Bush*: "lowest unemployment rate of ALL TIME"

[TahitiNut]

Chimperor Codpiece engaged in over 45 minutes of verbal diarrhea from a podium at a nuclear power plant this morning, rambling cluelessly about the CloudCuckooLand of his Daliesque "worldview."

Among the many bizarre hallucinations he portrayed, perhaps the most stunning was his claim that we're now "enjoying the lowest unemployment rate of all time" ... a claim so stunningly disconnected with reality that even MSNBC footed the screen with the quote for over 5 minutes (obviously without management review and approval).

So, will the media stenographers engage in furious scrubbing of the notes and transcripts before they're released? Is it patriotic to quote the Fecal Fuhrer verbatim?

C-czar Disgustsus has virtually no connection with reality. The psychopathic bastard deserves to be strait-jacketed and locked away for the rest of his miserable life, along with his cabal of enablers and sycophants.

[KoKo]

1. Thanks Tahiti...

your rant gave me a chuckle which I badly needed today with all the bad news out there and the gloomy thoughts of more of this neverending crap day in and day out....

:D...

[G_j]

2. and everyone has health care also!

isn't it just great!

[geniph]

58. They'd better have health care, or we're gonna lock 'em up!

q.v., Mitt Romney's latest brainstorm.

[senseandsensibility]

3. When you say it was footed at the bottom

of the screen, do you mean they just ran it across the bottom of the screen as though it were true? Did anyone correct it, or is that a naive question? I don't watch corporate media. God, what a waste of a human being.:puke:

[TahitiNut]

19. It wasn't in the crawl ... it was the screen subtitle.

It said: "BUSH: LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE OF 'ALL TIME'"

It's just stunning ... each day brings new lows in obscenities and hallucinations from this abysmally corrupt cabal. Their disconnect from anything resembling facts or truth is more extreme every day. The garbage spewing forth has no resemblance to sanity.

[senseandsensibility]

23. Thanks for the horribly funny

and yet, sadly tragic post. I enjoy being kept abreast of these outrages since I'm boycotting the corporate media. However, I have so little faith in the regular watchers of this drivel that I really feel that it needs to be pointed out quite blatantly when a blatant lie is told by the chimp and his cohorts. Repeating it may ssem to us, well informed as we are, as sufficient to show how dishonest he is. But millions of viewers still think there are WMD in Iraq, and unless something is said, they will take this latest lie of *'s at face value too.x( So I hope that someone eventually points out that it's not true. I nominated your post! Great job!

[AllegroRondo]

4. Chocolate Ration increased to 25 grams!

[whistle]

5. Bush's mental condition has been watched for months......

<snip>
Special Report

Physician sees 'presenile dementia' in Bush's faltering speech

By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Contributing Writer

September 18, 2004—In a letter to the editor of Atlantic Monthly, October 2004, Joseph M. Price, M.D. of Carsonville, Michigan, comments that James Fallows' July/August Atlantic article on John Kerry's debating skills ("When George Meets John"), "was interesting, but most remarkable was Fallows's documentation of President Bush's mostly overlooked changes over the past decade—specifically 'the striking decline in his sentence-by-sentence speaking skills.'" Dr. Price understands Fallows' initial "speculations that there must be some organic basis for the President's peculiar mode of speech, a learning disability, a reading problem, dyslexia or some other disorder."

Quoting Fallows, Dr. Carson also agrees with him that "The main problem with these theories is that through his forties Bush was perfectly articulate." Yet, Dr. Carson stated he felt "that something organic was wrong with President Bush, most probably dyslexia, but . . . was unaware of what Fallows pointed out so clearly: that Bush's problems have been developing slowly, and that just a decade ago he was an articulate debater." He was as Fallows said, "artful indeed in steering questions and challenges to his desired subjects . . . who did not pause before forcing out big words, as he so often does now, or invent mangled new ones." As Dr. Carson suggests, "Consider, in contrast, the present: 'the informal Q&A he has tried to avoid,' 'Bush's recent faltering performances,' 'his stalling, defensive pose when put on the spot,' 'speaking more slowly and less gracefully.'"

Dr. Price suggests that "not being a professional medical researcher and clinician, Fallows cannot be faulted for not putting two and two together. But he was 100 percent correct in suggesting that Bush's problem cannot be 'a learning disability, a reading problem, dyslexia,' because patients with those problems have always had them." The doctor. goes on to say, "Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President , can represent only one diagnosis, and that is 'presenile dementia'! Presenile dementia is best described to nonmedical persons as a fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly earlier in life, well before what is usually considered old age."

