Comments on: Unexpectedly, AP hammers Obama administration on jobless report

By: Pickerhead :: Pickings from the Webvine ::January 11, 2010

Pickerhead :: Pickings from the Webvine ::January 11, 2010 — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:11:29 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey comments on an AP unemployment article that pulls no punches. For a while, the Associated Press seemed determined to make “unexpected” and its variants the most overused term in economic reporting. Today, they give their readers an unexpected shock by dropping the forced sense of optimism normally used in giving bad economic news in their analysis of today’s jobless report. Instead, Christopher Rugaber reports the obvious — that the loss of 85,000 more jobs is nothing but bad news, and that the 10.0% figure hides the rot underneath: [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Porkulus saved or created two million jobs now

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:45:15 +0000

[...] what? The economy lost 85,000 jobs in December, numbers announced less than a week ago. Job creation isn’t following — [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Jobless rate really at 22%?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Jobless rate really at 22%? — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:56:04 +0000

[...] AP gave us a media watershed moment last Friday when it, er, unexpectedly gave a full report on the fact that the joblessness rate [...]

By: Haiku Guy

Haiku Guy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:44:40 +0000

Ah my friend-where was your victory garden?
Why weren’t you spending your time growing & canning & preserving your own food?
It’s where it’s going.
Only the hunter gather lifestyle will be possible soon.

Badger40 on January 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM

I’m trip’ling my plot
For vegetables this Spring.
No space for flowers…

By: alohapundit

alohapundit — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:46:33 +0000

For all fans of the “Redhead on a Cellphone Standing in Line” picture that Ed and AP love to use. Fear not! She has a job now: here Pause it at :11 and you'll see her.

By: tartan

tartan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:38:46 +0000

Good thing Bush is gone. Why I’d hate to have unemployment at levels we had during his 8 years.

Oh wait…

angryed on January 8, 2010 at 1:36 PM

By: Unemployment Outlook: The AP Says Gloomy | Patriotic Dissent

Unemployment Outlook: The AP Says Gloomy | Patriotic Dissent — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:28:48 +0000

[...] Unexpectedly, AP hammers Obama administration on jobless report Lack of confidence in the economic recovery led employers to shed a more-than-expected 85,000 net jobs in December even as the unemployment rate held at 10 percent. The rate would have been higher if more people had been looking for work instead of leaving the labor force because they can’t find jobs. [...]

By: Dr. ZhivBlago

Dr. ZhivBlago — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:42:16 +0000

These MSM types are just upset that their bottom lines are hurting and they can only figure that it’s because of the economy.

They have yet to realize that they’re going down even if the economy does improve because millions of us are onto and tired of their propaganda, lies, omissions and obfuscations.

By: scotash

scotash — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:34:11 +0000

In late 2008 – early 2009, I watched in horror as Obama deliberately tanked the stock market day after day running up to and after his inauguration. All I could think was, stop opening your mouth you saboteur! Are you trying to crash the stock market on purpose?

Then I realized, yes, yes Obama was trying to crash the market. His chief of staff Rahm Immanuel was quoted saying “never waste a good crisis.” So they manufactured one.

All of this was by design.

By: chris999

chris999 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:40:56 +0000

That same poor girl in the picture has been standing in line for months! “Obama’s killin me. And my unemployment comp is running out”. Pretty soon she’s going to move into the “no longer looking” category.

By: Wow! AP Picks Up On Obama's Bush Obsession | The Lonely Conservative

Wow! AP Picks Up On Obama's Bush Obsession | The Lonely Conservative — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:39:59 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey finds the criticism of Obama by an AP reporter “unexpected.” It looks like Obama isn’t measuring up to their expectations, or at least not the expectations of Ben Feller. He’s picked up on Obama’s obsession with George W. Bush, and his inability to stop blaming Bush for anything and everything. He says “the buck stops with me,” but nearly a year into office, President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation’s troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush. [...]

By: The number Democrats should fear the most « Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:31:41 +0000

[...] that the hope that propelled Obama to the Presidency is no longer held by millions of people who are too discouraged to seek [...]

