Conservative Echo Chamber Rejects Facts, Claims Positive Economic Data Is A Conspiracy To Help Obama

[pampango]

This morning brought two new signs that the economy is improving: a four-year low in weekly unemployment claims and record profits at GM, which was nearly left for dead just a few years ago until intervention by the Obama administration saved it. But where most see good news, some conservative see danger — and a secret media plot.
Appearing on Fox News this morning, Sarah Palin said she doesn’t believe the good job numbers:

PALIN: The media is reeling these numbers, that I do not believe are accurate, when it comes to jobs. I still think it is a jobless recovery that is affecting America right now. … So that 8.3 percent unemployment number is an indicator to President Obama and to his allies in the media to make it look like things are getting better.

The suggestion that falling unemployment and that the revival of a major American auto-maker is good for Obama, and not, say, the country as a whole, and that rising gas prices are bad for Obama, and not, say, every driver in America, illuminates the Fox News world view which politicizes everything from jobs to Christmas in a nihilist effort to tear down the president.

Good news is bad news for the conservative echo chamber, as it undermines the narrative they’ve doggedly constructed of the past three years that president Obama is bad for the economy.

Perhaps it’s just that, as Comedy Central host Steven Colbert noted, facts have a “liberal bias.”

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/16/426895/sarah-palin-media-conspiracy-economy/

The ol' "if it's good economic news, it must be a conspiracy to help Obama with false statistics".

[sendero]

1. The unemployment numbers..

... are pure fiction. Whether it is a "conspiracy" or not is moot, I tend to not think so since this is not remotely new.

There are the same number of people working now as there were in 2009, but there are millions more working-age people. So how does the number go down?

It goes down when you drop a million discouraged workers from the tally. The entire premise of doing so is nonsense. Believe the number if it makes you feel good, but the jobs situation in America has not substantially improved.

[surfdog]

2. Here come the Sarah Palin defenders

[sendero]

3. I'm not defending ...

... anything but the truth, moron.

[Shankapotomus]

4. I thought Obama was going to "DESTROY America"?

The fact that Conservatives are now nitpicking on the finer points of our economic direction, including claiming a cover up, is kind of pathetic considering their pre-election claims.

[malaise]

5. They've been rejecting every fact about the failure of their

fugging trickle-down neo-liberal model.
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