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The Consipracy Deepens!

[ 29 ] October 11, 2012 | Scott Lemieux

A well-known Trotskyite rag is reporting that new unemployment claims are significantly down. I wonder who or what is responsible for this faked data — ACORN? McCulloch v. Maryland? The saucer people? I hope Jack Welch will get to the bottom of it!

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  1. Malaclypse says:

    Reverse vampires.

  2. mds says:

    Ah-HAH-ha-ha-ha-haaaa….Sorry.

    Oh, hey, does this mean Jack Welch has to immediately quit the WSJ opinion page in high dudgeon, where “high dudgeon” means “the manner of a deranged self-entitled thuggish jackass”?

  3. Spokesman for the Plutocracy says:

    My masters are having a good laugh watching you peasants get all excited over a “great” jobs report of 7.8% Unemployment and +115,000 jobs that include fries, keep it up!

  4. Joshua says:

    Their next gambit will be that companies are hiring more because they think Mitt Romney will win.

  5. c u n d gulag says:

    It’s all the fault of Griswold v. CT!

    And Roe V. Wade.

    Don’t ask why – IT JUST IS, THAT’S WHY!!!

  6. Sly says:

    Welch has chosen the WSJ editorial page much in the way that he hand-picked the Office of Thrift Supervision to supervise GE Capital back in the day: it’s the place where he’ll get maximum adulation and minimum pushback.

    Conservative media as a strategy of regulatory capture. Makes sense.

  7. Davis X. Machina says:

    All this good news is at best a two-edged sword. The usual assumption is that good news favors the incumbent.

    My theory is that electing a black President was a counsel born of desperation — when the country was plummeting down an elevator shaft, we’d try anything.

    Now, though, extreme measures like that are less necessary, and we can begin to return to normal white.

    • It is kind of weird that analysis like that was pretty common in 2008, eg everyone trying to sound smart by saying “Bradley Effect” every five minutes, but this time around there’s not a lot of speculation along the lines of your comment.

      I for one have a great uncle who voted for Obama in ’08 “because hell we sure as shit can’t give those fuckers the keys again” but this time around “can’t vote for the black guy, don’t trust him”.

  8. lee says:

    However, the report may not be as positive as the sharp drop indicates. A Labor Department economist said one large state didn’t report additional quarterly figures as expected, accounting for a substantial part of the decrease.

    One state could account for 30,000 claims

    • pete says:

      From a commenter at Drum’s:

      According to the twitter updates, all the states had reported data, but one state “appeared” to have not applied adjustments for seasonal hiring.

      So there may be an effect, but likely not large. We shall see.

  9. I blame Eric Holder. No doubt, he put on his Black Panther gear, went to the BLS, slapped a truncheon into his hand, and told Whitey to get the number below 340k.

    Because that sounds so much like him.

  10. bradp says:

    Well, they are reporting that they are down significaantly due to a large state that hasn’t reported as expected.

    If that state turns out to be a blue state, then those conspiracy rumors will start flying, and there will be no convincing the believers otherwise.

  11. Surely there’s no need to have the op-ed page and the news page in harmony.

  12. We need a modern-day J. Edgar Hoover to run roughshod through that Red Cabal of the WSJ.

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