{"id":916,"date":"2012-10-05T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/05\/what-took-em-so-long"},"modified":"2012-10-05T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T19:04:00","slug":"what-took-em-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"What took \u2018em so long?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/05\/news\/economy\/welch-unemployment-rate\/index.html?source=cnn_bin\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/05\/news\/economy\/welch-unemployment-rate\/index.html?source=cnn_bin\">http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/05\/news\/economy\/welch-unemployment-rate\/index.html?source=cnn_bin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a bit surprised it took this long for someone to level the charge that Jack Welch, former head of GE, has leveled at the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>Welch said the jobless numbers released today have been cooked up to make President Obama look good. He doubts the veracity of the report that joblessness fell to 7.8 percent, the lowest race since Obama took office. The jobless rate this past month was 8.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve long pondered whether these numbers could be verified independently, or whether the media just accept the figures handed to them by the U.S. Department of Labor. Do I necessarily believe that the figures are rigged, as Welch has suggested? No.<\/p>\n<p>As a believer in a free press and one who dismisses the notion that the \u201cmainstream media\u201d have some insidious liberal bias, I tend to take Labor Department figures at face value. I also believe that the media would report independently whether the feds are rigging these outcomes. <\/p>\n<p>And lest we forget, the \u201cmainstream media\u201d also include plenty of conservative outlets \u2013 both print and online \u2013 who would spare no expense or effort to embarrass those on the other end of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>If there was any funny business, don\u2019t think for an instant that conservative talkers wouldn\u2019t blow the whistle.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/05\/news\/economy\/welch-unemployment-rate\/index.html?source=cnn_bin I\u2019m a bit surprised it took this long for someone to level the charge that Jack Welch, former head of GE, has leveled at the Obama administration. Welch said the jobless numbers released today have been cooked up to make President Obama look good. He doubts the veracity of the report that joblessness fell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What took \u2018em so long?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}