Rush Limbaugh fabricated unemployment data to attack Obama (unemployment rate, brainwash, Michigan)
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...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.
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Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7
2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
2005 5.2 5.4 5.2 5.1 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.8
2006 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.8 4.7 5.0
2008 4.9 4.8 5.1 5.0 5.5 5.5 5.7 6.1 6.1 6.5 6.7 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.
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.
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