Pathetic

This today from the liberal Associated Press, in an attempt to spin a story to favor their agenda:

"AP - The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak with January's unexpected decline in the unemployment rate, which fell to 9.7 percent from 10 percent as more people said they had jobs"

Yes, the "unemployment rate" dropped to 9.7%. But not because anyone "said they had jobs". In truth, no one even ASKED. The reason the rate fell even though 22,000 more first-timers signed up for benefits is because so many others dropped off as their benefits expired. Several months ago Congress extended benefits for millions, but those extensions are ending.

NOTE: The unemployment rate is NOT the actual percentage of people out of work. It only represents those who are out of work and still collecting benefits. Once an unemployed person stops collecting, he is no longer counted as unemployed even though he may still be out of work.

But the problem with the story as presented by the AP is simply that they are trying to make it look as though people who were no longer collecting benefits were contacted and "said they had jobs". That did not happen. As usual, the AP, ever in the pocket of progressives, is using its power to brainwash the folks and shore up the sagging poll numbers of the current administration.

And THAT is the story here.

Add that to Obama saying yesterday that we, the people need to listen more to him and stop watching the news on cable. Yeah, sure. Of course he does not want us getting the news on cable - the truth is killing him! He would prefer to co-opt the entire conversation, and that you only get his side of things. This, from the man who told 22 blatant lies in his State of the Union message (as proved by Factcheck.org).

Strange, considering during the Bush years these same progressives like Obama were saying dissent was the purist act of democracy. Now that the dissent is working against them, it is suddenly a bad thing.

What a joke these people have become.

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