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tularetom

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2. If the administration COULD fake these job numbers

Reply to ProfessionalLeftist (Original post)

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 06:35 PM

Oct 2012

don't you think they might have done it a few months ago when the President was hurting in the polls?

Why wait until now?

These people really don't inhabit the same universe that most of us do.

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Media Dismiss Drop In Unemployment Rate As Government "Propaganda" [View all] ProfessionalLeftist Oct 2012 OP

Because they need the "horse race" and it doesn't fit their racist agenda. nt BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #1

If the administration COULD fake these job numbers tularetom Oct 2012 #2

If they can fake the job numbers, why don't they fake all the other economic indicators? NYC Liberal Oct 2012 #8

From where we have been led by the media we should not trust what they say still_one Oct 2012 #3

NBC's Nightly News opened w/ this tonight, even discrediting Romney for saying today that the jenmito Oct 2012 #4

'Media figures' should talk to Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics, elleng Oct 2012 #5

CNN's Ali Velshi says the unemployment numbers are largely meaningless on a spot basis. what Gabi Hayes Oct 2012 #6

Wait! This report disrupts our scripted horse race! porphyrian Oct 2012 #7

Exactly Aerows Oct 2012 #9

... porphyrian Oct 2012 #10

So, does this mean we should say nothing at all about mid-2004? HughBeaumont Oct 2012 #11