National Mood Brightens

[Phantasmal]

Exact same coverage - it is not like CNN that has like an "international" edition...there is just one set of coverage. Back in 03 to 04 it was quite rowdy but the balance aspect was there. It started to disappear through the Obama years, some.

I agree that these days it is not intellectual - it is just pure nationalism 101.

03 to 2018 is a huge difference for the network. It is like a different company altogether.

Their beating the drum for the Iraq War was what made me tune out. It is truly when it became unfair and unbalanced.

[Chloé]

I didn't see much of the drumbeat part (exams etc) but since I was like a 4 year old I wanted Bush 41 to go into Bagdhad as Saddam was attacking British interests and troops later (Kuwait / no fly zone) so I would have likely been even more in favor of their rah rah approach than even they were!

[Phantasmal]

I didn't see much of the drumbeat part (exams etc) but since I was like a 4 year old I wanted Bush 41 to go into Bagdhad as Saddam was attacking British interests and troops later (Kuwait / no fly zone) so I would have likely been even more in favor of their rah rah approach than even they were!

Bush 41 was the smarter of the two Bushes, he knew better than to go into Baghdad. I bet the younger now wishes he had listened to dad.

[Chloé]

I figure that a lot of it is also "If Bush 41 went in, in the first place..."

I was a gung ho military nut when I was like 4 or 5 for whatever reason - never really grew out of it. (I feel like I missed my calling some (in life) when the UK hit Argentine a few years before I was born).

In regards to FNC though, it is the little things that irritated the shit out me in the changes they made.

They became way too monolithic in the dress sense of their anchors - back in the day female anchors would wear and alter their wardrobe some. In the last year or two that I watched the women wore nothing but the same dresses all day every day. They got tighter and made the anchors look like they had fatter thighs and arms. The studios got way too laborious. They had good ad music playing overseas when they could use no advertising but in the end they started rick rolling their fox extra segments instead - like Diane Macedo's food tasting. Sadly she loved every single restaurant she ever went to. News Anchor? Maybe. Food critic...never.

They also started to get rid of my favorite anchors (like Lauhrie Dhue) and cancelled great shows, like the Fox magazine. They are going back to that now with their new series on life in the 1700s etc but they tried to fix something that wasn't broken.

Greta's show was law and order and having obsessed over a couple of stories for what felt like 6 years (Scott Peterson and Laci, and then Natalie Holloway and Anna Nicole Smith) she forgot her legal career and turned into a political analyst?

I'll be ranting here forever at this rate so yeah thought that I would just leave a brief insight into my beef with the network.

[Minister of Truth]

2nd Quarter growth was just adjusted up to 4.2%

[Stretch]

2nd Quarter growth was just adjusted up to 4.2%

[Getin the ring]

A just-released IBD/TIPP Poll shows big gains in key sentiment indicators. Given the pervasive negativity in the media these days, you might doubt these positive polling numbers. If so, have you looked at the economy lately?

When it comes to President Trump and the national mood, something seems to have happened in recent weeks, as shown by our IBD/TIPP Poll of 900 people taken from July 26 to August 2. Keep in mind that anything over 50 is optimistic; under 50, pessimistic.

Start with our Presidential Leadership Index, which jumped 3.2% in August to 45.7, the highest level since President Trump's first full month in office.

Equally important, the Direction of the Country Index, which gauges how Americans feel about our nation's current course, surged 13% to 50.1 in August. That's the highest level since 2005.

hen there's our proprietary Quality of Life Index. It rose 7% for the month to 64.2. This is the highest ever, eclipsing the previous high of 63.1 set way back in 2004.

We could go on. But you get the idea. The poll-based indicators measuring how people feel about things have moved up sharply. Put simply, people feel better about the country than they have in years, even decades. Why? Look no farther than Friday's jobs report — another sign the economy is firing on all cylinders.

