens—you know, the ones which are driving the Eurozone’s debt and that Democrats over here are eager to emulate.

NBC’s Meet the Press is apparently the only show left which has not heard that George Zimmerman is Hispanic as they spent the morning wringing their hands over the common plight of the black and the brown man living in fear of whitey.

The pundits on ABC’s This Week have all but convinced themselves that the Supreme Court will uphold the ObamaCare individual mandate. Their hedge: any other outcome will just be the Supremes dabbling in petty politics. The Constitution? What’s that? 

Fox News Sunday had David Plouffe for a guest, who was spinning like a top for Obama. On the Keystone XL pipeline, he’s furthering the fiction that Nebraskans are the roadblock. As a Nebraskan, I can tell you, not true. He was also still trying to sell ObamaCare as a budget balancer and basically treated every other issue that came up as if it were still 2008. Wallace, unfortunately, didn’t push back much against Plouffe’s wild assertions, but to be fair he had on Paul Ryan as a counterpoint.