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PATHETIC New York Times Covers for Biden: Bad Jobs Numbers a 'Real Fluke'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/11/2021 11:18:50 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Joe Biden was all geared up to go out last week and boast about the one million jobs the economy had added in April. But then the actual numbers came out, and . . . psych! Only 266,000 new jobs, 73 percent fewer than Biden was planning to brag about!

But not to worry, Joe: The New York Times has got your back!

Appearing on today's Morning Joe, Elisabeth Bumiller, the paper's Washington bureau chief, claimed, in a strangely stumbling statement, that:

"There is a sense that there was a lot of, there was a, the numbers were very, were, were a real fluke. They could be adjusted next month and it could be a very different story."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; jobsreport; morningjoe; newyorktimes
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1 posted on 05/11/2021 11:18:50 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; ...

Pathetic NY Times has Ol’ Joe’s back on bad jobs report.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 05/11/2021 11:19:39 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“They could be adjusted next month”

No doubt.


3 posted on 05/11/2021 11:24:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Stupid people say stupid things. In this case, they make stupid excuses, so that other stupid people will believe them.
Stupid.


4 posted on 05/11/2021 11:26:23 AM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Pathetic NY Times has Ol’ Joe’s back on bad jobs report.

Someday journalists will come out of the trance they're under... and they'll be soooooo ashamed...

5 posted on 05/11/2021 11:27:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (January 6th - Patriot March Against Systemic Voter Fraud.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
They could be adjusted next month and it could be a very different story."

Always look for the words "may" or "could" because they are consistent with anything and neither confirm nor deny anything. The ultimate weasel words.

6 posted on 05/11/2021 11:35:00 AM PDT by econjack
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To: GOPJ

“Someday journalists will come out of the trance they’re under... and they’ll be soooooo ashamed... “


You forgot the /s tag.


7 posted on 05/11/2021 11:37:38 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

When the SHTF these “journalists” think they will be the last to get eaten.

They are SORELY mistaken.


8 posted on 05/11/2021 11:39:22 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Get ready for a lot of:
“Unexpectedly......”
“Unexpectedly......”
“Unexpectedly......”
“Unexpectedly......”


9 posted on 05/11/2021 11:41:32 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah, they might be revised....down. Keep in mind, when the April jobs report came out, the BLS also adjusted the March jobs numbers from 916,000 down to 760,000.

Furthermore, regardless of the fact that the BLS is technically part of the Executive branch, there is a very curious trend to their unemployment/jobs statistics based solely upon whether a Democrat or Republican is in the White House. For example, under Obama ALL monthly jobs statistics would be revised down the following month. In other words, the BLS consistently overestimated the number of jobs created each month under Obama, only to revise the numbers down the following month. Under Trump, the exact opposite occurred. Trump’s jobs numbers would be revised up every month, like clock work.

This same bias in reporting was witnessed in quarterly economic growth numbers published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Obama’s quarterly GDP statistics would be revised down a month later, where Trump’s would be revised up. This bias was consistent throughout their presidencies.

So, do not be at all surprised to see the April jobs numbers revised down from 266,000.


10 posted on 05/11/2021 11:43:01 AM PDT by agatheringstorm
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Hey! Givem a break. There are no more mean tweets. $50 gas, wit an unbroken sea of illegals from sea to pollution encrusted sea is worth whatever slave encrusted economy was required to create it


11 posted on 05/11/2021 11:49:15 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
PATHETIC New York Times Covers for Biden: Bad Jobs Numbers a 'Real Fluke'

I suppose we'll find out the first part of June whether it's a fluke or a trend.

12 posted on 05/11/2021 11:50:34 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: agatheringstorm

Thanks for the interesting info.


13 posted on 05/11/2021 11:50:56 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: BenLurkin

count on it.


14 posted on 05/11/2021 12:03:33 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: BenLurkin

Could——Could-—

Ans Kevin Costner COULD call me for a dinner date....


15 posted on 05/11/2021 12:08:57 PM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“PATHETIC New York Times Covers for Biden: Bad Jobs Numbers a ‘Real Fluke’”

The MSM covering for Joe? The Fourth Estate has become the Farce Estate.


16 posted on 05/11/2021 12:09:26 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: agatheringstorm

Also keep in mind that Obama changed the way unemployment numbers are calculated in such a way to make things look better.


17 posted on 05/11/2021 12:17:47 PM PDT by oldbrowser ( )
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To: GOPJ

“Someday journalists will come out of the trance they’re under... and they’ll be soooooo ashamed...”

You’re overlooking the fact they’re fascists. Did Goebbels come out of his trance?


18 posted on 05/11/2021 12:24:05 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A real fluke eh? There is about a 1 million person backlog on unemployment applications in California alone. Many people haven’t received any UI money since February.

Funny how everything was working fine when Trump was POTUS. Then Biden gets elected they pass that $1.9 trillion bailout of the states, and voila the state is no longer capable of processing unemployment applications.

Not funny haha funny, but funny in a pathetic ugh kinda way. They wouldn’t be trying to hide the real numbers would they? What with Newsome up for recall and an empty suit as POTUS to cover for and everything...


19 posted on 05/11/2021 1:14:28 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Ha, ha. An unexpected fluke. Maybe sunspots or flying saucer effects. Can’t be the fearless leader’s exalted commie plans like laying off pipeline workers and fracking employees or locking down places under Fauci’s rules.

And training people to enjoy having federal money given to them at home rather than getting a job.


20 posted on 05/11/2021 1:36:51 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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