Rule No. 1 of a lazy writer: He tells you what so-and-so said, but doesn't show you. So here, readers had to take Schiller's word for it that Obama claimed "today's economy" is the worst since the Great Depression. Normally, if a writer builds an entire column around what somebody said, the writer, y'know, actually quotes that somebody. But not Schiller.
And not the members of the Loon Brigade. That's Doug Gibbs' #1 tactic.
I don't think they are necessarily lazy.. they are lying fucks. If they had the actual information to make their point with, don't you think they'd use it?
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