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FOX HOST FAILS MATH: ONLY 271,000 NEW JOBS, BUT WE WERE EXPECTING MORE THAN 180,000
But it is Doocys co-host, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who really throws the announcement into full spin cycle. This is a textbook example of how you turn one thing into something else with your choice of words and your vocal inflection. Hasselbeck says,
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): You know the music, we are back with a Fox Business Alert right now. The October jobless report for hourly workers, just released 90 seconds ago. The unemployment rate is, as you can see right there, 5 percent. I believe that could be, actually, a little lower than in August and in September as well.
Thats right, Steve. Only 271,000 new jobs were added last month. That is up from September as well. Analysts were expecting more than 180,000 jobs for October.
Only 271,000 jobs were added? When they were expecting almost 100,000 fewer than that?
For Fox News, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and any other Obama-haters out there, here is a comparison between President Obama and President Bush on jobs, using information taken directly from the Bureau Of Labor Statistics:
There have been 16 months with job losses under President Obama so far, all of them in his first two years in office.
There were 26 months up to the same point in George W. Bushs term where the economy saw a net loss of jobs.
Only during nine months out of Bushs first seven years did job gains meet or exceed those of October 2015.
The 271,000 jobs figure has been met or exceeded 11 times under President Obama.
Under President Obama, the economy has gained jobs every month since October 2010. It took almost a full year longer for job gains to become consistent under Bush.
From the first full month of their terms to this point in their presidencies, Bush added 5.4 million jobs, Obama, 8.6 million.
Any questions?
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/videos/fox-host-fails-math-only-271000-new-jobs-but-we-were-expecting-more-than-180000-video/
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/11/06/watch-fox-news-stumble-through-outstanding-octo/206671
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)There a number of folks posting here who feel the same way as FOX about the new numbers.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)The corporate media always seems to have SO much trouble in the research and report department when it comes to anything other than Gloom and Doom.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)harm the country.
I will say this: The manager of one of the stores in our mall said that pay for his employees went up 20% this year and they have their full complement of full-time staff. Now he is having trouble finding part-time staff for the coming holidays because the big chain stores in the mall are offering higher part-time pay than he is.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Or....fundamentalists don't know how to read.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...learning?
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)Right-wing fuzzy math and an ingrained inability to see how the world really works--why I stopped being a Republican over two decades ago. And that was BEFORE the GOP went fully psychotic.
Neurotics build dream-castles, psychotics live in them, and News Corp produces shows on how to furnish and decorate their interiors.
spanone
(135,844 posts)just the way 'doocy' says....'i believe that could be actually a little lower than august/september' and they call it the 'jobless number' they are insidious.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Roger Ailes really has nothing better to do but control every minute of broadcasting his personal views using well compensated human parrot proxies.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)and learning numbers and the very basics of addition and subtraction, he loved to play a game of bigger or smaller. I'd say, which is larger? Five or seven. As he progressed in his understanding, I'd make the numbers larger. Even he would have gotten right the question , which is larger, two hundred and seventy one thousand, or one hundred and twenty eight? And that was when he was four.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)There fans will not realize that the FOX News hosts are wrong, or lying. There fans are going to assume they either said 280,000, or meant to say 280,000.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)New Fox "News" motto.