{"id":26106,"date":"2012-02-06T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/cognitive-dissonance-from-fox-news-surprise-surprise.html"},"modified":"2012-02-06T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:10:08","slug":"cognitive-dissonance-from-fox-news-surprise-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/cognitive-dissonance-from-fox-news-surprise-surprise.html","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive dissonance from Fox News (surprise, surprise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because, after all, it&#39;s impossible for the numbers to show job gains under an Obama Administration, so clearly the numbers must be cooked. Yeesh.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100419209457758501564'>donald mclaughlin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is disgusting &#8211; and I don&#39;t say this too often &#8211; but anti-American.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fm.static.newsvine.com%2Fservista%2Fimagesizer%3Ffile%3Dsteve-benen520BCC2A-B898-718C-E80C-9579EBEB6851.jpg%26width%3Dauth' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/02\/06\/10332119-explaining-job-growth-with-a-conspiracy-theory'>The Maddow Blog &#8211; Explaining job growth with a conspiracy theory<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe latest monthly job totals were released late last week, and the news was quite encouraging. The economy added 243,000 jobs in January &#8212; 257,000 in the private sector &#8212; and the unemployment rate &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because, after all, it&#39;s impossible for the numbers to show job gains under an Obama Administration, so clearly the numbers must be cooked. Yeesh. #ddtb Reshared post from +donald mclaughlin This is disgusting &#8211; and I don&#39;t say this too often &#8211; but anti-American. Embedded Link The Maddow Blog &#8211; Explaining job growth with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/cognitive-dissonance-from-fox-news-surprise-surprise.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cognitive dissonance from Fox News (surprise, surprise)&#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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77,12],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","category-fourth-estate","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4504,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/18\/if_you_cant_bea.html","url_meta":{"origin":26106,"position":0},"title":"If you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, profit from &#8217;em","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Aug-03 2:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Surprise, surprise. 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