<more>
<link> http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/091804Mazza/091804mazza.html

[spindoctor]

8. It's the Reagan gene

Maybe there is something Barb needs to tell George Herbert?

[dalloway]

63. or maybe the mind-control Tang he's been getting with breakfast

from Cheney every morning is laced with something with TERRIBLE side effects that only start showing up with an accumulation of the compound.

[BlueEyedSon]

13. Post this as a separate thread and ill nominate it

[Karenina]

17. It has been watched

FOR YEARS. Videos of the *dauphin's "oratory" skills 10 years ago and a few years ago were recently posted in GD. I can't fucking find it! :cry: :argh: Can one of you kidlinks hep yer ol' Tante out? :argh:

[Synnical]

42. You can view the video here

http://www.adbuzz.com/bushbuzz.htm

[Karenina]

66. Smooch!

TY, Synnical!

[newportdadde]

31. There was a video of his previous debate for Gov. last summer.

It was fascinating to watch... if you didn't know better you would think it was a different person.

[Patty Diana]

43. Video Name__BushTenYearsAgo But I can't remember where

I downloaded it from. Try google video search

[nickinSTL]

6. "enjoying the lowest unemployment rate of all time"

:mad::puke: :wtf: :argh: :banghead:

Sorry about the smilie overload...but ARRGH!

How the F*#^! can that * SAY that?!!?

I hope they play that clip ENDLESSLY...that'd drop his approval rating under 20%! (wishful thinking, I know)

[Tsiyu]

7. What world does * live in?

I'd estimate unemployment at 25%, seriously, if you count those "underemployed" it's higher - those working shit jobs part time because there isn't anything else....


The Resident is really off his rocker now

[BuelahWitch]

12. If they say it enough it's "truth"

Another new "meme" :scared:

[BlueEyedSon]

9. Real rate 9-10%, inner city black males at 50%

[MuseRider]

10. Speech writer joke?

Are they watching and taking bets that he will catch it or not?

[anarch]

11. "me have mandate..."

"me most popular president ever! me bring freedom and democracy to whole world...me make economy stroooong."

:puke:

[senseandsensibility]

15. LOL

Welcome to DU, anarch! We need more laughs around here!:hi:

[Oversea Visitor]

16. Uck

You been reading my angry child posting

[musette_sf]

22. Tarzan, Tonto, Frankenstein,

and Georgie Butch.

:hi: welcome to DU!

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Huh?!?!?!?!?

It was more than 20% lower than it is now, just 10 years ago, and that's without the elimination of 100,000 people who've given up and aren't on the UE Insurance rolls anymore.

That is truly a complete fabrication. Even the Labor Department's barely valid statistics don't support this complete lie.
The Professor

[TahitiNut]

24. It was jaw-dropping stunning to me ... even knowing he's delusional.

His shit-for-brains sycophants swallow this fecal matter whole and smear it over the wall of their hollowed skulls. It's just incredible!

[Toots]

18. Well if the great bush* said it, it must be true

Americans know that Bush* would never ever lie about anything. :sarcasm:

[moondust]

20. Throw him in the cage with Saddam.

Throw away the key.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

34. Jebus!

I mean, I dislike Sadam as much as the next guy, but I really think it would be inhuman to force him to share a cage with Bush. A pack of rabid ferrets, yes. But, really. Bush?

On Edit: Watch "The Daily Show" tonight -- it will probably be the only place in the MSM where his idiotic statement gets challenged. Pretty sad commentary, no?

[ComerPerro]

21. "The President mispoke" or "What the President meant"

That is what you will be hearing soon.

But this is incredibly disturbing. He is setting up campaign ads!

I am convinced that you will see Bush saying this in ads in the future. You will find a clip of Bush saying that, and then a crowd of "average, working class" people, probably some troops too, will cheer.

And suddenly it will become true, just because it sounds so good.

[havocmom]

25. What fun if Sorros and Buffet would buy bus tickets for every unemployeed

person in the US for a trip to DC! That'd be bush*s mandate. Then the next week, we could send him all the nderemployeed Hard for MSM to miss a crowd like that.

[RussBLib]

26. Show me the quote - n/t

[LynnTheDem]

32. Go turn on your TV.

Please & thanks.

[RussBLib]

33. Hard to do at work - n/t

[LynnTheDem]

35. Then you're stuck until the media publishes the interview.

Coz as the original poster pointed out, it's on the TV.

[Name removed]

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[LynnTheDem]

47. That's what BUSH does, he misinforms people.

Don't even go there if you're trying to say he never said that, and the original poster is just "planting" "disinformation" to "spin people".

Go there, and I can guess pretty darn good where you'll go.

