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Bent into a Pretzel: NYT’s Neil Irwin Spins Terrible BLS Jobs Report as ‘Pretty Good, Actually’
NewsBusters ^ | 10/12/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 10/12/2021 7:35:39 AM PDT by JV3MRC

New York Times senior economics correspondent Neil Irwin bent himself into a pretzel spinning the atrocious Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing the economy only added 194,000 jobs in September.

Following the release of the abysmal job growth report Oct. 8 at 8:30 a.m., Irwin had the nutty spin: “The New Jobs Numbers Are Pretty Good, Actually.” Irwin had a much different reaction earlier on Twitter that undercut the gaslighting in his article. He tweeted immediately at 8:30 a.m. after the BLS report dropped: “+194k on payrolls, a big miss. But unemployment rate way down to 4.8%.” He tweeted one minute later (8:31 a.m.) in his instant coverage of the BLS data: “Debating how many ‘o’s should be added to the word ‘oof’ in this circumstance.” He wrote in the lede paragraph of his article: “It’s not as bad as it looks.” That’s an interesting way of characterizing the “Slowest [Job Growth] Pace of Year.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bls; economy; neilirwin; nyt

1 posted on 10/12/2021 7:35:39 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

“The jobs report is not bad, it’s really saying ‘let’s go Brandon’.”


2 posted on 10/12/2021 7:39:20 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: JV3MRC

‘Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive,’


3 posted on 10/12/2021 7:39:52 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Peace to you and may God Bless you.)
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I have to laugh. This Neil Irwin idjit is so ideologically brainwashed he can’t tell shit from shinola.

If he had a pole stuck up his arse he would be laughing with glee , calling himself a fudgesicle.


4 posted on 10/12/2021 7:58:52 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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What he is saying is this turd smell is really nice. And the gas lights are not dimming.


5 posted on 10/12/2021 7:59:55 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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6 posted on 10/12/2021 8:00:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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That is all the left can do,
Put lipstick on pigs and claim they are super models. Everything the left touches turns into a disgusting mess, so they must lie, about everything, in order to deceive the public into believing their efforts are working.


7 posted on 10/12/2021 8:48:30 AM PDT by Bob434
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Yeah, NYT to the Biden rescue. They had a story a few weeks ago about how inflation wasn’t a bad thing.


8 posted on 10/12/2021 9:16:16 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
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