By
Tom Blumer NewsBusters
Obama’s Inflated Jobs Claim
In a new TV ad, President Obama makes an inflated claim to have added
5.2 million new jobs. The total added during his time in office is
actually about 325,000.
In the ad, the president says “over 5 million new jobs” while the
figure “5.2 million” appears on screen. But that’s a doubly misleading
figure.
Viewers would need to pay close attention to the on-screen graphic to
know that the ad refers only to employment gains starting in March 2010,
omitting the 4.3 million jobs that were lost in the first year of
Obama’s term.
And there’s no way a viewer would know that the total counts only
private-sector jobs, omitting continuing losses in government
employment.
There is nothing the Left believes in more robotically than the stupidity of conservatives. Otherwise, they would not be conservatives. When liberals get routed in an election, they do not question themselves. The first, and for most, only verdict is that the American people were disastrously flooded by a tsunami of stupidity and misinformation.
So it’s not surprising that left-wing bloggers would rejoice when they can write the headline “New Study Proves That Fox News Makes You Stupid.” That’s the Daily Kos headline. According to them, Fox News is “deliberately misinforming their viewers” to help Republicans, who “benefited from the ignorance Fox News helped to proliferate,” as voters “based their decisions on demonstrably false information.”
The liberal pranksters masquerading as pollsters at the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) are at it again. In a new survey, they claim that those who watched Fox News Channel on a daily basis were significantly more likely to believe in “misinformation.” But how is that word defined? Look at the details and you will be floored by the misinformation – coming from the pollsters themselves.
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