[RussBLib]

64. So, has anyone found the quote in print yet?

Did anyone TIVO it? Have it on a VCR? Let's see it.

I'm sure you're right. No one would ever plant any disinformation on a site such as this. (sarcasm)

In fact, no one would ever make a mistake either. (sarcasm)

The fact that my posts were deleted is rather distressing, and in my opinion, shows how far down the rathole we've all gone.

Where is any confirmation of such a ludicrous quote by Bush? Granted, he lies about practically everything, but to lie about something so freakin' easy to disprove, I would think is even beyond him.

Wouldn't be the first time I was wrong, however. Just asking for some proof. But I guess that's not necessary anymore.

Don't worry, I'm closing the door on my way out.

[donco6]

27. Proof of lies from Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LNS14000000

How on earth he could make that claim is beyond me.

[patricia92243]

28. MSNBC footed thequote for five minutes - sounds like they agree with what

he was saying and were advertising it for him - as usual.

[Coexist]

40. That's what I thought.

Is anyone on now bebunking it. How could they have highlighted that? That is obscene.

[HughBeaumont]

29. First of all, the UR is extremely cooked as it is.

Second of all, I guess I must not have lived during the Clinton years, where the UR at it's lowest battered this Chimp's joke of a number completely.

The U6 Number (counting those no longer looking for work and part timers seeking full time employment among others) is 8.9% at last check, and that's actually down from the regular mid-9's - 10% it's been throughout Satan Simian's occupation. It's pretty damned shitty by any account.

Is he starting to turn into Queen Edgar Hoover - so brazen that he just flat out doesn't CARE what people have on him, because he's surrounded by a cabal that can end lives with a phone call, that can ruin lives with a board room session? It's almost as if he's struttin' like Tupac.

[losdiablosgato]

30. To bad those jobs have no beni's and pay crap

[fishwax]

36. They probably couldn't bear to break his approval ratings to him, so

they said "uh, your majesty, we've got really low, uh ... unemployment numbers. Yeah, that's it. Lowest unemployment numbers of all time."

[leftofthedial]

37. And I piss lemonade

[oasis]

38. Lowest presidential approval rating of all time. I'll but that. (eom)

[FreedomAngel82]

39. Is he in another country???

[Patty Diana]

41. Lot of econmist have the unemployment rate at over 13% what with

all those underemployed and those who just gave up looking

[leftchick]

44. oh TN... you have out done yourself!

"C-czar Disgustsus"!!!

:rofl:

[TahitiNut]

60. (grin) It's REALLY hard to find an appropriate way to refer to him ...

... that comes anywhere close to how appallingly disgusting he is to me. He's not just an 'embarrassment' - he's a humiliation to any sane, rational person who'd call themselves an American, imho.

[Name removed]

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[TahitiNut]

48. They scrubbed his verbal fart ....

From the White Haus site ...

<snip>

Over the past two years, America has added more than 3.5 million new jobs. The unemployment rate is down to 5.1 percent. That's lower than the average rate in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s. (***)

In Maryland, the unemployment is 4.2 percent. People are working. I'm proud to report that more Americans are working today than ever before in our nation's history.

<snip>

*** This is where he said it, as I recall. There's no question he said it. It clearly shows how these carefully-contrived "facts" (hardly even half-truths) are designed to give a false impression - an impression that Disgustsus hisself can't separate from reality.


Let's get the facts straight ...

• Fewer people are employed in the private sector today, and during the entire time since Bush* was selected, than were employed in the last months of the Clinton/Gore administration.
  
  
• Between November 2000 and May 2005, the unadjusted number of private sector jobs decreased by 1.9% (2,098,000 people)
  
  
• Between December 2000 and May 2005, the adjusted ("cooked") number of private sector jobs decreased by 82,000 people.
  
  
• Over the same period (December 2000 to May 2005), an average growth in employment would yield over 10,000,000 private sector jobs.

[LynnTheDem]

49. Like they did with "combat ops over" to "major combat ops over"

And several other speeches they've "tweaked".

[TahitiNut]

50. and ....

According to the understated numbers kept by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ...

• Between January 2001 and November 2003, the number of unemployed people increased by 43.8% (2,634,000 people)
  
  
• Between January 2001 and May 2005, the number of unemployed people increased by 27.1% (1,630,000 people)
  

So, George Dubya Bush can go fuck his sorry, sociopathic self! That goes double for his handlers, enablers, and sycophants!

[central scrutinizer]

55. but, in that uniquely American way

We have the highest percentage of people working at 3 or more part-time, no-benefit, minimum-wage jobs and they still have to choose whether to pay the rent or buy food each week. Yep, the old trickle-down, homophonically appropriately named Laffer Curve is working in hyper drive.

