AP Reports Erroneously Make It Look Like Perry Takes Full Personal Credit For Texas Job Creation
When I first saw a brief Associated Press report asserting that Rick Perry, at an event in Des Moines, Iowa today claimed, in AP's words, that “he's created 1 million jobs while governor of Texas,” I thought to myself, “Wow, that's a pretty egotistical thing to say — as if he did it all by himself.” Then I remembered that I was reading an AP report. Of course Perry didn't say that, and, oddly enough (no, not really), a longer AP report proves it. First, here's the opening half of the unbylined shorter item (bolds are mine): Perry blasts Obama, notes own job-creating record Texas Gov. Rick Perry blasted President Obama's handling of the economy and says his own record of creating jobs qualifies him for the White House. Perry told nearly 400 activists that he's created 1 million jobs while governor of Texas , all during a stretch where the nation was losing 2.5 million jobs. Perry says he'll take a record of cutting taxes and regulation to Washington and says the Texas rebound proves that it works. It turns out that the shorter item is a brief synopsis of a longer story
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on August 27, 2011. Filed under