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The Jobs Report Is Wrong

[BuzzFeed.com]

A BuzzFeed original analysis. posted on March 8, 2013 at 12:37pm EST

What headlines say about the monthly jobs numbers is actually no more accurate than chance.

BuzzFeed Data Scientist

Months in red are months where initial headlines said the jobs numbers fell short of economists’ expectations, but then the revised numbers actually exceeded expectations (or vice versa).

Economists’ expectations were drawn from a Bloomberg survey of economists, and jobs figures were gathered from BLS.gov. Final benchmark revisions for the previous March are released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in February of the following year.


Obama Campaign Ad Controversy, 2000: ‘This Guy Says One Thing About You in Your Presence, and Then…’

[Breitbart.com]

May 24, 2012 by Joel B. Pollak

All week, Democrats have been disagreeing publicly with President Barack Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital, with Newark Mayor Cory Booker describing the ad campaign as “nauseating.” It is not the first time that Democrats have attacked Obama for running dishonest campaign ads. Breitbart News has unearthed a long-overlooked report of an off-air argument between Obama and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) during a break in a debate on a Chicago radio station during Obama’s ill-fated primary challenge in 2000.

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