Jack Welch double down on unemployment number conspiracy theory.
Now, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, entitled "Jack Welch: I Was Right About That Strange Jobs Report," Welch doubles down on his skepticism, calling the recent unemployment rate dropoff “implausible." What he will admit, however, is that the exact wording could have been clearer.
“If I could write that tweet again, I would have added a few question marks at the end,” Welch writes, so as to “make it clear I was raising a question.”
Punctuation or not, Welch has mostly stuck by his theory despite widespread criticism -- the numbers “don’t smell right,” he told Fox News on Tuesday. Where he has backtracked is on his criticism of the Obama administration. Now, he claims, he "never commented on the White House in any tweets I can recall.”
While many economists -- Paul Krugman, for example -- have criticized Welch, the former GE chief does have some believers, including notables like Newt Gingrich and Washington Examiner writer Conn Correll. So there's that.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/jack-welch-conspiracy-jobs-tweet_n_1954176.html?google_editors_picks=true
So "Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers" isn't directed at President Obama?
At least his weasel words are a sign that Welch is squirming a little.
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