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Should Mitt Hire Jay Leno and Pat Caddell?
American Thinker ^ | September 27, 2012 | C. Edmund Wright

Posted on 09/27/2012 4:55:28 PM PDT by neverdem

There's an old saying that if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything. Proving the point, the Obama administration has put national employment statistics on the Procrustean table, and the poor numbers remarkably now "confess" to an improving jobs situation with an 8.1% unemployment rate -- even as fewer and fewer Americans are actually working each day. Obviously, if fewer folks are working, the jobs stats can improve only if the calculus is severely flawed. And it is. (More on this later.)

This obvious data corruption renders the employment metric useless for its stated purpose, of course, which is to provide a realistic snapshot of the health of the economy. It is now merely a tool of political expedience. If Americans had even a rough understanding of the true employment situation, Obama and liberal economics would be guaranteed a generational defeat this November. This is Team Romney's opportunity, and our future depends on them taking advantage.

Mystifyingly, however, Mitt and his campaign are actually collaborators in this peculiar fiction, repeating the line in their ads and campaign speeches that headline unemployment (U3) "remains over 8 per cent." And of course, U3 is over 8 per cent. In fact, U3 is a shocking 11 percent-plus according to numerous serious students of the history of unemployment. And the concept that explains why it is really 11 and not 8 is relatively simple to understand -- so simple that even a liberal comedian and his audience can do it.

In fact, last week on Leno, they did.

And yet, Team Romney is still loath to mention the real U3 rate...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; romney; unemployment

1 posted on 09/27/2012 4:55:36 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Yes, but he will not which is a pity.


2 posted on 09/27/2012 4:58:11 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

BTTT! Weren’t you working for the Newt campaign last spring?


3 posted on 09/27/2012 5:02:05 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: F15Eagle

Barack Obama’s daughters are very smart. They told him they will take the same responsibility for the dog that he is taking for the economy. That way, if the dog leaves a mess in the White House, it’ll be cleaned up by future generations.” —Jay Leno

“President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He’s concerned there are too many loopholes and too many people manipulating the system to avoid paying taxes. And that’s just in his administration.” —Jay Leno

“Barack Obama’s mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.” —Jay Leno

“Everyone is so concerned now where all of the candidates are born. McCain was born on a military base in Panama. Hillary was born outside Chicago, and if you believe the media, Barack Obama was born in a manger.” —Jay Leno

“Barack Obama now says he is open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind.” —Jay Leno

“Insiders say Hillary was never on Obama’s VP list. Obama felt it would have been too much to put her on the ticket. Bad enough to worry about Jesse cutting them off, didn’t want to worry about Hillary breaking them, too. You know what I’m saying?” —Jay Leno

“Barack Obama is now denying that he is email pals with the beautiful actress, Scarlett Johansson. Remember that story? They were saying that Scarlett Johansson and Barack Obama were emailing each other. He says no, it’s not true. In fact his exact words were ‘I did not have textual relations with that woman.’” —Jay Leno

“Today, President Barack Obama promised to ‘detect and pursue’ American tax evaders, as opposed to his first 100 days, in which he detected and nominated American tax evaders.” —Jay Leno

“President Barack Obama told his Cabinet yesterday to insure that every taxpayer dollar is spent wisely. But there was one embarrassing moment when he had to explain to the Cabinet what a taxpayer was.” —Jay Leno

“Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.” —Jay Leno

“The Democrats are now preparing for their convention in Denver, and they have hired the first ever director of greening. They say that this year that everything about their convention will be green, including nominating a candidate who’s only been a senator for a couple of years.” —Jay Leno

“I tell you, the economy is in bad shape. In fact, the economy is so bad, President Barack Obama’s new slogan is ‘Spare Change You Can Believe In.’” —Jay Leno

“Barack Obama said yesterday that the economy was ‘going to get worse before it gets better.’ See, that’s when you know the campaign is really over. Remember before the election? ‘The audacity of hope!’ ‘Yes, we can!’ ‘A change we can believe in!’ Now it’s, ‘We’re all screwed.’” —Jay Leno


5 posted on 09/27/2012 5:34:17 PM PDT by oldernittany
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To: oldernittany

“The stoner comedy duo Harold and Kumar are starring in a new promo for the Democratic convention alongside President Obama, which is pretty impressive. The only other person to go from smoking pot with buddies to the White House is President Obama.” –Jay Leno

“A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald’s. To show you how good this guy’s disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.” –Jay Leno

“This Obama robber made some pretty scary threats to the McDonald’s employees. He said, ‘Give me your money, or else my economic plan will have you working here for the rest of your life.’” –Jay Leno

“According to The New York Times, more than half of President Obama’s Twitter followers are fake. They don’t even exist. Which is actually a good thing because if they did exist there wouldn’t be any jobs for them.” –Jay Leno

“President Obama is brewing his own beer in the White House. Actually, the White House beer is a lot like the Obama administration – great buzz, weak finish.” –Jay Leno

“Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden’s.” –Jay Leno

“President Obama said today he is sticking with Joe Biden. Which means one of two things – either he thinks Biden is doing a good job or Hillary said no.” –Jay Leno

“President Obama met with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in the Oval Office. They agreed on a new economic plan after losing last night’s big Powerball lottery.” –Jay Leno

“President Obama is still reminding people that he inherited this economy. Let me tell you something. If this economy doesn’t turn around soon, his inheritance could be cut off in November.” –Jay Leno

“According to a new book coming out by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, apparently when he was in high school, President Obama smoked large amounts of marijuana. You know what that means? He could be our first green president.” –Jay Leno

“President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person . . . So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. It’s all the same.” –Jay Leno


7 posted on 09/27/2012 5:37:47 PM PDT by oldernittany
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To: neverdem
I think at this point it's more important to fire THE ENTIRE TEAM that is currently in place. I know McCain's team of advisers was hard to beat, but these people have reached a new low in poor messaging, lack of focus and playing prevent defense. Just awful...

He could not bring in a worse team than the current clueless gang of idiots.

8 posted on 09/27/2012 5:39:12 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: neverdem

Actually, I was a spokesman and senior consultant for the Super PAC supporting Newt, and not his campaign specifically. I was the lone voice telling them NO DO NOT RUN THAT ANTI BAIN campaign and I was the lone voice telling them to pay attention to Santorum. They damned sure should have listened, but they didn’t.

Chatted very briefly today with Tagg Romney about this concept in fact. Not sure if that chat went anywhere.


9 posted on 09/27/2012 5:43:15 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: F15Eagle
11%? Ha. Unemployment is 17% - at a minimum.

To clarify, it is 11% by the normal standard of U3 - the figure most everyone is claiming now down to 8.1. The U6 is probably close to 20 truthfully. U6 is the un and under measurement.

10 posted on 09/27/2012 5:46:08 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: neverdem

No. They should hire Jerry Seinfeld.

He’s an expert on shows about nothing.


12 posted on 09/27/2012 5:51:18 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (If your only choice is evil, you've either died and gone to hell, or you're a Republican.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Chatted very briefly today with Tagg Romney about this concept in fact. Not sure if that chat went anywhere.

I don't know what Tagg Romney means, but I'd follow up on your idea, and I'd mention the subtitle about Obama from Michael Barone's essay.

Obama and the Millennials

He has industrial-age solutions for information-age challenges.

It strikes me as a zinger for one of the debates and part of Romney's ad campaign, IMHO.

13 posted on 09/27/2012 6:48:43 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

Tagg is one of his five sons.


14 posted on 09/27/2012 7:10:27 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Thank you.


15 posted on 09/27/2012 7:37:37 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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