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Topic: Media Jobs Distorters Worse Than Truthers |
Media Jobs Distorters Worse Than Truthers
Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 10/7/2012 5:54:21 AM
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| Predictably, skeptics about the federal jobs numbers released yesterday are being labeled as “jobs truthers” in many quarters. Those alleging a flat-out conspiracy are being treated as nutcases. As Politico notes, even some Republicans are trying to throw cold water on the theories being floated that assert the unemployment rate is only declining because of an effort to cook the figures to benefit President Obama. The skeptics, like former GE CEO Jack Welch and Rep. Alan West, are taking a beating in the press. Though the dip in unemployment is both anomalous in terms
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
steveW, 10/7/2012 5:59:17 AM (No. 8915323)
Nutcase = any journalist doing 4 years of cover-up for president Jim Jones.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Maybeth, 10/7/2012 6:17:54 AM (No. 8915339)
After the debate totally exposed Obama as the Empty Suit of the Oval Office, his planners suddenly produced miraculous numbers in employment statistics. It was a 'wow moment' to behold.
Unfortunately, Obama is now viewed more as an example from Aesop's Fables than as a world leader. He has called wolf too many times to be believable about ANYthing any more.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
uno_thatguy, 10/7/2012 6:30:12 AM (No. 8915347)
Those numbers are a flat out lie!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
miceal, 10/7/2012 6:44:10 AM (No. 8915359)
What #3 said and I don't give a rats patootie what anyone calls me either...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bmw50, 10/7/2012 6:55:04 AM (No. 8915368)
Do the math. To drop the unemployment numbers by .3% requires an addition of over 400,000 people added to the workforce. The Dept of Labor says there were 114,000 added.
Somebody is lying! And guess who it is... again.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pineledger, 10/7/2012 7:37:25 AM (No. 8915413)
Jim Jones is the perfect analogy.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 10/7/2012 8:13:31 AM (No. 8915468)
IF there is a tick up in the economy, it is due to back to school, off to college or early Christmas shopping. Nothing the idiot in the wh did.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
4freedom, 10/7/2012 8:34:50 AM (No. 8915507)
If Romney gets elected you will see the unemployment numbers shoot up to 11 - 12% unexpectedly of course.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LZK, 10/7/2012 8:40:54 AM (No. 8915520)
The media can "spin" all they want -- but -- the "real" folk out here are hurting -- big time....
THEY know the real numbers.
No one believes the goooooberment anymore. The numbers have been massaged and manipulated in regards to the obamacare mess, the pork and trade, the census, the tax and the BO's polls numbers.
No one believes the media anymore.....
LZK
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 10/7/2012 8:41:14 AM (No. 8915523)
Many of us predicted months ago that the unemployment numbers would miraculously improve just prior to the election. Aside from the fact that Team Chicago is in charge, the method of producing these numbers (telephone survey) makes it absurdly easy to do so, and do it without a verifiable trace. So they can now be indignant about anyone's claim of fraud, and know that nobody has a means to refute their phony numbers.
They are masters at last minute games of deception.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mazeman, 10/7/2012 9:03:46 AM (No. 8915556)
In terms of being fed lies, I now know what it feels like to have lived in the Soviet Union.
If Obama wins, pass the vodka.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 10/7/2012 9:06:26 AM (No. 8915560)
You'll have to overlook my racism as I file this one under "Who saw this one coming?"
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 10/7/2012 9:07:58 AM (No. 8915566)
I saw somewhere in the Drudge Report that the supposed 7.8% figure comes from the labor department conveniently adding in a 586,000-block of part-time temporary service jobs.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
WimeTarmerFable, 10/7/2012 10:00:47 AM (No. 8915655)
The PT jobs at little over minimum wage aren't close to bringing INCOME back to where people can even cover the price of gasoline and food...let alone pay mortgage payments and save for retirement. This is all prop-a-Ganda for The Won, as we know, but the new wave of layoffs due to the robbery of what money the populace has left by the Feds beginning in January will essentially finish the job...any moron can see that!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 10/7/2012 10:02:17 AM (No. 8915659)
As the Church Lady used to say, How Con-VEN-ient!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
cgood, 10/7/2012 11:15:37 AM (No. 8915808)
No one can look at the numbers and believe that they are accurate. The verifiable report from businesses showed 114,000 jobs added. The so-called survey of 60,000 households determined that more than 800,000, almost 900,000, jobs were magically added!. The two widely disparate numbers were combined to give us the drop in unemployment, during a month that always sees that number go up.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
John318, 10/7/2012 1:32:45 PM (No. 8916085)
Name calling is one of the liberals key defences. It's called the "ad hominem" argument. In other words, dismiss the other party as not even worth listening to. What else would you expect.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
dman, 10/7/2012 2:28:37 PM (No. 8916183)
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics." We're not "nuts", we're just paying attention.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
NotaBene, 10/7/2012 3:04:02 PM (No. 8916235)
Obama lies.
We all know these numbers are false. Walk about your nearest strip mall and count the closed storefronts. How many Help Wanted signs have you seen?
The problem with this is that it is Federal Government bureaucracy has been corrupted to service Obama. These statistics come from the Department of Labor so there are many accomplices.
A similar thing happened in Science. The Global Warming hoax is proclaimed as true, even by Federal agencies.
We must vote these liars out.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TX_blanke, 10/7/2012 4:05:44 PM (No. 8916323)
I am really having a difficult time with the general tone of posts on this topic. I don't know why this group of people are so unable to see Obama's intended cause and effect. Back in July or early August sometime this administration announced that it would no longer require people receiving federal aid to look for work. Thus, huge numbers of people quit looking for work. Now, the federal government does not have to count them in the unemployment rate. The rate takes a precipitous drop just in time to influence the elections. It has been a very straight line for me to follow. It also gives the government employees the "cover" to say that they did not do anything wrong or cook any books.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Reilly, 10/7/2012 5:02:38 PM (No. 8916422)
Don't forget the Federal Reserve easing last month. Time to take down the New York / Washington nexus.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 10/7/2012 5:13:38 PM (No. 8916437)
A newsperson on television described what constitutes "work" in the household employment survey: 50,000 householders are surveyed; they are asked whether they have a job; if they respond that they collect cans or bottles for the deposit, or sell stuff on e-bay, that constitutes a job. The results of the survey sample are then extrapolated onto the US population as a whole.
So, if the newsperson on TV was correct, we are a nation of trash pickers and used goods sellers.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
lencu255, 10/7/2012 8:18:28 PM (No. 8916713)
media-shmedia... of course they are in deep doo-doo. They completely belong to the leftist cabal, and whoever honest people there are, are grinding their teeth, suck it up and swallow. What else can they do if they want to get their paychecks. But going to five morning shows and lying about benghazi - this is selling your soul to the devil! But my major point was - until we have proletariat dictatorship with obozo-like leader, media will be like that. It is not actually a media; it is part of propaganda department.
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