Bad news, tracker fans. Last night’s Thanksgiving-themed episode of Mike & Molly was a turkey in the fat joke department. I was expecting Mike and Molly’s family to crowd around the table, share thanks and then launch into a full-on fat roast about their lardy loved ones. Instead, we got the following paltry serving. What hath Overeaters Anonymous wrought?
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Sept. 4, San Jose State, (W, 48-3) Sept. 11, Penn State, (W, 24-3) Sept. 18, at Duke, (W, 62-13) Sept. 25, at Arkansas, (W, 24-20) Oct. 2, Florida, (W, 31-6) Oct. 9, at South Carolina, (L, 35-21) Oct. 16, Mississippi, (W, 23-10) Oct. 23, at Tennessee, (W, 41-10) Nov. 6, at LSU, (L, 24-21) Nov. 13, Mississippi State, (W, 30-10) Nov. 18, Georgia State, (W, 63-7) Nov. 26, Auburn, 2:30 p.m. (CBS-3)
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Sunday’s Today show on NBC and Sunday Morning on CBS presented seemingly contradictory polling results on how much ObamaCare is supported by the American public, although both seemed to be citing the same AP poll. As Meet the Press host David Gregory appeared on Today, anchor Lester Holt suggested that Republicans are going against the majority of Americans in promising to repeal ObamaCare as he vaguely referred to polling data and contended, “But new polling out suggests that most people not only do they not want to, don’t want it repealed, they want more added to it,” and added, “Do Republicans have to refine this message and take a better look at it?” According to the AP poll as reported at msnbc.com , “four in 10 adults think the new law did not go far enough to change the health care system.” By contrast, on Sunday Morning, CBS anchor Charles Osgood briefly recounted numbers from the AP poll which suggested that ObamaCare is unpopular. Osgood: “A poll commissioned by the Associated Press finds just 30 percent of Americans in favor of the new health care law, 30 percent are neutral, and 40 percent oppose it. Four out of 10 respondents say the new law doesn’t do enough to change the health care system.” Returning to NBC, Gregory did not comment directly on whether he believed the poll’s accuracy, as he argued that the Republican message may indeed be successful, and went on to raise the theory from the left that ObamaCare will become more popular as people benefit from it: If the message is government’s out of control, they passed this huge entitlement, it’s going to cost a lot of money and have you felt the effects of it yet, I think that has the shot to be a winning political message. But the more people start to feel health care reform, so the argument goes, it will become more popular. But that has not exactly been the case across the board yet with health care reform, and that’s why the President has to keep hammering away at it. Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Sunday, September 26, Sunday Morning on CBS, followed by the same day’s Today show on NBC: #From the September 26 Sunday Morning on CBS: CHARLES OSGOOD: A poll commissioned by the Associated Press finds just 30 percent of Americans in favor of the new health care law, 30 percent are neutral, and 40 percent oppose it. Four out of 10 respondents say the new law doesn’t do enough to change the health care system. #From the September 26 Today show on NBC: LESTER HOLT: The President in his weekly radio address, he talked about the Pledge for America, it’s the Republican pledge that they have released. One of the things they talked about was going after the health care, repealing the health care bill. But new polling out suggests that most people not only do they not want to, don’t want it repealed they want more added to it. Do Republicans have to refine this message and take a better look at it? DAVID GREGORY: Well, I think that, from a political point of view, if the message is government’s out of control, they passed this huge entitlement, it’s going to cost a lot of money and have you felt the effects of it yet, I think that has the shot to be a winning political message. But the more people start to feel health care reform, so the argument goes, it will become more popular. But that has not exactly been the case across the board yet with health care reform, and that’s why the President has to keep hammering away at it. HOLT: This Pledge for America, of course, many compare it to the contract from 1994. How does it differ? GREGORY: Well, I mean, it is, it’s very similar. It lacks some specifics that the ’94 contract had. But one thing that’s similar is that what’s more important than the Pledge to America, what’s more important than the Contract with America is the political climate in which they’re operating. The truth is it’s the unpopularity of President Obama and his policies right now that’s hurting democrats more than faith in the Republicans which, by the way, is an argument that the Presidents trying to exploit and say, look, the alternative is not the way to go here.
