text: Lumpy Junk: Conservative Media Says Liberal Media Quoted Jeb Bush Out Of Context: Invents Fake Context To Prove it.
  Conservative Media Says Liberal Media Quoted Jeb Bush Out Of Context: Invents Fake Context To Prove it.
  (This particular post is not satire)
  So Jeb Bush made a Romney-esque comment that people need to work "longer hours."
  Bush: "My aspiration for the country and I believe we can achieve it, is 4% growth as far as the eye can see. Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families. That's the only way we're going to get out of this rut that we're in."
  The media ran with the "longer hours" bit as proof of Jeb being out of touch.
  However, in the conservative media, they tell the story much differently.
  Business Insider ran this story, insisting that Jeb was being taken out of context:
  Democrats say they've found adevastating Jeb Bush gaffe, but he's mostly right
  On Wednesday, Democrats seized on Bush's comment in an interview with the editorial board of New Hampshire's Union Leader. He said growing the economy would require people to 'work longer hours.'
  Okay, wow, so Jeb immediately clarified that he was talking about people who are working part time being given the opportunity to work full-time. He didn't mean we should all be working longer hours.
  That damn liberal media is just trying to quote him out of context!
  The conservative media seized on this transcript from Business Insider and has generated plenty of articles about the liberal media and how they lie and quote Republicans out of context.
  The Washington Examiner ran this story:
  "Mind the gaffe: Jeb Bush'scautionary tale"
  As made plain during the interview, the last thing Bush meant was that struggling poor and middle class Americans already toiling full time must work longer hours if they want to get ahead.
  But plug 'People need to work longer hours' into an Internet search engine and what comes up are pages of headlines similar to this one: 'Jeb Bush: People need to work longer hours.' Democrats moved swiftly to undercut Bush, scion of a wealthy, politically-connected family, with attacks...
  Yes, they actually used the phrase "but plug" in the Washington Examiner.
  After crying foul, they then reproduce the same transcript as Business Insider. Except they make one change. Rather than saying "Bush:" and "Question:" in the trasnscript, it alternates between "Bush:" and "U-L:" meaning the New Hampshire Union Leader.
  Something called "Front Page Mag" Subtitled: "A Project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center" ran the story as:
  WHY CAN'T PAUL KRUGMAN STOP LYING?
  It's a question as to whether Krugman is ridiculously sloppy or ridiculously dishonest.
  They say Krugman "tried to clumsily jump on the Jeb Bush 'more hours' bandwagon." Then they reproduce the transcript from Business Insider. Then they sum it up as Paul Krugman either not reading the full quote or he did read it and chose to lie about it. Then they call him either "ridiculously sloppy" or "ridiculously dishonest."
  You see that full-context exchange?
  The Union Leader put the video of that interview online, you can watch the whole thing here: http://www.c-span.org/video/?327013-1/new-hampshire-union-leader-interview-jeb-bush
  Go to 16:15 and press play for the relevant section.
  Follow along with the Business Insider transcript and see if you can spot the problem...
  If you can't access the video, here's a transcript of what's said
  Jeb: My aspiration for the country and I believe we can achieve it, is 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see. Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families. That's the only way we're going to get out of this rut that we're in. And you can't grow at 4% unless you do a whole series of things, one of which, maybe the most important of which is tax reform. So simplifying the code as dramatically as you can. Lowering--eliminating as many of the tax expenditures that exist, and lowering rates, and shifting power away from Washington, and all of the protectors of the protected class. I mean go from Dulles to Washington... in every building is full of people who are making a lot of money...or trying to create another sanctuary or fighting to tear down another one. It's all about something that shouldn't exist. We should be shifting power away from Washington, and one of the most dramatic ways you can do it is by simplifying the tax code.
  He goes on to talk about the Estonian model of taxation, shrinking the federal government, then sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, marijuana legalization, and many other things.
  Everything that follows Bush's first quote in the Business Insider transcript is not from this interview.
  So when they say this is a transcript:
  BUSH: My aspiration for the country … people need to work longer hours ... That's the only way we're going to get out of this rut that we're in.
  They're neglecting to mention that between Jeb saying "this rut that we're in" and someone asking him "To keep us from taking it out of context..." he had traveled to a different city, attended another event, and then addressed totally different reporters. In fact, between those two quotes being said, the first quote had become a gaffe, been spread on twitter, and the next quote is actually in response to the gaffe already being a PR problem for Jeb!
  At 3:47 pm, ABC News had already tweeted the "longer hours" quote:
  By 4:32 pm, the 21 second video was on twitter.
  At 6:30 pm, Jeb attended an event at the VFW in Hudson, NH. After that event ended, he spoke to reporters and that is when the rest of the "transcript" is from, which you can see at The Guardian
  See that second quote, that's what's in the Business Insider article. At least 4 hours or so had transpired between the quote being spread as a gaffe on twitter and Jeb!s "clarification."
  Business Insider and others have mashed two interviews together into a phony transcript and then attacked the media, liberals, Hillary, Paul Krugman, et al. For quoting Bush out of context and proving it by creating fake context.
  Maybe Jeb did mean that people working part-time should be given the opportunity to work full-time when he said that original quote. In any case, Business Insider and others have created fake context and reported it as proof that he was taken out of context, and that should be a story.
  So let's give Jeb a chance to explain what he really meant:
  Jeb: If we're going to grow the economy people need to be—stop being part-time workers. They need to be having access to greater opportunities to work. Look under this administration they have created rules that make it harder for people to work. This overtime rule is going to end up creating not more opportunities and higher income for people—people are going to end up working less. Obamacare has forced people, businesses to hire people for 30 hours rather than 40 hours. Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton think now that's great because they are free to pursue their dreams that they might want to do. Well I think people want to work harder to be able to have more money in their own pockets, not to be dependent on government. You can take it out of context all you want, but high sustained growth means that people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours and by our success they have money and disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it rather than getting in line and being dependent upon government.
  So what he's really saying is that businesses trying to avoid Obamacare and save money by cutting people's hours to keep them technically part-time and thus screwing them out of health care...shouldn't be doing that. So is he saying businesses should stop screwing their employees? Or is he saying we should get rid of Obamacare?
  It seems that Jeb thinks it's not the businesses fault that they screwing their employees by denying them healthcare. Instead it's Obama and Pelosi's fault for forcing businesses to do this to their workers. It would be one thing if he attacked Obama for not envisioning the unintended consequences, but he doesn't say that, instead apparently Obama likes that employers did this because his goal was to get people more free time and be more dependent on the government.
  So he wasn't saying you should work longer hours because you're lazy. He's saying we should get rid of Obamacare so you can work longer hours and still not have healthcare.
  After watching the whole interview with the Union Leader, I have to say that there's a certain section in which Jeb! Seems to be doing a great impersonation of his brother.