By: Purple Avenger

Purple Avenger — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:24:12 +0000

Charles Gibson just emailed me. He says he’s never heard of any decline.

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:59:29 +0000

The Democrat campaign slogan for 2012 will be:
“Elect us again, so we can finish cleaning up Bush’s mess”.

By: dogsoldier

dogsoldier — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:02:36 +0000

Here is one I found yesterday:

I call this “How to cook the books or how to make the numbers come out “uhhhhhhnexpectedly” ”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Economy-sheds-85000-jobs-in-rb-3785494434.html?x=0&.v=2

FTA:

November payrolls were revised to show the economy actually added 4,000 jobs rather than losing 11,000, as initially reported, breaking a streak of 22 consecutive monthly losses, the Labor Department’s report on Friday showed.

With revisions to October, however, the economy lost 1,000 more jobs than previously estimated over the October-November period and the stable unemployment rate in December reflected a surprisingly large number of discouraged jobseekers leaving the labor force.

December’s payrolls plunge was much worse than what economists had expected. Wall Street had forecast a flat reading and a tick up in the unemployment rate to 10.1 percent.

The U6 number did in fact tick up but the U3 number they all like to use stayed the same. Note: They’re tinkering with the U6 number also, but its still closer to reality at 17.3%

They “expect” unemployment to remain high for all of 2010. Which makes sense considering the poisonous environment the libturds created and maintain.

But how could they ever not make it so? None of them ever held a damn job in their lives.

By: December’s Unemployment Report: There’s no sunshine when your gone. « The Western Experience

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:52:39 +0000

[...] over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey (via Innocent Bystanders) has provided a chart graphing the declining employment situation the country has been facing since Jan [...]

By: TheMightyMonarch

TheMightyMonarch — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:12:28 +0000

The FED and the Treasury are doing everything in their power to “feed the pig” in this FALSE MARKET with your ~~tax dollars~~ more T-Bills.

FIFY.

By: 1/9/2010 Update « President Obama

1/9/2010 Update « President Obama — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:58:38 +0000

[...] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Unexpectedly, AP hammers Obama … [...]

By: docdave

docdave — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:41:01 +0000

I think Steele will be out as RNC head by the beginning of the week.
lorien1973 on January 8, 2010 at 1:18 PM

Palin as RNC head has a nice ring to it. I know I’m just dreaming.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:22:38 +0000

Unexpected? I don’t think there was any poster here at HA (save for trolls) who expected people to start getting back to work. For the trolls: America will get back to work when we eject the democrats from power, and then ONLY if Republicans act like conservatives.

Revolt against the national socialists!

By: cntrlfrk

cntrlfrk — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:19:38 +0000

I really wish there were more people on the right explaining WHY we are losing jobs.

Congress, with Health Care meddling, Carbon Taxing, and other Global Warming Hysteria crap have small and large businesses scared to add employees, or expand anything.

The new mantra from the right should be “DO IT WITHOUT WASHINGTON!!!”

By: TN Mom

TN Mom — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:28:01 +0000

Obama & Democrats wouldn’t know how to create (or save) jobs if you gave them $728 BILLION and called it a Stimulus Bill… Oh. Wait.

By: daesleeper

daesleeper — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:55:47 +0000

Obama’s Legacy.

By: Django

Django — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:57:00 +0000

Lets see;

- Tax cuts expiring,
- Health care,
- Cap and Trade,
- New regulations,
- EPA,
- Financial regulations,
- Over reaching government,
- Bankrupt states needing to raise taxes

Hmmm, I have no idea why employers aren’t hiring.

LifeTrek on January 8, 2010 at 4:36 PM

It’s astounding, isn’t it? “Duh, I wonder what could be wrong?” Reality doesn’t exist – “We all agree that up is down and that the sun comes up in the west.”

There are no adults at the helm in Washington, DC, or in the Beltway for that matter.

By: Saltysam

Saltysam — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:33:11 +0000

BleedsBlue…where for art thou?

Bishop on January 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM

Bled out