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News consumers of America owe a debt of gratitude to Jonathan Klein. Really. Yesterday, NB’s Noel Sheppard noted the ignominious end of Klein’s nearly six-year term as head of CNN/US. If there is an example of anyone who has overseen a bigger audience decline and loss of competitive position and survived so long, I don’t know who he or she is. Fox News, which first passed CNN in total viewers in January 2002 (interesting how this basic factoid is not at Fox’s Wiki entry ), now routinely trounces CNN and CNN Headline combined by a factor of 1.5 to 1 or more. On Thursday , Fox’s primetime audience of 574,000 was 75% greater than the CNN pair’s combined total of 329,000. But before he arrived at CNN to do his damage, Klein inadvertently did the nation a service. Klein’s accidental good deed took place during the Rathergate controversy in 2004. The “story” was that President George W. Bush had somehow received favorable treatment as a member of the Texas Air National Guard in the 1970s. A commenter at FreeRepublic questioned the legitimacy of story-related documents he was seeing on a CBS “60 Minutes” segment, and it snowballed from there. Ultimately, Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs reproduced exact replicas of the documents involved in Microsoft Word using technology that could not conceivably have been accessible to the controversy’s players on typewriters existing at the time, proving beyond any reasonable doubt that the crew at “60 Minutes,” including producer Mary Mapes and host Dan Rather, had either been duped or were knowingly promoting falsehoods. In the meantime, a swarm of center-right blogs found a wide range of other evidence poking other holes in the story and questioning the motivations of many who were pushing it. The episode quickly ended the CBS career of Mapes, and eventually led to Rather’s departure from the network. In the midst of all of this, Klein, who worked for CBS from 1982 to 1999 , appeared on Fox’s O’Reilly Factor as a “Former CBS News Executive.” He defended his former employer’s work thusly: It’s an important moment, because you couldn’t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances, and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing what he thinks. Klein was right of course, but not in the way he thought. The guys in pajamas were right, and CBS, despite its “multiple layers of checks and balances,” was wrong. Klein’s appearance brought further visibility to an already-growing blogosphere, helping to spur further interest in alternative media, thus accelerating its growth. To name just one example: In August 2005, the Media Research Center started NewsBusters.org with the help of Matt Sheffield, who had been running RatherBiased.com. Without doubt, something like NewsBusters would have eventually appeared, but it’s pretty clear that the Rathergate episode, Klein’s arrogant and embarrassing statement, and other blogospheric debunkings of establishment media stories during the 2004 presidential campaign hastened NB’s arrival. There’s also little doubt that what happened in the fall of 2004 inspired thousands of others to try their hands at blogging. Many of them, to Jonathan Klein’s sure chagrin, have since become key alternative media contributors. That’s why today, as I blog (in street clothes), I say to Mr. Klein: “Thanks, big guy. We couldn’t have done it as quickly without you.” P.S. It’s also interesting that Mr. Klein’s “Pajamas Moment” is “somehow” not present at his Wiki entry . Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com .
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On Sunday, the season premiere of 60 Minutes will include an anticipated Scott Pelley report on the Ground Zero mosque. Will the story be pro-mosque, just like President Obama? The first clips displayed softballs of sympathy , that it should be seen as “a hub of culture, a hub of coexistence, a hub of bringing people together.” To underline the overwhelming sympathetic tilt of this program in the Obama era — especially all the Steve Kroft hope-and-change goo before the 2008 election — the MRC has a new special report called “Syrupy Minutes.” Here’s my executive summary: In the last five years, CBS’s 60 Minutes has become infamous for letting its left-wing ardor get way ahead of its journalistic mission. Dan Rather destroyed his own reputation in 2004 with a 60 Minutes II “expose” of President Bush’s incomplete Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard which relied on falsified documents. A CBS-appointed panel found “myopic zeal” in Rather’s professional demise, but no one would admit a political bias. For more than 40 years, CBS has boasted of 60 Minutes as a hard-hitting news show, a weekly story of investigative gumshoes digging up dirt and accusing major business and government leaders of committing dastardly deeds against the public interest. But the history of 60 Minutes isn’t filled to the brim with brutal investigations. It has a much softer, syrupy side, and it isn’t just reserved for movie stars or rock musicians. When it comes to champions of liberalism and even the radical left, the CBS News program has rolled out a red carpet, asking softball questions and lionizing their policy stands and programs – whether they were actually “achievements” or disasters. On September 19, a week before the new season officially began, CBS’s Lesley Stahl promoted the latest book of Jimmy Carter, and insisted that Carter was a bigger success than most presidents, including Ronald Reagan: “But when all is said and done, and many will be surprised to hear this: Jimmy Carter got more of his programs passed than Reagan and Nixon, Ford, Bush 1, Clinton or Bush 2.” Carter’s utter failure