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Most Americans "Very Satisfied" With Their Personal Lives

But you won't hear about it from the media.

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Jan 02, 2008
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by Rod D. Martin
January 1, 2008

The leftist media doesn't just hate George Bush: it constantly tells us how terrible everything is in our country (e.g., it's breathless reporting of Bill Clinton's insanely dishonest contention that the economy in 1992 was "the worst economy in 50 years"), unless of course a Democrat is in the White House, in which case that same Bill Clinton could probably have raped a goat on the White House lawn and seen his approval ratings go up "because the economy is so good."

Could there be some bias here?

Well, regardless of your opinion on that (and six straight years of an unbelievably strong Bush economy without any meaningful acknowledgment of same by the press would indicate there might be at least a little), the American people aren't buying it.

Despite an unending media drumbeat of "the sky is falling", one which certainly shows up in polls about how people feel about the economy overall, a new Gallup poll finds that "more than 8 in 10 Americans say they ar…

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