Sunday, May 9, 2010

The Loch Ness Monster is wearing a Bikini? WTF?

Rachel Maddow Show

What is with the Bikini-Loch Ness monster graph bullshit? Then Rachel Maddow claims that the reason the jobless numbers are larger (despite the fact that more jobs were created in April---the largest increase in the last 4 years) is because there are many more people looking for jobs that weren't looking before? WTF? How does the government measure that when it doesn't even count those who have lost unemployment insurance but have not found work as still unemployed (once unemployment insurance ends, the government wouldn't know and doesn't keep track---a prime example of cherry-picking the data to paint a rosy picture; also known as the fallacy of half-truth). The flawed logic points at the intellectually dishonest mathematics here to contrast the Obama administration with the former Bush administration. Then the chart on previous recessions is a chart of percentages, not actual numbers. Now that the population of the U.S. is 300 million, not whatever the populations were at the time of the previous recessions, the use of percentages instead of actual numbers is, again, intellectually dishonest and purposefully misleading. Not having watched her show in a year or so, I did not realize how much the Maddow show has deteriorated. I knew it was biased, but did it have to get to the level of insHannity?

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