[July]

52. Is that "average rate" remark even true?

The numbers posted above (from the BLS) start w/1995, so I can't tell if this new version of what Bush said is correct, but the numbers that are there for the latter part of the nineties suggest he may have this wrong, too.

What's the purpose of phrasing it this way?

[TahitiNut]

57. It's "true" if one accepts the BLS numbers.

First of all, one must understand that every time they modify the statistical methods and assumptions for collecting and calculating these numbers, they only re-state prior numbers for a limited time. Thus, comparing numbers from differing decades is like comparing tangerines to oranges by weight or size.

So, accepting the BLS's reported unemployment rates, ...

• The average (monthly) unemployment rate in the 70's was 6.2%
  
• The average (monthly) unemployment rate in the 80's was 7.3%
  
• The average (monthly) unemployment rate in the 90's was 5.8%
  
• The reported unemployment rate in May 2005 was 5.1%
  

But let's look a bit further, ...

• The average unemployment rate was 4.4% in the Truman administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 4.3% in the first Eisenhower administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 5.5% in the second Eisenhower administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 5.8% in the Kennedy/Johnson administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 3.9% in the Johnson administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 5.0% in the Nixon administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 6.7% in the Nixon/Ford administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 6.5% in the Carter administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 8.6% in the first Reagan administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 6.5% in the second Reagan administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 6.3% in the GHW Bush administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 6.0% in the first Clinton administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 4.4% in the second Clinton administration
  
• The average unemployment rate was 5.5% in the first GW Bush administration
  

So, the high(er) unemployment rates in those decades can be clearly attributed to GOP adminstrations during those years. (See bold above.)


Now, let's look at the average number of people who were unemployed, ...

• During the Carter administration, an average of 6,740,000 people were unemployed.
  
• During the first Reagan administration, an average of 9,554,000 people were unemployed.
  
• During the second Reagan administration, an average of 7,667,000 people were unemployed.
  
• During the "Poppy" Bush administration, an average of 7,959,000 people were unemployed.
  
• During the first Clinton administration, an average of 7,885,000 people were unemployed.
  
• During the second Clinton administration, an average of 6,124,000 people were unemployed.
  
• During the first Chimp/Dick administration, an average of 8,032,000 people were unemployed.
  

Note: All these numbers are as (currently) reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, subject to "revision" of course.

[Ezlivin]

51. HE IS RIGHT

Because he meant that the figures referred to the unemployment rate of his followers.

Everyone he sees at his Town Hall Meetings® is employed!

[Deja Q]

53. I heard a manufacturing company in NY is laying off 900 workers...

Yeah, great economy.

[senseandsensibility]

54. kick

Just cuz I think we should all know about this, and something tells me it won't be featured on the whore shows. Plus it's funny in a sick way.

[mbee]

56. Did he tell you the unemployed numbers have been transferred

the welfare numbers and welfare numbers are not allowed!

[geniph]

59. The Big Lie technique is alive and well

apparently, people will swallow any horseshit as unvarnished truth so long as you repeat it loudly and often enough.

ALL IS WELL, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG PEOPLE.

[area51]

61. "lowest unemployment rate of ALL TIME"

Jeebus, how fscking insane. For one thing, many people who have spouses (still employed) or are living w/relatives have stopped looking for a job. There are people on DU who've been unemployed for years.

[WePurrsevere]

62. Maybe he meant that...

whatever countries we've outsourced so many of our jobs to has "the lowest unemployment rate of all time". :sarcasm: It sure as heck isn't here.

As for Americans believing him on that idoitic and blatently false statement, I just don't think the majority won't buy that one. Those that are employed look reality in the face every day as many worry just how secure their positions and jobs really are from layoffs, cutbacks, "outsourcing", etc. With over 1 out of 20 people unemployed (not to mention under employed or not counted any more) many Americans probably personally know folks who are unemployed or under employed.

Of course it could be worse (in comparison to another area of the world)... When I went to double check my data on American unemployment I found a site that says Iraqi unemployment is 70% (and that it's gone from bad to worse). Gee... do you think that might be because our government has BLOWN UP so many businesses that employed these people? 70% with how much of a chance to find a job? 70% desparate and angry people struggling to feed their children.. oh yeah.. we're doing such GREAT things over there :sarcasm:

[KoKo]

65. I'm kicking because "DU'er Tahiti" gave me a "feel good."

And, since I'm picking up that so many of us are down in the "Gloom and Doom Dungeon" I loved Tahiti's post...because it gave me a "light moment" in my OWN Doom and Gloom.

He has a great rant...:rofl:

Some of us need those :rolf: