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Rebutting the Recovery



March 30, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

By Jeff Nielson, Bullion Bulls Canada

In the topsy-turvy world of U.S. “newsertainment”, it is common knowledge that comedian Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is one of Americans’ “most admired journalists”. Regrettably, the U.S. mainstream media has chosen to compete with Stewart…by producing comedy.

Their favorite front-man is famed stand-up comedian, B.S. Bernanke. Bernanke became famous for such immortal one-liners as “the Goldilocks economy”, “the soft landing”, “the exit strategy”, and his most oft-repeated joke: “the U.S. economic recovery.”

As is often the case with popular humor, “the U.S. economic recovery” has been repeated ad nauseum by the mainstream media. Inevitably, the joke quickly became boring, and is now just very, very annoying.

The U.S. recovery is like one of the Simpsons episodes featuring mythical daredevil “Captain Lance Murdock”. After performing one of his heroic stunts, and inevitably ending up with his shattered body in a crumpled heap, he shakily raises one hand to give the “thumbs up” sign, and then we hear in the background the announcer proclaim, “He’s all right!”

Observe the following crashes, and the “recoveries”(?) that followed:


However, even clever Simpsons’ humor ceases to be funny if one is forced to watch/listen to the same joke, day after day, for nearly three years; and the U.S. mainstream media is not nearly as clever/funny as the Simpsons.

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