Don’t know what Dobbs said, but Kudlow took the same view that Welch was wrong for saying this.
I’ll take a stab at why. There is no way to prove these numbers were cooked. But to say anyway that they were, makes the focus on charges of cooked numbers, unprovable.
Whereas, Kudlow’s point and those of his guests was that the numbers are flukes, misleading, paint an erroneous picture of a terrible economy, and they set about to explain why. Their explanations weren’t that difficult to follow. They were pretty simple.
Therefore, they think it’s a red herring to chase the cooked numbers theory when theory is all it would ever amount to.
They want to nail the bad economy.
They want to nail Obama for running around shouting lies to dumbed-down audiences that these numbers show economic progress, when nothing could be further from the truth.
We’ve been “dancing” with this administration long enough to know the routine - the constantly touted “unexpected” is really so much old hat.