"True But False" -or- Media Beclowns Self In Pro-Obama Bias

Are Obama’s job policies hurting women? - The Washington Post:

Obama has been talking about a War on Women the GOP is supposedly fighting (mostly because Republicans aren't trying to destroy the First Amendment) and the GOP is responding (!) with facts. Of the 740,000 jobs lost since Obama took office, 683,000 of them were held by women. -GOP

There are a few 'fact checker' columns or sites the media promotes and they usually have a strong bias for Democrats and a strong bias against conservatives and the GOP. This fact-checking is done by the Washington Post, one of the top newspapers in America. The fact above is true: the economy is still under 740,000 jobs* since Obama took office and there are 683,000 fewer employed women. The administration's figures are used for this fact. It's a bad fact for Obama to deal with, that his failed policies have been especially hard on women. So how does the Washington Post rate this official government statistic?

True But False.

Huh? Well, sure, the facts are true and the statistics are official government ones. But the GOP started the job-counting at the beginning of Obama's presidency, not when the stimulus that didn't work happened. They then compare apples and oranges or 'number of jobs total' with 'number of jobs created during the Obama administration, whether or not they were temporary.' So, yes, the GOP is correct but, if you look at something else, something the GOP didn't claim, the thing the GOP didn't claim would have been false if they had claimed it but they didn't. But if they had, it would have been wrong. So they lied about something they didn't say or imply but aren't wrong about the thing they said. So the Washington Post is Biased but Beclowned.

* I might make this into a whole post, but the Obama administration doesn't count unemployed people as unemployed. See, they count U-6 as unemployed. What's U-6? People that have been unemployed for under six months and are getting state unemployment. Obama started giving people unemployed over six months federal unemployment. You might remember charges in 2010-2011 that the GOP was going to cut benefits for the unemployed, but that was just the administration extending unemployment from six months to two years. People unemployed for between six months and two years don't count on the official unemployment register. After two years, when they lose their unemployment? They don't count as unemployed, either, but as people not participating in the job market. The raw number of people working in the US is lower than at any time since the Reagan administration when the population was 25% less. This is a huge deal because we've managed to lose thirty years worth of jobs. I'll have to make this a major post sometime soon because it's a huge deal.

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