Just caught Steve Leesman (Leisman?) on CNBC. He was going through some flip charts. He got to his "big question" about whether anyone will come clean on the status of the US's financial situation. The point that he was trying to make was that we're spending too much for the amount of taxes taken in. But as he used the see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil chimps to make his point, he ignored the history of the past 7 years and proclaimed that Democrats "see no end to spending programs". Huh? Did he sleep through the 6 years of having a Republican President and Republican Congress? They've been the biggest spending governmental machine in history.
He portrayed the Republicans as wanting to continue to cut taxes. No other context, like Democrats wanting to shift tax cuts to the people who will spend the money (like the middle and lower classes, thereby generating more economic activity) or that the tax cuts Republicans favor target upper income people who tie up the money in personal bank accounts.
I would expect this level of simplistic evaluation from Charlie Gasparino, but I was surprised to see this level of shallowness from Leesman (Leisman?).