Rush Limbaugh fabricated unemployment data to attack Obama (statistics, leader, economy)
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The same democrats who were howling at the moon when Bush was prez about the 5% unemployment rate are now making excuses for the 9+% rate that the great orator has created. It's quite amazing to watch.
Looks like '08 probably ended around 5.5% or a little higher off the monthly numbers posted. Of course it's all Bush's fault anyway so numbers don't really matter to the swooners.
Wow you really can't read, can you?
December 2008, in the chart you just quoted, shows 7.0%
Looks like '08 probably ended around 5.5% or a little higher off the monthly numbers posted. Of course it's all Bush's fault anyway so numbers don't really matter to the swooners.
7.0
December 2008. Come on, it's a simple table. You can READ, can't you?
...claiming that the president ” inherited … an unemployment rate of 5.7 percent.” On Monday, Hannity did Limbaugh one better, claiming that Obama “inherited unemployment at 5.6 percent.”
The problem, of course, is that both of these guys are just making up numbers out of whole cloth.
As we talked about last week, the unemployment rate wasn’t 5.6% when President Obama took office; it was 7.6% and climbing fast. Hannity got the second digit right, but given the context, it’s the first digit that matters. Political Animal - 2009 wasn’t that long ago
This is further proof that the right wing will buy anything that is spoonfed to them via Limbaugh and Hannity. There is not one issue that will not be blown out of proportion or out and out fabricated just to give Obama that elusive Waterloo that the right so badly wants to materialize. Thing is, you cannot keep the truth buried indefinitely as it eventually surfaces.
Regardless of a percentage point or two, the bottom line is that unemployment is significantly higher now than it was when Obama took office. The economy is no better off, and arguably even worse off-- even after he handed-out nearly a billion dollars to some of the very same corporations and banks and lending institutions that caused the mess in the first place.
I was watching CNN last night and they showed poll results that said 95% of Americans surveyed thought things were only going to get worse in the coming couple of years. (Look it up). This shows our country is now far more scared and shakey than when Obama took-up residence on Pennsylvania Ave.
Both the left and the right exaggerate and distort and spin the truth so as to make their respective points and justify their platforms to the voters. And it's not so much that the "right wing will buy anything spoonfed to them via Limbaugh and Hannity; it's that those guys ARE the right wing. One could just as easily and accurately state that the lefties will buy anything spoonfed to them by Alan Colmes and Bill Mahr and Juan Williams.
It's called "politics" amigo.
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These "Limbaugh said", "Hannity said", "Perry said", "Bachmann said", "Beck said" threads can get real boring, real fast.........
Most of them are just plain silly.
You know, they aren't silly. Not really. It's actually troubling when these lies are stated by commentators, and are spread as facts to the general population. Credibility is not a silly issue.
I agree that things can get overblown, but the internet provides an excellent venue for average Americans to hold political figures and commentators accountable for their actions. And deliberate inaccuracies in order to spin an agenda is an irresponsible action for which they should be held accountable.
Regardless of a percentage point or two, the bottom line is that unemployment is significantly higher now than it was when Obama took office. The economy is no better off, and arguably even worse off-- even after he handed-out nearly a billion dollars to some of the very same corporations and banks and lending institutions that caused the mess in the first place.
I was watching CNN last night and they showed poll results that said 95% of Americans surveyed thought things were only going to get worse in the coming couple of years. (Look it up). This shows our country is now far more scared and shakey than when Obama took-up residence on Pennsylvania Ave.
Both the left and the right exaggerate and distort and spin the truth so as to make their respective points and justify their platforms to the voters. And it's not so much that the "right wing will buy anything spoonfed to them via Limbaugh and Hannity; it's that those guys ARE thre right wing. One could just as easily and accurately state that the lefties will buy anything spoonfed to them by Colmes and Mahr and Juan Williams.
It's called "politics" amigo.
Percentage points actually reflect major changes when we are talking about unemployment or othe aspects of the economy.
That said, I think it bears noting that the performance of the economy is utterly dependent on perception. And there is a large and vocal group that is working hard to make sure that Americans continue to have the most negative perception of the economy. And they are doing that to serve their own political agenda. While doing harm to this country.
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