So, Barbara Walters Asked Palin How She Would Bring Back Jobs

[Yavin4]

And her answer was that she would cut taxes. Okay, is it too much to ask Walters to ask a simple follow up question like, "Well, George Bush cut taxes three times during his presidency, and we had one of the worst new jobs creation rates in our history in this past decade. Also, Bush left office leaving behind the worst economy since the Great Depression. Even in the stimulus that was passed earlier this year, there were several tax cuts involved, and yet, new job creation is non-existant. What evidence do you have that tax cuts lead to new job creation when the record says otherwise?"

Is it too difficult to ask a simple follow up question like that? Why does our media swallow this meme over and over again, ever since the 80s that tax cuts are the only viable federal policy on the economy? Why do they keep this fact alive when the clear evidence shows just the opposite?

Look Barbara. Three clicks and I found some background information for you:

The number of jobs in the nation increased by about 2 percent during Bush's tenure, the most tepid growth over any eight-year span since data collection began seven decades ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/01/12/ST2009011200359.html

Also, Babs didn't ask Palin how she would pay for her tax cuts given the current state of the deficit.

[valerief]

1. Baba is one of the fascists. nt

[Yavin4]

3. To Be Fair, Baba Is An Economic Fascist

On the social issues, she's fairly liberal as are most of the corporate media. They never challenge the notion that tax cuts for the wealthy create economic growth primarily because they are the biggest beneficiaries of these tax cuts.

[undeterred]

2. Because Palin is not a candidate.

Walters knows Palin can't handle serious questions, so why make headlines?

She could have asked her what tree she would be, though.

[Yavin4]

4. Palin Is A Serious Candidate

She out polls all of her potential rivals for the Republican nomination for 2012. We're in an economic crisis, and it's important to hear the leader of the opposition party's agenda on economic matters.

[undeterred]

7. Link to polls, please.

[Yavin4]

8. Here You Go

"Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Republican voters say former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin shares the values of most GOP voters throughout the nation...A plurality believes Palin is representative of a new direction for the Republican Party. That view is held by 57% of Republicans




http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2009/59_of_gop_voters_say_palin_shares_their_values

[RobinA]

9. Al Gore

supposedly shared the values and beliefs of voters in 2000, per many polls. We all know how that turned out.

[immoderate]

12. As I recall, he won.

--imm

[undeterred]

18. Martha Stewart probably shares the values of most Dem voters

but she isn't a candidate for any political office. Neither is Sarah Palin, and the poll does not ask that question.

[Wounded Bear]

24. 59% of 30% is 18%

If they are dumb enough to run her, I'm all for it. ;)

[MattBaggins]

14. Palin doesn't out poll other Republicans

Republicans have a wistful dreamy feeling about her, but admit in the very polls they tout, that she is unqualified.

[HopeHoops]

5. She could pay people to watch Russia from her house!

[ejpoeta]

6. walters doesn't ask those kinds of questions. she likes to make people cry though.

[gratuitous]

10. Palin might as well have said

"I'll create jobs by breeding magic unicorns that poop rainbows!" It would have had just about as much contact with reality as the answer she did give. But now that Our Sarah is of a tax bracket where cuts can mean something (Dick Cheney pockets an extra six figures a year from the tax cuts he cast the tie-breaking vote for), she's all for them and more! Ms. Walters, a fellow multi-millionaire, doesn't have a frame of reference that would allow her to know any better.

[quiet.american]

11. Why did Walters bother to ask? I can see the answer from my house -- "tax cuts and tort reform." nt

[bullimiami]

13. how about a simple 'so how would that work, exactly..."

[dtotire]

15. Thanx for the WP article n/t

[W_HAMILTON]

16. I NEVER understood how cutting taxes was supposed to increase jobs.

I think it's obvious that the majority of companies today are not in the business of charity. They are in the business to make a buck. If adding extra workers does not help them do that, they will not hire extra workers. And if hiring extra workers WOULD help them make more of a profit, why the hell wouldn't they do that already? Because they might only be making $0.65 out of every dollar instead of $0.75?

This is from the crowd that advocated using both sides of a post-it note to save money. You think they wouldn't jump at the chance to make more of a profit, even if that profit was taxed at 95%? Of course they would.

Republicans are idiots. They might believe that cutting taxes will increase jobs, but it won't, not in our cost-cutting society. No jobs will be added, and the extra money saved on taxes will go straight into the company's coffers to bump up the EPS.

[Vinca]

17. The jobs - if any are created - are in China. Unless, of course,

you want to be Paris Hilton's maid.

[spanone]

19. why, you wouldn't want to make your interviewee uncomfortable, now would you?

they would have asked biden that...you betcha

she couldn't run alaska,, how do you think she's gonna run the country????

[Cha]

20. She's part of the fucking mediawhore corp and

they don't do no stinkin' FOLLOW UPS.

[Raine]

21. Babs isn't a "gotcha" type interviewer

like Katie Couric is. ;-)

[jasi2006]

22. Babs doesn't want to suffer the hate of the Palinites like Katie.

They would take it out on the VIEW.

[GoneOffShore]

23. Easy answer as to why she didn't ask follow ups

Barbaras not a journalist. She's a celebrity.