to end the Iranian hostage standoff and crushing inflation and unemployment rates were somehow irrelevant to history. Stahl also gushed to Carter: “A lot of critics of yours, when you were President, say that you’ve been a fantastic ex-President. You hear that all the time.” She said this even as she reminded viewers that Carter wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council telling them they should oppose the first President Bush on the need for the Gulf War. In studying 60 Minutes broadcasts from January 1, 2006 through the September 2010 season premiere, Media Research Center analysts have found a very biased pattern of soft interviews and promotional language for the American left: — Liberals were featured more than twice as often than conservatives, and were four times more likely to be awarded easygoing interviews. Since 2006, 60 Minutes has aired 35 interviews with liberal leaders and celebrities versus 17 with conservatives. Twenty-four of the 35 interviews with liberals (69 percent) were friendly and unchallenging. Only five of the 17 conservative segments (29 percent) were soft – and one unchallenged conservative was hammering Sarah Palin as utterly unqualified for national office.. — Barack Obama was a major beneficiary of 60 Minutes admiration. CBS has devoted hours of air time to the promotion of Barack Obama – five interviews before the election, and six after it, all reported by Steve Kroft. Of the 49 Kroft questions in the first four CBS interviews (before the financial crisis hit), 42 were personal or horse-race questions. Only seven focused on issues – five on foreign policy, and two on trade – with no real focus on any domestic issues. Kroft never focused a question on Obama scandals, or his record in the Illinois legislature. Even issue questions were soft and open-ended. Kroft’s interviews were even made into a DVD for nostalgic Obama supporters, Obama All Access . — Other candidates for president were not granted the same red carpet as Obama. The contrast was striking to Scott Pelley’s 2008 bailout interview with John McCain: “But why would you let the Wall Street executives sail away on their yachts and leave this on the American taxpayer?” Mike Wallace’s interview with Mitt Romney in 2007 was sharply personal, demanding to know if the Republican candidate had premarital sex with his wife and asking his five sons why none of them had ever joined the military. — Liberal journalists and celebrities were also celebrated, and conservative celebrities were hounded. Morley Safer championed Stephen Colbert for satirizing conservative talk show hosts and their “wildly inaccurate, but patriotic and combative noise…With all of their excesses, it was only a matter of time before someone came along to skewer them. Well, the eagle has landed.” Safer also felt the pain of actor Alec Baldwin having to deal with “conservative junkyard dogs like Sean Hannity.” But Mike Wallace confronted Bill O’Reilly: “You are addicted to the power, you are addicted to the money, you are addicted to the fact that ‘I am Bill O’Reilly, and everybody knows it.'” A review of the recent output of 60 Minutes should cause media historians to restrain themselves before declaring that this program is a hallmark of hard-hitting journalism, without a political axe to grind. They either carry an axe or a shoe-shine kit.
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Flying Pigs Alert! The gubernatorial campaign of Andrew Cuomo has such a poor credibility problem that even the local New York City CBS affiliate is asking: “Cuomo Caught Lying About Voting for Bloomberg?” And what caused such an aspersion to be cast upon Cuomo’s veracity? Check out this video in which Cuomo asserted that he voted for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. However, as the CBS affiliate pointed out , it didn’t happen: But for all his actions as the state’s chief law enforcement officer, Cuomo did have a little problem with telling the truth about his election box support for Mayor Bloomberg. “Have I voted for the mayor? Yes,” Cuomo said. Actually, he didn’t. The Cuomo campaign had to issue a clarification, saying he was only registered to vote in New York City in 2005 when he endorsed Democrat Fernando Ferrer. And this problem with the truth (lying) is yet another problem that Cuomo is now facing. Suddenly his race with conservative Republican Carl Paladino has become much closer as this same CBS affiliate has reported: There has been a dramatic development in the race for New York governor. A new poll has Republican Carl Paladino within striking distance of Democrat Andrew Cuomo as voters say they want to elect someone who will stop the circus in Albany. Wednesday was supposed to be Cuomo’s day as he picked up the endorsement of New York City’s notoriously independent mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in the race for governor. But a new poll changed that because it turned Cuomo’s once comfortable front-runner status on its head. … Only six points separate Cuomo and Paladino in the Quinnipiac University poll. Cuomo now leads 49-43, with a plus or minus error of 3.6. The poll was certainly a stunner for Team Paladino. At the last minute he bailed out of a press conference to take calls from new donors. “Suddenly his phone lit up with offers of financial resources. We cancelled his schedule and he’s in Buffalo returning telephone calls and having meetings so that we are able to take advantage of this rainstorm,” Paladino spokesman Michael Caputo said. So why would normally liberal CBS refer to Cuomo as “lying?” The theory of your humble correspondent is that Andrew Cuomo’s personality is so odiously thuggish that even people and groups that would usually support a liberal are turned off by him.
