Here's the screen shot of the MSNBC 300,000 job report.

[trumad]

Oh BTW: When MSNBC had it up I clicked on the Full Story link and it routed me to the bombings in Egypt.( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6200950/ )

They didn't even have a er Full Story.... Me thinks they lied thier ass off.

[vi5]

1. Yeah, but is that technically not true?

I mean it's ridiculous that they would even think about slanting it suddenly as a quarterly number, but what they are saying isn't totally inaccurate is it?

[louisvillelip]

2. MSNBC POLL

somebody post a new thread with this new poll .... Kerry needs help

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6092749/

[nickinSTL]

3. Definitely been freeped

n/t

[newyawker99]

19. Hi louisvillelip!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Depends On What The Meaning Of True Is...

[w4rma]

17. No, it's both misleading and inaccurate.

The story up now is more accurate, but doesn't emphasize, imho, the problems our country has enough.

[nickinSTL]

4. Well, is it 200,000 or 300,000?

Not only is it overall misleading, but they have 2 different numbers in the headline and the text right under the headline.

[trumad]

8. Wow...I didn't notice that

and like I said, it routed to the bombings in Egypt.

[w4rma]

18. It's 96,000 with a plurality of it from government hiring. (nt)

[NewYorkerfromMass]

22. Lying is ALWAYS hard work!

It's hard to get your story straight when it's complete fiction!

[gollygee]

5. OMG is that for real?

I just clicked on msnbc.com and it says "modest payroll growth - in a BLOW to president Bush . . . "

WOW

Did they call the white house for the news and just put it up on their site without checking it out at all? And then have to correct it?

[jayfish]

6. Not Only is The Number WAY Off,...

but the story was written around these numbers with the intent of licking GW's ass. Heads need to roll after this one. Pre-written stories strike again.

Jay

[KharmaTrain]

9. Redressing A Pig

Those who don't have a job today or are on the verge of losing theirs don't give a shit about what those numbers mean.

Now, let's wait for the "corrections" here. How many of these jobs are burger flipping ones, part-time jobs that used to be full-time positions and temporary jobs created by the government (or campaign) to prop up the numbers before the election.

This regime's "resevoir of good faith" long has been drained on this topic and I expect these numbers to be "revised" or "corrected" by next week (obviously not in time for the debates).

[RoadRunner]

10. I saw that earlier too -- This is what it says now

[ClintonTyree]

11. 300,000 jobs last quarter..............

150,000 jobs a month are needed to just break even due to attrition etc. That would mean that in the last quarter 450,000 jobs would need to be created to just break even, meaning that in the last quarter there was a NET LOSS of 150,000 jobs.
God damn these cable and internet media outlets. They wouldn't know the truth if it crawled up it's ass and came out their mouth.
Of course they're just following the lead of our Chimp in Chief. Lying, distorting and never telling the people the ACTUAL TRUTH!!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. 200,000 Jobs In Three Months...

If the American economy only created 66,500 jobs a month that would not be enough to keep up with population growth ....

Unemployment would soon reach double digit levels...

That's just plain economics...

[HughBeaumont]

13. Last QUARTER?

Boy.

2 different numbers.

Pre-written story.

Now it's a QUARTERLY number (with the August revision, THAT isn't even true).

"Liberal Media"? Freeptards?

MSRNC sleeps with the Bushes while the sheikdoms do the filming.

Methinks Lancelot Link is gonna get lambasted tonight.

Yeah right.

His followers will slurp him from one side to the other.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. It Could Be Stupidity And Not A Conspiracy...

If you are flat out ignorant you would think the 300,000 is a good number...

Maybe someone with at least an I Q of 100 figured out the number sucked and ordered it pulled...

[trumad]

15. No..I don't buy that it was stupidity or a mistake and here's why

because when I hit on the link for the full story it took me to the Egypt bombings. They tried to fake us out on that one because they had no God Damn full story. This to me show's they were being DECEITFUL!

[Bleacher Creature]

16. IT JUST CHANGED

It's literally the EXACT opposite now.

Haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[papau]

20. GOP's favorite jobs report, the household survey, shows 585000 jobs lost

Household Jobs show disaster-labor force drops 1 million, job loss of 585K

The GOP's favorite DOL jobs number, the Household survey number, shows bigger Job disaster than shown in the anemic 96,000 jobs gain in the payroll survey jobs number. The Household Survey reports 201,000 lost jobs in September since 139,681,000 were "seasonal adjusted" employed in Aug less 139,480,000 of Seasonal adjusted folks Employed in Sept., and that is a drop of 201,000 jobs. If you prefer numbers that are not seasonally adjusted, then 140,226,000 less 139,641,000, or 585,000 jobs were lost in Sept.

And that Steady 5.4% Unemployment rate is based on folks no longer being in the labor pool and therefore not counted as unemployed. The seasonal adjusted change is from 147,704,000 looking for work or employed in August to 147,483,000 looking for work or employed in Sept, or 221,000 folks dropped out. If you like non-seasonally adjusted numbers, then 148,166,000 less 147,186,000, or a huge 980,000 folks stopped looking for work or being employed in Sept.

NEARLY ONE MILLION FOLKS STOPPED LOOKING FOR WORK OR BEING EMPLOYED IN SEPTEMBER!!!!





http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm

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Series Id: LNS12000000Seasonal AdjustedSeries title: (Seas) Employment LevelLabor force status: EmployedType of data: Number in thousandsAge: 16 years and over

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual

2004 138566 138301 138298 138576 138772 139031 139660 139681 139480



Series Id: LNU02000000Not Seasonally AdjustedSeries title: (Unadj) Employment LevelLabor force status: EmployedType of data: Number in thousandsAge: 16 years and over

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual

2004 136924 137384 137691 138423 138867 139861 140700 140226 139641



Series Id: LNS11000000Seasonal AdjustedSeries title: (Seas) Civilian Labor Force LevelLabor force status: Civilian labor forceType of data: Number in thousandsAge: 16 years and over

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual

2004 146863 146471 146650 146741 146974 147279 147856 147704 147483


Series Id: LNU01000000Not Seasonally AdjustedSeries title: (Unadj) Civilian Labor Force LevelLabor force status: Civilian labor forceType of data: Number in thousandsAge: 16 years and over

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual

2004 146068 146154 146525 146260 146659 148478 149217 148166 147186


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PAYROLL SURVEY 96,000 NEW JOBS IN SEPTEMBER

Series Id: CES0000000001Seasonally AdjustedSuper Sector: Total nonfarmIndustry: Total nonfarmNAICS Code: N/AData Type: ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual

2004 130194 130277 130630 130954 131162 131258 131343 131471(p) 131567(p)

[eleanor]

21. Outrageous!

Though they have now corrected the numbers, the fact that they ever published the bogus story is beyond belief. I just wrote them and told them it was shameful of them to be so lazy and just sit there letting Karl Rove feed them the news!!!

[progdonkey]

23. now it's "modest payroll growth"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6205119/

How did we go from "300,000 New Jobs" to "Modest Payroll Growth" in just a few hours? Is the Bush economy really that bad?

[gatorboy]

24. It's nice of them to post Bush's talking points for him.

I'm sure Bush is going to use this tonite, "They just said on the news, blah blah blah..."
Kerry needs to hit him on the inaccuracies of this.

[Beetwasher]

25. This Is Just SOOO Fucked Up, Just So Completely Fucked Up

I just don't even know what to say.

Apparently MSNBC just puts Roves faxes right onto their homepage FIRST without waiting to confirm anything.

Disgusting.