The 157,000 rise in payrolls at U.S. businesses doesn't sound so great until you realize that the two previous months were revised up by 59,000. We've averaged 215,000 new jobs a month this year, 224,000 in the last three months alone. Even manufacturing, long given up for dead, gained 37,000 jobs.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate slipped to 3.9%, just a tick above its modern 49-year-low of 3.8% set in May of this year.

As everyone knows, second quarter GDP rose at 4.1% — and will likely be revised upward in coming months. But economists are now busy revising their third quarter GDP growth estimates upward, based on a continued strong economy — and despite the ongoing tariff-trade skirmish between the U.S., China, Mexico, Canada and the EU. Even manufacturing, long given up for dead, gained 37,000 jobs.

Contrary to what the media tell you, this time those with low incomes and minorities are participating in the growth.

For instance, the jobless rate for those who lack a high school diploma is now at its lowest level ever. As for those who want to work full-time but can only find part-time work, their rate is the lowest since 2007 — the month the 2007-2008 economic crash began.

Latino and Hispanic workers' unemployment rates stood at 4.5% — an all-time low. Meanwhile, at 6.6%, African-American unemployment now equals the third-lowest rate ever. Minority workers are participating in this boom as never before.

And all workers are seeing gains from working, with average hourly earnings rising a solid 2.7% for a second-straight month.

There's one big reason for this: President Trump's policies of tax cuts, deregulation and plentiful energy have revived the growth spirits of our economy. Some day, even our mainstream media friends will understand this fact.
https://www.investors.com/politics/e...pp-poll-media/

Isn't it wonderful, everyone I know is feeling better about the country, the economy and life in general.
I feel blessed to live in America, and always have, but where we were headed under Democrat rule was alarming.
It's like no one cared.

Seeing all that Trump has done in 17 months makes me wonder if the last four presidents were even trying

[Getin the ring]

Bush 41 was the smarter of the two Bushes, he knew better than to go into Baghdad. I bet the younger now wishes he had listened to dad.

don't know if that's true, Iraq is a much better place to live now, for Iraqis, and the notice Bush served to Hussein was you defy UN orders you may end up on the business end of a rope, from your own peoples hands too is a message I think a lot of thug dictators will pay attention to for years to come.

[Bourbon]

I lot of self-stroking going on these days ... can't imagine why, with Mr Happy in the White House is soooo Angry.

[blackascoal]

A just-released IBD/TIPP Poll shows big gains in key sentiment indicators. Given the pervasive negativity in the media these days, you might doubt these positive polling numbers. If so, have you looked at the economy lately?

When it comes to President Trump and the national mood, something seems to have happened in recent weeks, as shown by our IBD/TIPP Poll of 900 people taken from July 26 to August 2. Keep in mind that anything over 50 is optimistic; under 50, pessimistic.

Start with our Presidential Leadership Index, which jumped 3.2% in August to 45.7, the highest level since President Trump's first full month in office.

Equally important, the Direction of the Country Index, which gauges how Americans feel about our nation's current course, surged 13% to 50.1 in August. That's the highest level since 2005.

hen there's our proprietary Quality of Life Index. It rose 7% for the month to 64.2. This is the highest ever, eclipsing the previous high of 63.1 set way back in 2004.

We could go on. But you get the idea. The poll-based indicators measuring how people feel about things have moved up sharply. Put simply, people feel better about the country than they have in years, even decades. Why? Look no farther than Friday's jobs report — another sign the economy is firing on all cylinders.

The 157,000 rise in payrolls at U.S. businesses doesn't sound so great until you realize that the two previous months were revised up by 59,000. We've averaged 215,000 new jobs a month this year, 224,000 in the last three months alone. Even manufacturing, long given up for dead, gained 37,000 jobs.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate slipped to 3.9%, just a tick above its modern 49-year-low of 3.8% set in May of this year.

As everyone knows, second quarter GDP rose at 4.1% — and will likely be revised upward in coming months. But economists are now busy revising their third quarter GDP growth estimates upward, based on a continued strong economy — and despite the ongoing tariff-trade skirmish between the U.S., China, Mexico, Canada and the EU. Even manufacturing, long given up for dead, gained 37,000 jobs.