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Does he want to lose his job at MSNBC the way Donny Deutsch did ? Joe Scarborough seems to have a devil-may-care attitude towards criticizing his outspoken colleagues, liberal blowhards Ed Schultz and Keith Olbermann. Simply refer to past episodes here , here , here and here . While not mentioning them by name on today’s “Morning Joe,” Scarborough featured outlandish barbs from his colleagues Schultz and Olbermann as examples of what not to do in trying to “keep calm and carry on,” as the show was trying to preach to its viewers. For the second straight day, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” ran a segment titled “Keep Calm and Carry On” – Scarborough’s favored slogan of late, he even features in his profile picture on his Twitter account – dedicated to throwing water on the political fire created by the fringe Left and Right and promoting more calm, moderate, bipartisan candidates and positions. Tuesday’s segment featured a game show format where Joe and co-host Mika Brzezinski asked questions with obvious answers – for instance, does such-and-such rabid quotation by such-and-such talk show blowhard merit the label “Keep Calm and Carry On?” Scarborough’s second question began thus: “If you’re a liberal radio and TV talk show host, and your goal is to keep calm and carry on, do you say of a Republican politician who’s just had a life-threatening heart attack, quote, ‘We ought to rip his heart out, and kick it around, and stuff it back in his chest’?” That question referred to Ed Schultz’s nasty rant from this past February, where he derided conservatives for complaining that Dick Cheney’s recovery from his heart attack was being used as a political football for health care. “You’re damn right Dick Cheney’s heart is a political football,” Schultz ranted. “We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him. I’m glad he didn’t tip over. He is the new poster child for health care in this country.” Two questions later, Scarborough again used an MSNBC colleague’s words as an example of hate-speech. “If you’re a liberal cable host, and you want to keep calm and carry on, do you accuse the President of the United States, who happens to be a Republican, of being a fascist, and a liar, who urinates on the Constitution?” he asked columnist Mike Barnacle. That question referred back to Olbermann’s August, 2008 smear of President Bush’s administration as “urinating on the Constitution.” It seems quite fascinating that out of all the hate speech from liberal talk show hosts on radio and television, Scarborough chose to feature barbs from two of his colleagues. Then again, MSNBC isn’t exactly a harbor of calm and collected debate. A partial transcript of the segment, which aired on September 21 at 6:43 a.m. EDT, is as follows: JOE SCARBOROUGH: Calling out the “Professional Left” and the far-Right, a campaign of ours to kind of calm everybody down, because we find – and we found out in New Hampshire this past weekend, we’ve seen it everywhere from Maine down to South Alabama, to Florida, to Alabama, to West – Americans are tired of all the screaming and shouting, so we’re trying to encourage sort of the chattering classes – to keep calm, and carry on. A noble gesture, is it not? JON MEACHAM: Absolutely. I would expect nothing less. (…) SCARBOROUGH: Question: If you’re a liberal radio and TV talk show host, and your goal is to keep calm and carry on, do you say of a Republican politician who’s just had a life-threatening heart attack, quote, “We ought to rip his heart out, and kick it around, and stuff it back in his chest.” MIKA BRZEZINSKI: That’s a no-brainer, Willie. WILLIE GEIST: Life-threatening, or did it cost him his life? SCARBOROUGH: Life-threatening. He’s still alive – these guys aren’t very good at this. BRZEZINSKI: It’s a new game. GEIST: Yes. SCARBOROUGH: No. GEIST: You said “threatening.” SCARBOROUGH: “Life-threatening.” No, I’m sorry. (…) SCARBOROUGH: Question: For the t-shirt. If you’re a liberal cable host, and you want to keep calm and carry on, do you accuse the President of the United States, who happens to be a Republican, of being a fascist, and a liar, who urinates on the Constitution? Now Mike, I would suggest that “urinates on the Constitution,” as well as “liar” and “fascist,” would be a clue for you. MIKE BARNACLE: It is, it is, and I don’t need a lifeline for this one. Yes. (Pause) C’mon, give me the t-shirt. That was the right answer, wasn’t it? It happens all the time! SCARBOROUGH: It does happen all the time. We have, actually, some re-educating to do. BRZEZINSKI: We do.
