Political Grapevine: 11/11

" And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine Tuesday we reported how political correctness is shading media coverage of the shootings. At -- hook. Now the culture and media institute has some numbers to back that up. He found that the Muslim faith of accused shooter major Nadal whose son. I had been mentioned in just 29%. Of the evening news reports on the broadcast networks. 93% of the stories did not mention terror or terrorism until President Obama hinted that connection during Tuesday's memorial service. Overall the networks referenced a possible link to terrorism just seven times in 48 reports. There's another report showing figures for jobs saved or created from the stimulus to be widely exaggerated. Massachusetts received nearly four billion dollars in stimulus funds and reported more than 12000 jobs affected. Boston Globe reports one state college claimed 160 full time jobs from 77000. Dollars in stimulus money. A spokesman for the school says the actual number of new jobs was -- fat in fact. Almost zero. In other instances federal money that recipients already took in annually was reclassified as stimulus money. And existing jobs were attributed to recovery funds. The San Diego union Tribune editorial board writes quote. This is a scandal and should be treated as such it appears to reflect the decision to distort government data collection to support explicitly political agenda this. And Florida Republican governor Charlie crest might have some explaining to do emails obtained by a Florida newspaper show the governor's aides knew. About president Obama's visit to Florida last month. Though Chris previously told reporters twice that he was unaware of the trip. The newspaper reports the White House provided an itinerary and invitation prior to the trip. But that Chris executive assistant said the governor would be unable to attacked. Chris isn't tough bid for the US senate in Florida has been trying to distance himself from the president and the student."