Press Lets Earnest Claim 805,000 Manufacturing Jobs Gained Under Obama; 303,000 Jobs Have Been Lost

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Press Lets Earnest Claim 805,000 Manufacturing Jobs Gained Under Obama; 303,000 Jobs Have Been Lost
By Tom Blumer | December 1, 2016 | 11:56 AM EST


At Wednesday's White House press briefing, Obama administration Press Secretary Josh Earnest, in a fit of completely unsupported arrogance, claimed that 805,000 jobs have been created "while President Obama was in office," and that "President Obama has set a high standard" in that regard.

The lazy stenographers posing as journalists present at the briefing, along with other reporters covering Carrier Corp.'s decision not to move its Indianapolis manufacturing jobs to Mexico, have failed to recognize what anyone whose job it has been to follow the economy during the Obama administration should know, namely that the economy, through October 2016, has fewer manufacturing jobs now than it did when President Obama took office in January 2009.

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Steve Ratner really surprised me this morning on Morning Joe. During their discussion of Earnest's remarks, he asked his fellow panel members, "of the 1.8 million jobs created this year, how many were in manufacturing?" The answers he got ranged from 50K to 300K.

He said, "you're all wrong, there's been a net loss of 63,000 manufacturing jobs in 2016."

They had to go to break, thanks to all of the crickets that appeared in the studio.