Pirate's Cove

I usually attribute that “these people think you’re stupid” when it comes to globull warming, but, this sure fits the bill. Via Ace we find out

Ace writes

In context, Obama said the private economy was adding jobs, cited some figure for that, asserted the “private sector is doing fine,” then said the problem is in state and local government’s layoffs of public sector workers.

Indeed, Carney repeats all that here, minus the “private sector is doing fine” quote.

Obama’s words aren’t being taken out of context– the “context” is that he was making just this very argument, that the public sector is the troubled one, and the private sector is healthy.

At any rate, the reporter wants to know if Obama himself will refuse to take an “unflattering” sentence of Romney’s and then pounce on it. Carney refuses to answer the “hypothetical.”

Carney also says reporters should “do their jobs” and report context.

In context, as I posted the other day, from the White House transcript (scrubbed of all the ahs, ums, and ers, of course)

Q    What about the Republicans saying that you’re blaming the Europeans for the failures of your own policies?

THE PRESIDENT:  The truth of the matter is that, as I said, we’ve created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone.  The private sector is doing fine. Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government — oftentimes, cuts initiated by governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don’t have the same kind of flexibility as the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in.

The rest of the answer to the question is Blaming Republicans. That’s the context. He is certainly correct about state and local governments, because revenue is way down due to high unemployment, low property values, people not buying that much property (cars, homes, boats, among others) to feed the coffers, buying lower cost property, not buying as many goods, looking for bargains, and so on. Democrats really do not like being quoted in context.

Refer back to the early post for the spit take gif.