Thursday, January 8, 2009

Brit Hume falsely claims "everybody agrees ... that the New Deal failed"



Whew, good thing he was at the straight news anchor desk ladling out the "fair and balanced" all those years.

Brit Hume asserted on Your World that "the New Deal -- everybody agrees, I think, on both sides of the spectrum now, that the New Deal failed. The debate is over why it failed," later stating, "President [Franklin] Roosevelt waged what could only be called a jihad against private enterprise." In fact "everybody" doesn't "agree[]" that the New Deal failed; Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, among others, has said that Roosevelt did not go far enough to end the crisis and that his attempts to balance the budget hindered recovery.

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