The San Francisco Chronicle opens an editorial today with this line:

On Jan. 20, President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress will have their hands full with two wars and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression.

By what measure is that statement true? Has every lefty “journalist” in America forgotten, or do they purposely wish us to forget, the Carter years? By what objective numerical measure is the current economy worse than the economy of the late 1970s? Democrat politicians routinely call the economy under any Republican “the worst since Herbert Hoover.” Bill Clinton did it, Gore did it, Kerry did it, and Obama did it. It’s the job of the press to call them on this nonsense, but instead they aid and abet the revisionism by simply repeating the partisan talking points.

On Meet the Press this morning, veteran journalist Tom Brokaw regurgitated an old nutroots talking point in a question to President-elect Barack Obama about his appointment of General Eric Shinseki to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs:

BROKAW: He’s [Shinseki] the man who lost his job in the Bush Administration because he said we will need more troops in Iraq than Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld thought we would need at that time.

But Shinseki did not “lose his job”, he retired as scheduled. Don’t they have any staff to do basic fact-checking at NBC News? An intern maybe? Anyone? NBC News is thoroughly untrustworthy.