During a recent campaign event in Massachusetts, Hillary Clinton claimed that corporations and businesses don’t create jobs. The ensuing facepalms and ridicule were heavy, but CNBC and New York Times reporter John Harwood thinks the criticism is unwarranted:
flapdoodle about HRC job-creation remarks about as close to nothing as "much ado about nothing" gets.
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/PeeteySDee/status/526771676013674496
she's said it in various ways ("It Takes a Village") for 20 years. Dem saying corporate tax cuts won't create jobs hardly new @PeeteySDee
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 27, 2014
Fox News’ Brit Hume wasn’t having it:
@JohnJHarwood @PeeteySDee Please. She flatly said businesses don't create jobs. Went on to argue against business tax cuts. Nothing? Hardly.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 27, 2014
@JohnJHarwood @PeeteySDee Her plain meaning was that businesses don't create jobs. Don't think that's a familiar view of Dems or anyone else
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 27, 2014
Harwood kept trying:
her plain meaning was to give campaign speech slamming "trickle-down economics" as she/other Dems have done for years @brithume @PeeteySDee
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 27, 2014
Nice try, but no:
@JohnJHarwood @PeeteySDee Sorry John, no getting around: “Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.”
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 27, 2014
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