{"id":128624,"date":"2015-11-06T16:21:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T23:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/when-good-employment-news-is-bad-for-some-folk.html"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T16:15:20","slug":"when-good-employment-news-is-bad-for-some-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/when-good-employment-news-is-bad-for-some-folk.html","title":{"rendered":"When good employment news is bad (for some folk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unbearable sadness of numbers that are not what Fox News hoped for &#8212; it burns &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, not to be partisan or anything but this is actually pretty funny to watch. &quot;\u200bThat&#39;s right, Steve, only 271,000 new jobs were added last month. That is up from September as well. Analysts were expecting more than 180,000 jobs for October.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But we got &quot;only 271,000.&quot; Clearly a moment of grieving silence is called for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/videos\/a39520\/fox-anchors-jobs-report'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/JBN9xf8m8McR1s9drbcj_pPXK8FTCz_AKYBP_eP4AQOgPKnkQzY8FoYioxH_ncXmbSPSTi1R1a0bHzjbcg9HPn-1TLp6C0yNKCirQRCtqZCIQjH6vVUZGI68h27C=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/videos\/a39520\/fox-anchors-jobs-report'>Fox News Anchors Hilariously Struggle to Process Drop in Unemployment<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt does not compute.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Tn5TLWUfT2b'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unbearable sadness of numbers that are not what Fox News hoped for &#8212; it burns &#8230; I mean, not to be partisan or anything but this is actually pretty funny to watch. &quot;\u200bThat&#39;s right, Steve, only 271,000 new jobs were added last month. That is up from September as well. Analysts were expecting more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/when-good-employment-news-is-bad-for-some-folk.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When good employment news is bad (for some folk)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30208,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/fox-news-americas-religious-police.html","url_meta":{"origin":128624,"position":0},"title":"Fox News: America&#39;s Religious Police","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Sep-12 10:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean, that's all I can think of, if they think one of their key jobs is criticizing (dubiously) whether the president is invoking God and religion and prayer enough.Reshared post from +Media Matters for AmericaFox News remembers 9\/11 by attacking President Obama for not mentioning God in his presidential\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26106,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/cognitive-dissonance-from-fox-news-surprise-surprise.html","url_meta":{"origin":128624,"position":1},"title":"Cognitive dissonance from Fox News (surprise, surprise)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Feb-12 11:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because, after all, it's impossible for the numbers to show job gains under an Obama Administration, so clearly the numbers must be cooked. Yeesh. #ddtbReshared post from +donald mclaughlinThis is disgusting - and I don't say this too often - but anti-American. 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