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Comment by necrecious | Hacker News Reader

Hmm, I think I detect a little anti-Obama bias.

That seems unfair. You could accuse them of hyperbole and being pessimistic, but they present a lot of facts and the report in general seemed to be even-handed. I didn't see an anti-Obama bias

You didn't find the graph that showed "Democrats take control of Congress" to be biased?

There's also the puzzling choice of an Obama picture under the point "corporate taxes are down".

There was also a picture of Bush on one of the slides. I'd say the reps and dems got equal bashing.

So, you'd say it was "fair and balanced", then?

It's definitely biased, some of those charts are extremely misleading, especially the later ones. I like the one which shows when Democrats take control of Congress.

To me it seems like he's ranting against "those in power" and that just happens to be the Democrats. But if you read the facts he attacks Republican ideas just as much (Outsourcing for example)

How are they misleading? The chart on 19 was from the Federal Reserve. Are the number wrong?

I don't really think there is much difference between republicans and democrats, so I don't really care which party is to blame, they are all the ruling class and make decisions to benefit those by whom they are surrounded -- I don't blame them for it. All human beings make decisions the same way.

But still I don't see how they are misleading. Is there something factually wrong with them?

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