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On Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez promoted singer Lady Gaga calling for an end to the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy: “A unique showdown shaping up today in the Senate…it’s Senator John McCain versus Lady Gaga. The Senator wants to keep the ban, but the world’s biggest pop star is throwing her support behind the gays who want to serve in the military.” Correspondent Michelle Miller noted of Gaga: “…recently she’s become more vocal with her political leanings, urging her Twitter followers – she has a record 6.4 million of them – to write their senators over ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.'” Miller concluded: “…the singer known for being out there, hopes her gay friends in the military will simply be allowed to be out.” Throughout the report, a headline on screen read: “Lady Gaga Vs. The Pentagon; Pop Star Takes On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy.” All the sound bites in the segment were in favor of overturning the policy, three from the pop singer herself and one from an outed gay soldier who escorted Gaga to MTV’s Video Music Awards. The only time given to the other side was after Miller’s report, when Rodriguez mentioned: “…the reason John McCain opposes this, he’s waiting for the results of that Pentagon study on how this repeal might impact the, you know, troops who are serving right now.” Here is a full transcript of the segment: 7:15AM ET MAGGIE RODRIGUEZ: A unique showdown shaping up today in the Senate over whether to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ it’s Senator John McCain versus Lady Gaga. The Senator wants to keep the ban, but the world’s biggest pop star is throwing her support behind the gays who want to serve in the military. CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Lady Gaga Vs. The Pentagon; Pop Star Takes On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy] LADY GAGA: Doesn’t it seem to be that ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is backwards? MICHELLE MILLER: Lady Gaga held court in a Portland, Maine park, calling for the repeal of the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. A controversial Senate vote is set for later today. GAGA: Doesn’t it seem to you that we should send home the prejudice? The straight soldier who hates the gay soldier! MILLER: Under the law created in 1993, more than 13,000 soldiers have been discharged. David Hall, who escorted Lady Gaga to last week’s Video Music Awards, says he’s one of them. DAVID HALL: A female cadet went to my commander, said I was gay. I made no comment. I was rated number one in my class, had a pilot slot, and then they discharged me just based off of what she said. MILLER: Lady Gaga is more known for selling 50 million singles and her outrageous outfits than for her political statements. But recently she’s become more vocal with her political leanings, urging her Twitter followers – she has a record 6.4 million of them – to write their senators over ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ The current law bans gay soldiers from serving, and forbids military leaders from asking about sexual orientation. Essentially encouraging gay troops to keep it secret. GAGA: I thought equality meant everyone. MILLER: 60 Votes are needed to avoid a filibuster and repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ the singer known for being out there, hopes her gay friends in the military will simply be allowed to be out. Michelle Miller, CBS News, Portland. RODRIGUEZ: I think it’s important to say John – the reason John McCain opposes this, he’s waiting for the results of that Pentagon study on how this repeal might impact the, you know, troops who are serving right now. SMITH: Right. And as serious as the subject may be, did it look like she had a fake nose on? RODRIGUEZ: I didn’t notice. SMITH: Okay.
