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In the discussion thread: US economy creates 96,000 jobs but figure disappoints [View all]

Response to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:06 AM

40. The media is spinning it like it's a TERRIBLE report.

My local lefty radio station gets a feed from ABC News and when I woke up this morning the first thing I heard was how horrible the jobs report was, coming "just hours after President Obama spoke in Charlotte."

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102 replies	Author	Time	Post
US economy creates 96,000 jobs but figure disappoints [View all]	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	OP
Boom!	Stuckinthebush	Sep 2012	#1
Goes the dynamite!	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#7
How is that better??? The Labor Force Participation Rate is 63.5! Lowest since 1981!	Roland99	Sep 2012	#28
The optics of 8.1%, a drop of .2%, is better than an uptick at this	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#29
As a soundbite headline it might be good but it's horrible news in reality	Roland99	Sep 2012	#32
Agreed, but at this critical juncture, optics are everything.	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#34
You know what? I don't give a rat's ass about optics. I want the people that I	SlimJimmy	Sep 2012	#49
I'm with you	glacierbay	Sep 2012	#61
Not good, no, but sure as hell better than a percentage	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#86
But, unless PBO can get re-elected, ain't nobody	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#85
You're not living in reality. A sound bite isn't going to get the President re-elected. People	SlimJimmy	Sep 2012	#95
And do you seriously think that's going to happen between now and Nov. 6th?	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#99
Cf.:	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#94
Yes, the IMPORTANT thing is what we can make people believe,	hughee99	Sep 2012	#66
cf.:	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#100
I am more interested in truth than optics. n/t	totodeinhere	Sep 2012	#74
As am I, and most Dems, in the final analysis...	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#89
What a bunch of naysayers. Uneployment dropped from 8.3 to 8.1! Can't find any thing good in	demosincebirth	Sep 2012	#41
The people in the labor force knows whether they are participating or not.	former9thward	Sep 2012	#45
Oh, so, since 90% of the people don't know what the LFPR is then that's a good thing?	Roland99	Sep 2012	#69
I did not say that.	demosincebirth	Sep 2012	#83
That's certainly what you meant to say or at least imply	Roland99	Sep 2012	#87
What I meant to say is what I said, not what you think I said or implied. eom	demosincebirth	Sep 2012	#102
In an election cycle? Optics, optics, optics!	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#90
Why ...	1StrongBlackMan	Sep 2012	#58
And no one is graduating schools and entering the work force while those people retire, eh?	Roland99	Sep 2012	#70
Come on ...	1StrongBlackMan	Sep 2012	#79
Tell it, 1StrongBlackMan! This "bulge" was forecast	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#91
The 300,000 a month that are retiring does not cover the nearly 60,000 deficit this month	SlimJimmy	Sep 2012	#97
Not better... Unemployment is still over 8% for over 42 months now... :(	liberallibral	Sep 2012	#37
Not better? I would say any drop in the unemployment rate better	demosincebirth	Sep 2012	#42
The reason the unemployment rate declined by .2% is that about	coalition_unwilling	Sep 2012	#46
Exactly. And don't think for a minute that the Romney campaign won't point that	SlimJimmy	Sep 2012	#50
I think Obama is pretty much innoculated from it, b/c the 2010	coalition_unwilling	Sep 2012	#51
Agree. And they better start hitting that point hard.	SlimJimmy	Sep 2012	#53
Obama needs someone who can negotiate with congress or he has to improve this skill and fast.	dkf	Sep 2012	#56
Funny ...	1StrongBlackMan	Sep 2012	#64
No...they had agreed on a target of tax increases and Obama increased that amount.	dkf	Sep 2012	#67
I guess it depend ...	1StrongBlackMan	Sep 2012	#75
Thanks for your rational refutation of dkf's	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#98
Most voters look at the .2% drop. nt.	demosincebirth	Sep 2012	#60
Yeah, but it's meaningless and does not signify that the	coalition_unwilling	Sep 2012	#72
How many of those ...	1StrongBlackMan	Sep 2012	#62
"LMPR" - I don't recognize that acronym. Aside from that, I'm going to have	coalition_unwilling	Sep 2012	#71
I think some of the drop in the labor force	Mr.Bill	Sep 2012	#77
