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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 05:25 PM Oct 2012

Jack Welch: ‘No Evidence’ Of BLS Conspiracy, But I Stand By BLS Conspiracy

Jack Welch: ‘No Evidence’ Of BLS Conspiracy, But I Stand By BLS Conspiracy

Jack Welch admitted MSNBC's Chris Matthews that he had "no evidence" that President Obama conspired to inflate jobs numbers. But he said he stands by his accusation from that morning that Obama did exactly that.

"I have no evidence of corruption. None whatsoever," he said.

But what about his tweet this morning that "these Chicago guys will do anything...cant debate so they change the numbers"?

"I don't want to take back one word in that tweet," he said.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/jack-welch-no-evidence-of-bls-conspiracy-but



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coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
6. Joseph McCarthy redux: "The State Department is infested with communists. I have
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 05:37 PM
Oct 2012

here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
4. Fuck his "conspiracy" He made himself look like a fool. On NPR today they were talking about
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 05:30 PM
Oct 2012

his crazy talk, and they were saying that it was just preposterous. The business guys were commenting on it.

Fuck his stupid theory.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,615 posts)
9. Wow . . . NPR took a stand on something?
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 05:42 PM
Oct 2012

I always listen on my drive to and from work, but lately, it seems like mostly fluff pieces . . . about to leave the office now. Can't wait to hear that one!

aletier_v

(1,773 posts)
8. It's context
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 05:39 PM
Oct 2012

He's a product of his era.

My parents are the same way. To them, seven billion people is an incomprehensible number that means nothing. They grew up in a country of wide open, empty land.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
7. so why is tweet head letting shit like that on his show
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 05:39 PM
Oct 2012

doesn't he do some background on his guests?

can I go on his show and say that Mitt Romney is a pedophile, but I can't really prove it.

what horseshit.

d06204

(86 posts)
10. Makes the article on the "Backfire Effect"
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 05:59 PM
Oct 2012

all the more poignant. These people are locked into a belief system that no amount of logic can penetrate. That, in my book, makes them dangerous.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
12. So, with no real facts Jack just proceeds on to
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 06:15 PM
Oct 2012

tell people to accept his BS Conspiracy!? What a loser. Needs to change his name to I Don't Know Jack and I Welch on the Facts.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
13. Guy is a parody of himself...but by all means,GOPers, stick with one of the biggest job destroyers
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 08:17 PM
Oct 2012

in history.

I would love it if the GOP was associated with jack Welch in the mind of every working class voter in Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, etc.

Jack Welch, Neutron Jack, the Outsourcing, Job-Destroying Executive par excellence: he should really be the Romney standard bearer on the unemployment rate. That would be fucking awesome.

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