Mr. Speaker, to my left is the Media Fairness Caucus' Newsweek Wall of Shame, a collection of the magazine's very biased cover articles. Previous covers have featured Vice President Al Gore with the caption, ``The Thinking Man's Thinking Man''; President Obama with the caption, ``Yes, He Can''; and Vice President Joe Biden, ``A Vice President to be Reckoned With.'' This week's cover reads, ``America's Back! The Remarkable Tale of our Economic Turnaround''. Apparently Newsweek hasn't heard that the unemployment rate remains close to 10 percent, with 16 million Americans unemployed, that personal income has fallen over 3 percent since President Obama took office, and that the President's budget doubles the national debt in 5 years and triples it in 10. The only way to bring America back is to reverse the administration's policies of higher taxes, runaway spending, government takeovers, and record debt. Newsweek should report the facts on the economy, not provide free and false advertising for the Obama administration. ____________________
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