WSJ Manipulation at Work Again

This WSJ article about faith in politicians is highly un-balanced. While it talks repeatedly about the "sins" of too much government, it barely mentioned the overwhelming role that deregulation played in the current downturn mess.

Here's an example of their manipulation:

"This week the New York Post carried a report that 1.5 million people had left high-tax New York state between 2000 and 2008, more than a million of them from even higher-tax New York City."

The implication made here and later in the article is that they left mostly because of taxes. However, they never justify that with a reason-for-leaving survey, etc. Maybe they left simply because they don't like crowds. WSJ simply runs with the tax-reason assumption. The WSJ does this often, as do most Murdoch-owned outlets. They either lack self-critical thinking, or are purposely duping readers with sales techniques such as pretending like something is already a fact when no such fact has been established by the brochure. They are not "serious" news.