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At the top of Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith proclaimed: “Angry Americans. A new report declares the recession officially over. But many of us are not feeling it. Even taking on the President himself.” Later, he seemed to portray the President as a victim: “…a lot of Americans are still suffering its [the recession’s] effects, and are taking it out on President Obama.” In a report that followed, correspondent Bill Plante noted how “numbers may be going in the right direction” but touted “frustrated” Obama supporters speaking out at a Monday CNBC town hall. In between clips of those voters, Plante sympathetically remarked: “On the defensive, the President responded by outlining some of his administration’s accomplishments, but admitted that things aren’t where they need to be.” He concluded the report: “So the reality is that improving statistics aren’t very convincing to voters who are worried about jobs, and that is the reality the President and his party face going into the November elections.” Introducing a brief report on the stock market reaction, co-host Maggie Rodriguez looked for a silver lining: “The average American may be skeptical about an economic recovery, but the reaction on Wall Street to the end of the recession shows that investors are optimistic.” Business and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis declared: “…yesterday, stocks responded positively to the news that it is now behind us. The Dow ended higher by 145 points, putting it on track for the best September in 71 years.” Smith later interviewed Obama economic advisor and new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Elizabeth Warren. He lobbed softballs to her, starting with: “…you’ve spent a good time of your professional career studying the middle class, and quite frankly, worrying about the middle class. As we get this kind of news that we got yesterday that the recession was over, so many people in the middle class are saying, ‘it doesn’t feel like it at my house.’ When do you think it might feel like it at our house?” A headline on screen read: “Anger Over the Economy; Despite Recession’s End, Americans Frustrated.” Smith fretted over Warren not being able to enforce enough new regulations on business: “Can these industries really be regulated? But regulated in a way that – I mean, there will be so much pressure from them for you to do as little as possible. This will be a giant tug-of-war in the days going forward, to see who really does get control.” Warren replied that her job was “to start pushing back,” adding “I intend to do it as hard as I can.” Only at the end of the interview did Smith touch on Warren’s controversial nomination process: “By charging you with creating this agency, is this the best compromise possible? Because a lot of people wanted you to head the agency, and they said, ‘well, you’re not confirmable.'” Smith did not challenge Warren on whether her backdoor appointment broke the administration’s promises of transparency. Here is a full transcript of the September 21 segment: 7:00AM ET TEASE: HARRY SMITH: Angry Americans. A new report declares the recession officially over. But many of us are not feeling it. Even taking on the President himself. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: I’m one of your middle-class Americans, and quite frankly, I’m exhausted. I’m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration. SMITH: We’ll talk live with one of President Obama’s closest economic advisers. 7:02AM ET SEGMENT: SMITH: Now to the economy. A new report says the ‘great recession’ is over. According to a nonprofit research group, the recession began in December of 2007, and ended in June of 2009. But a lot of Americans are still suffering its effects, and are taking it out on President Obama. Senior White House correspondent Bill Plante has more. Good morning, Bill. BILL PLANTE: Good morning, Harry. The numbers may be going in the right direction, but if there was any doubt that most of America doesn’t yet feel things improving, listen to what a frustrated voter had to say to President Obama at a CNBC town hall meeting. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Fed Up; Voters Confront Obama On Struggling Economy] UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: I’m one of your middle-class Americans, and quite frankly, I’m exhausted. I’m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now. I have been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. I’m one of those people, and I’m waiting, sir. I’m waiting. I don’t feel it yet. PLANTE: On the defensive, the President responded by outlining some of his administration’s accomplishments, but admitted that things aren’t where they need to be. BARACK OBAMA: As I said before, times are tough for everybody right now. So, I understand your frustration. But what I am saying is, is that we’re moving in the right direction. PLANTE: But the President knows that the only real answer is providing jobs. And that saying the recovery takes time doesn’t play well with voters. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: And what I’m really hoping to hear from you is several concrete steps that you’re going to take, moving forward, that will be able to re-ignite my generation. Re-ignite the youth who are beset by student loans. And I really want to know, is the American dream dead for me? OBAMA: Absolutely not. PLANTE: But that disillusionment is echoed on main street, on both sides of the aisle. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN B: I’ve been disappointed. Unbelievably disappointed. