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As we knew: Trump's budget chief thinks Obama admin 'manipulated' jobs data
2017-03-14
[MSNBC] A great video montage made the rounds over the weekend showing Donald Trump, before he was elected president, talking about the unemployment rate. It’s a jarring video for a reason: the Republican not only dismissed the nation’s unemployment rate as “phony,” he acted as if only an idiot would believe the official data.

It was, to a very real extent, one of the core messages of his campaign: right-thinking people should listen to Trump and treat the unemployment rate as a ridiculous fiction. That is, until last week, when the GOP president and his team decided the phony number is now “real” – because Trump says so.

Obviously, this is absurd, but as it turns out, the president isn’t the only one saying nutty things about U.S. job data. Take the new director of Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, for example.
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  Believing MSNBC on this issue explains a lot about how the left got so blind sided in November.

At some point their propaganda hurts themselves and we seem to have passed that point.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-03-14 17:57  

#5  Yeah, I guess the leadership and the MSM would be lying bastards, and their drooling public 'bots would be the idiots I was referring to.
Posted by: gorb   2017-03-14 14:04  

#4  to admit otherwise would mean to say they were idiots.

No, to admit otherwise would mean they are lying bastards who are deceiving the public.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2017-03-14 11:49  

#3  Of course it was manipulated.

How do you explain the disconnect between "unemployment" of 10% and "employment" of 67%?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-03-14 11:41  

#2  Obviously, this is absurd, but as it turns out, the president isn’t the only one saying nutty things about U.S. job data.

The news for the last eight or so years has been full of statements like this. The MSM is so invested in this that to admit otherwise would mean to say they were idiots.
Posted by: gorb   2017-03-14 11:18  

#1  MSNBC - 'nuff said.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-03-14 01:49  

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