Did Joe the Intern Killer say that?	Setsuna1972	Sep 2012	#2
It was unanimous, but Joe chimed in!	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#5
The round table was unanimous, with Joe Scar joining in!	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#31
Bloomberg is sure throwing cold water on it.	still_one	Sep 2012	#3
General gist of the negative spin?	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#6
Not all great jobs. But jobs.	geckosfeet	Sep 2012	#17
"Never look a gift horse in the mouth"--old wives' wisdom	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#23
Notice the moving goalposts? ...	1StrongBlackMan	Sep 2012	#65
Not just Bloomberg	dipsydoodle	Sep 2012	#24
Can't wait to hear them spin how bad this is	nobodyspecial	Sep 2012	#4
It's bad enough that people expect the Fed to move.	dkf	Sep 2012	#59
It would be much lower if the republicans had not been trying to "tank the economy" .....	Botany	Sep 2012	#8
Like Gov. O'Malley (D-MD) just said on Joe Scar, when the studio audience cheered at the news:	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#9
And if those public workers still had jobs their spending would have created even ...	Botany	Sep 2012	#14
Thanks for the reminder, Botany. This is so damning that it's	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#21
Down 2.1% from a high of 10.2%	JoePhilly	Sep 2012	#10
Yeeeeesssssss!	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#13
Wow	Robbins	Sep 2012	#11
Just the good news to kick off the 60 day campaign ahead...	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#12
Yep - breaking 8 is the threashold	Cosmocat	Sep 2012	#38
Yeah, different.	jtuck004	Sep 2012	#57
K&R nt	avebury	Sep 2012	#15
Trend chart	Bernardo de La Paz	Sep 2012	#16
Thanks for the graphic illustration!	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#19
Would make a nice bumper sticker with five more green bars representing 30 months growth.	julian09	Sep 2012	#39
And I am one of the newly employed	treehuggnlibrul	Sep 2012	#18
Wow, tree, this brought tears to my eyes...	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#20
Sweet. Welcome back into the labor force.	SlimJimmy	Sep 2012	#54
I have a hard time cheering a lowered rate when its because a lot of people gave up looking for work	cigsandcoffee	Sep 2012	#22
It's the positive optics we're cheering. Coming out of	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#27
Why are people not angry?	oliverrams1	Sep 2012	#63
Now, there's an idea...put the Big Dawg out there on the	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#96
Peeps - that's only 1,920 jobs per state	BP2	Sep 2012	#25
At this crucial juncture in the campaign, even this tiny drop is welcome.	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#26
Really? Chuck "Buzzkill" Todd says it dragged him down.	nolabear	Sep 2012	#30
Toady Todd is a two-faced, forked tongued panderer.	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#33
Pushing Congress Again	mojo2012	Sep 2012	#35
The video clip in Botany's post up-thread needs	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#36
+1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000,000 - Well put and definitely	coalition_unwilling	Sep 2012	#47
The media is spinning it like it's a TERRIBLE report.	Arugula Latte	Sep 2012	#40
Have you been reading THIS thread?	1StrongBlackMan	Sep 2012	#68
I'm really starting to believe ...	1StrongBlackMan	Sep 2012	#88
This is NOT good news!!	center rising	Sep 2012	#43
Correct	glacierbay	Sep 2012	#48
Demographic bulge coming into the equation...	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#92
Cf.:	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#93
Bad News is the new Good News	slackmaster	Sep 2012	#44
If this were good news then Romney would not be so giddy this morning	budkin	Sep 2012	#52
Did you find him "giddy"? I thought he was just his	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#82
When discussing the ...y	1StrongBlackMan	Sep 2012	#55
Excellent point, 1SBM! I was going to bring this up earlier, but then forgot...	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#80
Only 96K jobs added in August... Labor force participation rated lowest in decades...	totodeinhere	Sep 2012	#73
1StrongBlack Man makes an excellent point upthread.	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#84
Good for Obama	abelenkpe	Sep 2012	#76
What you said!	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#81
who cares if job quantity increases....	Green_Lantern	Sep 2012	#78
Please use the article title as the subject line and credit the correct source per LBN rules.	Rhiannon12866	Sep 2012	#101

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