Jack Welch Is a Jobs Truther: the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory
The unemployment rate has dipped below 8 percent for the first time since 2009 — evidence of a slow, but steady recovery? Or evidence that hundreds of thousands of unemployed Democrats gathered together to lie about being employed?
Everyone should gather around and be quiet, because we're witnessing one of God's miracles: the birth of a conspiracy theory. And former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is its St. Paul (or its John the Baptist?):
Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers
— Jack Welch (@jack_welch) October 5, 2012
Welch, who is retired, is apparently "in meetings" all day today and can't comment. But he's getting backup from elected officials/accused war criminals:
In regards to today's Jobs report—-I agree with former GE CEO Jack Welch, Chicago style politics is at work here...tinyurl.com/9rbommz
— Allen West (@AllenWest) October 5, 2012
And television hosts:
Scarborough: I want [jobs numbers] to be good...but these numbers don't add up. It doesn't make sense. #morningjoe
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) October 5, 2012
Fox News' Stuart Varney right now: "There is widespread distrust of this report."
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) October 5, 2012
But just cooking the books is a kind of boring conspiracy. This, from Washington Examiner writer Conn Carroll, is a much better, and more fun conspiracy theory:
I don't think BLS cooked numbers. I think a bunch of Dems lied about getting jobs. That would have same effect.
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) October 5, 2012
Unfortunately, Carroll's flavor of the conspiracy hasn't taken root. But the general sense that the numbers produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics — a government agency that currently has no political appointees (due in part to the currently-blocked nomination of Erica Groshen, known Jewish Summer Camp attendee) — have been faked or cooked is overwhelming:
Total data manipulation. Such a farce
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 5, 2012
Funny how the unemployment rate magically drops after Obama gets roasted in a one on one debate vs. Romney. #CorruptMedia #tcot #p2
— TheIgnorantLeft (@TheIgnorantLeft) October 5, 2012
Obama loses 1st debate = unemployment rate goes downI smell a big fat rat
— Ann Meyer (@cooper7mm08) October 5, 2012
Something tells me Barak Obama is spending more time on the phone lobbying BLS to drop more workers off the roles than he is campaigning.
— Dave in MD (@RSAmerica) October 5, 2012
BLS Bureau of Lotta Shit. What happens when the people don't accept the lies being force fed to us? See Declaration of Independence. #obama
— Steve Lemois (@stevelemois) October 5, 2012
Could BLS numbers be fake? Is national interest at stake? Could misinformation/ Help calm a broke nation? It's time for the kids to awake...
— The Limerick King (@TheLimerickKing) October 5, 2012
Fake unemployment stat is an obvious ruse by Obama campaign to change the post debate narrative.BLS' credibility shredded
— Paul Izzo (@PaulIzzo2) October 5, 2012
Job numbers OUT, 7,9 % on 103,000 Jobs, Rigged by Odummer to make public believe he created Jobs, Still 23 Million out of WORK !
— Bflyboy13 (@Bflyboy13) October 5, 2012
The conservatives on Twitter join a proud tradition of questioning the BLS statistics, a proud tradition dating back to Richard Nixon. But you know what Nixon would've done if he thought the numbers were juked? Richard Nixon would've appointed an agency Jew-counter. Hopefully Big Journalism and the Daily Caller are up for the job.