May 07, 2004

Take the MiniTruth Challenge!


So 288,000 more Amerikan jobs were created last month, surely all low-paying service jobs, like military prison guards and abusers, I suppose.

Tough news to swallow, but MiniTruth rose to the challenge. Not only was this "good" news (good for Shrimp Chub Bush anyway) but it was, through the economists' favorite prism, "better than expected."

Just yesterday, the Commissar read in Forbes, the consensus forecast of 170,000 new jobs.

Seventy percent better than expected? Nyet, nyet, nyet ... Uh ... Nyet. Do not go there, comrades.

The Minitruth solution? Bury the earlier forecast 15 paragraphs deep in the article. And oh, yes, re-state the consensus from 170,000 to "about 180,000 to 200,000." Khorosho.

Comrade Atrios is doing the best he can. He "will look at details later."


Posted by Commissar at May 7, 2004 11:10 AM
Confessions

AP holds MiniTruth Party Line well:
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Note that offender is true enemy of the state:
Both a sex offender AND Jewish. No mention of party affiliation, except sideways reference to holding position under Dhimmi Carter. No gulag for him, public apology more than sufficient!

Extracted from: salomeh at May 7, 2004 01:14 PM

I'm good at mini truth.

That graph shows that only republicans are getting jobs. W is killing democrats wholesale, so there are less people, which is making job number go up.

Extracted from: Bad Commie at May 7, 2004 08:17 PM

Is searing indictment of inhumane kapitalist system.

Someone call SPCA for Komrade Krugman's Kat.

Extracted from: asher abrams at May 7, 2004 09:28 PM

So, the Commissar confesses to reading "Forbes".....

I'm sure it was only for the articles, da?

Extracted from: Steve the Llamabutcher at May 9, 2004 10:20 AM