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Home Front: Politix
PBS host Gwen Ifill lectures Elkhart, Indiana
2016-06-02
[Gateway Pundit] Less than a minute into her town hall event with Barack Obama PBS host Gwen Ifill lectured Elkhart, Indiana for not giving the country’s worst economic president since the Great Depression more credit for the town’s recovery.
I blame the Winnebago disconnect.
Barely a minute into Wednesday’s PBS town hall event with President Barack Obama, PBS NewsHour co-host Gwen Ifill took a few digs at the hard working white people of Elkhart, Indiana where the event was being held for not giving Obama "any credit" for their unemployment drop to the point that she exclaimed: "What gives?"

The town hall, which was designed to have the President take questions from the audience, began with Ifill explaining that Wednesday’s visit to Elkhart by the President was his "fifth visit to the once and again R.V. Capital of the world, a small city where the unemployment rate hit 19.6 percent his first year in office, and now has dropped to about four percent."

Taking into no consideration things that the townspeople or local and state governments may have done to improve business, Ifill went right to wondering why "this White House isn’t get any credit for that turnaround."
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  ...and entertainment figures. Everybody has got to have a hobby.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-06-02 17:46  

#11  JQC I am thinking slow suicide by demon rum and prescription drugs amongst the marginal middle class.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-06-02 13:56  

#10  "B" you can add a 10th chart to the 9, the death rate. It has increased for the first time in a decade. The increase is attributed to drug overdose deaths. Probably due to a permissive attitude from D.C. about drugs (as well as some other reasons).
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-06-02 13:39  

#9  Gwen Ifill, Pro-Obama Author, Debate Moderator

willing paid whore for the cause
Posted by: Frank G   2016-06-02 12:38  

#8  "You didn't build that!"
Posted by: charger   2016-06-02 12:18  

#7  Obama recovery in just 9 charts. Zero Hedge link.

Posted by: Besoeker   2016-06-02 11:04  

#6  I understand firearm and ammo manufacturers have been doing record business.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-06-02 10:44  

#5  Exactly what did the "great one" accomplish to help anyone get a real 40 hour a week job? Anywhere?

Other than the federal job boom, all we see are the 30 hour a week jobs.
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-06-02 10:27  

#4  I recall that Elkhart had a sizeable KKK membership back in the day. Gwen wasn't necessarily on neutral ground.
Posted by ElziverKnaggs


I suspect you're on to something Elziver, racist southern cities, etc. but perhaps not totally in alignment with your thinking.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-06-02 09:54  

#3  Hmmm. I recall that Elkhart had a sizeable KKK membership back in the day. Gwen wasn't necessarily on neutral ground.

I'm not going to let this one slip by. Just what are you implying about the good people of Elkhart today, ElziverKnaggs?

You see, racism was everywhere in this country back in the days of the KKK. We had it in the American South, in Elkhart, in New York, Chicago, Boston, DC, and in the West. It was everywhere. It was pervasive. You couldn't get away from it for a moment. Is that your point?

We don't have it everywhere today. People of Elkhart, the South, and elsewhere are a lot better about race relations. We aren't perfect by any means, but today you have people of every race working together, sharing neighborhoods, public accommodations and the vote. The only group in this country that is still obsessed with race are the progressive Democrats.

So I'm not sure, ElziverKnaggs: are you a troll? A moby? An idiot? Just maladroit? Or perhaps you're an unpaid volunteer for either the Clinton or Sanders campaign?

Why don't you clarify that for me in a new comment in this thread?

AoS (moderator)
Posted by: ElziverKnaggs   2016-06-02 09:49  

#2  Just an hours drive west....."What gives?"

ABC Eyewitness News: Chicago Crime: 66 Killed In 318 Shootings; 397 Total Victims Shot in May
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-06-02 09:47  

#1  Gwen feels obliged to support one of her own--a liberal Democrat that is.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-06-02 09:42  

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