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Yeah, in what? WOMAN B: From both sides. I feel like nothing changes. And so there’s no point, really. Everything will stay the same. No matter what I do, I could for or against and it’ll stay exactly the same. PLANTE: So the reality is that improving statistics aren’t very convincing to voters who are worried about jobs, and that is the reality the President and his party face going into the November elections. Harry. MAGGIE RODRIGUEZ: I’ll take it here. Bill Plante, thank you very much. SMITH: Alright, Maggie. RODRIGUEZ: Thanks, Harry. The average American may be skeptical about an economic recovery, but the reaction on Wall Street to the end of the recession shows that investors are optimistic. Let’s go to CBS News business and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis, she’s at the New York Stock Exchange this morning. Good morning, Rebecca. REBECCA JARVIS: Good morning, Maggie. And we all know how much the ‘great recession’ battered down stocks. Well, yesterday, stocks responded positively to the news that it is now behind us. The Dow ended higher by 145 points, putting it on track for the best September in 71 years. But still, as we all know, the struggles on main street, they do persist, and we’re seeing that in the issues that the ‘great recession’ raised for all of us. It wiped out 7.3 million American jobs. 21% Of our net worth was wiped out between December of 2007, and June of 2009, the official end of the recession. And economists believe it will take significant amounts of time just to regain the pre-recession levels on the employment front. In fact, some economists believe it will take as long as 2013 just to get back to normal employment levels in this country. Another key in all of this is housing prices, and Wall Street will be watching a bunch of data this week on that. Maggie. RODRIGUEZ: Alright, Rebecca Jarvis at the stock exchange. Thank you, Rebecca. Back over to Harry. SMITH: Alright, Maggie. Joining us from Washington with more on how the White House plans to turn the economy around is the new head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Elizabeth Warren. Good morning. ELIZABETH WARREN: Good morning. SMITH: Let me ask you, before we get to the particulars of your job and the creation of this agency, I just want to ask you a philosophical question. Because you’ve spent a good time of your professional career studying the middle class, and quite frankly, worrying about the middle class. As we get this kind of news that we got yesterday that the recession was over, so many people in the middle class are saying, ‘it doesn’t feel like it at my house.’ When do you think it might feel like it at our house? [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Anger Over the Economy; Despite Recession’s End, Americans Frustrated] WARREN: Well, we have to remember that we have a problem in the middle class that didn’t just start in the fall of 2008. We have a problem that’s been under way for 30 years, of squeezing, chipping, hitting on the middle class. Flat wages, rising core expenses, families reached a point where they really couldn’t save, they turned to credit, and the credit industry has drained billions of dollars out of their pockets. So, it’s a – it’s going to take time to rebuild the middle class. I mean that – that really is part of the problem here. We’re starting now with this new credit, Consumer Credit Bureau, and that’s going to be one piece of it. I hope it’s going to patch a big hole in the bottom of the economic boat. But there’s still work to be done in a lot of areas. On wages, on housing, on student loans, on retirement security. It’s not just one thing that went wrong, and it’s not just one thing that’s going to fix it. SMITH: Can these industries really be regulated? But regulated in a way that – I mean, there will be so much pressure from them for you to do as little as possible. This will be a giant tug-of-war in the days going forward, to see who really does get control. WARREN: You know, I’m not a Washington person. I never really wanted a job here. I had this idea for this agency, and thought, that’s it, you know, other people will take care of it. The President asked me to come here, and to start to work immediately. Not to worry about titles, not to go through all that business, but to start to work to set up this agency, to start pushing back. And that’s exactly what I intend to do. And I intend to do it as hard as I can. SMITH: By charging you with creating this agency, is this the best compromise possible? Because a lot of people wanted you to head the agency, and they said, ‘well, you’re not confirmable.’ WARREN: You know, I don’t know the politics. But I don’t see this as a compromise at all. There was one option, and that was to go the confirmation route, and I’m told that would take about a year, during which I couldn’t do any work on the agency. And this is the part that amazes me, I wouldn’t be allowed to talk about it. Or, I could not have that title, and I could get to work right now. And so, I said to the President, I want to go to work right now. I don’t care what you call me. Let me go to work and let me try to help. And when I’m no longer any help, I’ll leave. SMITH: Elizabeth Warren, thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us this morning. WARREN: Thank you. SMITH: Do appreciate it. RODRIGUEZ: So important to point out that the organization that deemed the recession officially over also was very careful to say, it may be over, but the economy is not recovering. That was a ‘by the way’ that’s important, as Americans are realizing. SMITH: A slow recovery. Yeah, right. RODRIGUEZ: A slow recovery and we could still dip into another recession. Which we all hope won’t happen.
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