ThinkProgress has a "Daily Grill" item [found on the "Progress Report" page], which highlights a [generally conservative] quote and compares it to reality ~ ~ here's today's gem ~ Sooz

DAILY GRILL

"[J]obs are not being saved or created."
-- Fox News' Glenn Beck, 12/02/09

VERSUS

"CBO estimates that in the third quarter of calendar year 2009, an additional 600,000 to 1.6 million people were employed in the United States, and real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) was 1.2 percent to 3.2 percent higher, than would have been the case in the absence of [the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act]."
-- The Congressional Budget Office, 11/01/09

Here's today's gem ~ Sooz


DAILY GRILL

"[O]nly 8 percent of the [Obama White House] senior appointees have a private sector background."
-- Fox News' Newt Gingrich, 12/02/09

VERSUS

"[I]f you examine a larger group of senior Obama administration appointees, you'll find that more than one in four have experience as business executives."
-- PolitiFact.com, 12/02/09

i am not even understanding the accusation. without comparison and context the remarks are meaningless.

yeah- but how does private sector experience impact performance? has that ever been analyzed?