Contrary to what the media tell you, this time those with low incomes and minorities are participating in the growth.

For instance, the jobless rate for those who lack a high school diploma is now at its lowest level ever. As for those who want to work full-time but can only find part-time work, their rate is the lowest since 2007 — the month the 2007-2008 economic crash began.

Latino and Hispanic workers' unemployment rates stood at 4.5% — an all-time low. Meanwhile, at 6.6%, African-American unemployment now equals the third-lowest rate ever. Minority workers are participating in this boom as never before.

And all workers are seeing gains from working, with average hourly earnings rising a solid 2.7% for a second-straight month.

There's one big reason for this: President Trump's policies of tax cuts, deregulation and plentiful energy have revived the growth spirits of our economy. Some day, even our mainstream media friends will understand this fact.
https://www.investors.com/politics/e...pp-poll-media/

They see the end of Trumpism coming 'round the corner.

That would make most sane people happy.

[FUCK THE POLICE]

A just-released IBD/TIPP Poll shows big gains in key sentiment indicators. Given the pervasive negativity in the media these days, you might doubt these positive polling numbers. If so, have you looked at the economy lately?

When it comes to President Trump and the national mood, something seems to have happened in recent weeks, as shown by our IBD/TIPP Poll of 900 people taken from July 26 to August 2. Keep in mind that anything over 50 is optimistic; under 50, pessimistic.

Start with our Presidential Leadership Index, which jumped 3.2% in August to 45.7, the highest level since President Trump's first full month in office.

Equally important, the Direction of the Country Index, which gauges how Americans feel about our nation's current course, surged 13% to 50.1 in August. That's the highest level since 2005.

hen there's our proprietary Quality of Life Index. It rose 7% for the month to 64.2. This is the highest ever, eclipsing the previous high of 63.1 set way back in 2004.

We could go on. But you get the idea. The poll-based indicators measuring how people feel about things have moved up sharply. Put simply, people feel better about the country than they have in years, even decades. Why? Look no farther than Friday's jobs report — another sign the economy is firing on all cylinders.

The 157,000 rise in payrolls at U.S. businesses doesn't sound so great until you realize that the two previous months were revised up by 59,000. We've averaged 215,000 new jobs a month this year, 224,000 in the last three months alone. Even manufacturing, long given up for dead, gained 37,000 jobs.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate slipped to 3.9%, just a tick above its modern 49-year-low of 3.8% set in May of this year.

As everyone knows, second quarter GDP rose at 4.1% — and will likely be revised upward in coming months. But economists are now busy revising their third quarter GDP growth estimates upward, based on a continued strong economy — and despite the ongoing tariff-trade skirmish between the U.S., China, Mexico, Canada and the EU. Even manufacturing, long given up for dead, gained 37,000 jobs.

Contrary to what the media tell you, this time those with low incomes and minorities are participating in the growth.

For instance, the jobless rate for those who lack a high school diploma is now at its lowest level ever. As for those who want to work full-time but can only find part-time work, their rate is the lowest since 2007 — the month the 2007-2008 economic crash began.

Latino and Hispanic workers' unemployment rates stood at 4.5% — an all-time low. Meanwhile, at 6.6%, African-American unemployment now equals the third-lowest rate ever. Minority workers are participating in this boom as never before.

And all workers are seeing gains from working, with average hourly earnings rising a solid 2.7% for a second-straight month.

There's one big reason for this: President Trump's policies of tax cuts, deregulation and plentiful energy have revived the growth spirits of our economy. Some day, even our mainstream media friends will understand this fact.
https://www.investors.com/politics/e...pp-poll-media/

Republicans are always whining about the "course" of the country and refuse to acknowledge anything besides totalitarianism as the "right course". Of course they would say that, Trumpism is a cult, it's not an ideology.