More fun from the Bush Administration

[Upchurch]

Okay, off topic, but does anyone else besides me cringe whenever they hear Hannity talk about "Hannitizing the vote"?

brr...

 

[Tony]

Okay, off topic, but does anyone else besides me cringe whenever they hear Hannity talk about "Hannitizing the vote"?

I cringe everytime I hear the term "Hannitized". Don't they already have a useful word for lobotomy?

 

[Marc]

As for classifying burger flipping as a manufacturing job, I really don't see what difference it makes.

The only difference I can see is if you want to claim to have created thousands of new 'manufacturing' jobs. Give the illusion of growth in industry when it is just more people turning to McD. Or there could even be no growth in even that area, but by reclasifying it you get the impression of growth even when no jobs are actually created.

 

[Upchurch]

"Hannitized"

That's what it was, "Hannitiezed for your protecction"

Protection from what?!?

 

[pgwenthold]

That's probably because Hannity is a radical, and Colmes is a centrist moderate.

My best story about Hannity: during the whole California governor recall mess, he had Gary Coleman on his show. Why? Because Coleman was one of the candidates, of course.

So Hannity is ripping into Gary Coleman because he doesn't know who the vice-president is and other stuff like that. My mom is telling me about how Coleman is such an idiot and how Hannity gave him a hard time, and I'm like, Mom, the fact that Hannity even _had_ Gary Coleman on in the first place tells me how much of an idiot he is. The only reason he brought Coleman on was to show him how much smarter Hannity is on politics. Sorry, clown, the really smart people ignored those losers.

Except Howard Stern, of course, who got the porn star.

 

[Zero]

That's what it was, "Hannitiezed for your protecction"

Protection from what?!?

Protection from reality, of course!!

 

[Upchurch]

Protection from reality, of course!!

or from moderate to liberal thoughts and ideas, which Mr. Hannity considers to be "evil".

 

[Zero]

or from moderate to liberal thoughts and ideas, which Mr. Hannity considers to be "evil".

You forgot to add "moderate conservative ideas" to the list. Anything to the left of Bush is apparently considered "evil leftist thinking".

 

[Loon]

But why on Earth should our government care whether a specific job is considered "manufacturing" or not? It's ridiculous! Government needs to get out of our lives and out of our jobs and stop this unwarranted and MEANINGLESS interference.

I think to some degree these classifications can be used as a metric to gauge the performace of the economy or the country as a whole (i.e., "We losing manufacturing jobs, so exports are decreasing while finished goods imports are on the rise.. And this means X").

But in an election year, it's all about market segmentation. MY guess is most people who work in manufacturing are aware of what sector they work in. So when Bush says "I've been good to your sector," they think "he's been good to me" or "he has my interests at heart." But they (and this is not aimed at manufacturing people but whoever happens to be targeted) tend to forget that the politician's definition of "manufacturing job" might be different than that of a factory worker.

 

[The Don]

There's also the lingering impression that manufacturing jobs are:

- skilled
- reasonably well paid
- somehow "better" for the economy by being more "added value"
- able to provide career rather than temporary employment

This is the case for some manufacturing jobs, and not for others. The facts of course are unimportant, the public is conditioned to think "service sector jobs bad...... manufacturing sector jobs good" whatever the truth of the matter.

If GWB is able to convince the voting public that that he has increased the number of manufacturing sector jobs he will giev the impression (rightly or wrongly) that he has significantly improved the economy an area I understand he is perceived (again rightly or wrongly) to be shaky.