"During the January 12 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier, Fox News senior White House correspondent Major Garrett falsely accused President-elect Barack Obama of making a false statement when Obama said in a January 11 interview on ABC's This Week that the 2.589 million jobs lost in 2008 were "the most since World War II." In fact, in raw numbers, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there has been no greater net job decline in any calendar year since the end of World War II than occurred in 2008.
Garrett said of Obama's comments: "Mr. Obama says the 2.6 million jobs lost last year was the worst since 1945. Is that true? No." Garrett continued:
"Last year's job losses were the fifth worst since 1945. The key statistic is percentage of workforce laid off, meaning the number of layoffs as a percentage of the entire workforce. In 1945, 6.6 percent of workers lost their jobs. Last year, 1.9 percent lost their jobs. Are things bad now? Of course they are. As bad as 1945? No. And four years -- four other years between then and now were much worse than what we've just gone through."
Rather than note that he was using a different index from Obama -- percentage loss rather than net loss -- Garrett simply accused Obama of a falsehood."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200901130021
Obviously, over at Fox, they're tearing apart everything Barack says, hoping to catch him lying. That's good - we have learned that we want our presidents to be truthful. But they seem to be taking it one step further. They are actively looking for ways to make his truthful statements into lies. Now why would they do that?
Major Garrett falsely accused Obama of making a false statement re jobs
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