[Skooz]

Slanted. Big time.

I heard this reported at the top of the hour news during Rush and could barely believe my ears. This is how a drop in unemployment is reported when a Republican in President.

[RaceBannon]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/955929/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/954156/posts?page=1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956435/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956461/posts

That's a start!

[Cyber Liberty]

"Women, children and minorities hardest hit."

[wny]

Of course. See mediaresearch.org they do a masterful job of pointing this out. Early in W's term, pre 9-11, they ran a nice comparison. A certain economic statistic was reported. I don't remember what it was, but they compared 2 cases. the identical number, say 2.5%, was trending down under Clinton when reported and was treated as a positve. The identical number was trending up under Bush when reported and was treated as a negative. (And it WASN'T an instance where up was bad and down was good)

[autoresponder]

Clinton had a 7% unemployment rate

Then they cooked the books to make them look lower

He also also pumped up the GNP from '98-2000 after the bubble burst to get algore elected and to build a "legacy"

Latest true rate is about 5.1%

#s are easily played with; Clinton merely modified data reporting