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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (28339)	9/22/2012 10:04:47 AM
From: longnshort	4 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

the economy is collapsing and the middle east is exploding because of the incompetency of Obama and you want to see romney's last couple of years tax returns or you won't vote for him. I really think your right to vote should be taken away, you don't deserve it

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (28339)	9/22/2012 10:24:53 AM
From: Paul Smith	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

unless he released 6 more years of taxes. The fact that you think that crazy request alone trumps all of Obama's failures says a lot. Of course you don't care about all the stuff Obama doesn't disclose because he always gets a pass. Your emotional investment in your 2008 mistake is very strong.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (28339)

9/22/2012 11:29:16 AM

From: longnshort

3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

steve's hero Tingles.

Chris Matthews Says 'Unemployment Was Well Past 10%' When Obama Took Office - It Was Only 7.8%

By Noel Sheppard | September 22, 2012 | 09:44

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"When your guy left town, Dubya - who nobody asked him to come back by the way at the Republican convention - unemployment was well past ten percent and skyrocketing."

So falsely said MSNBC's Chris Matthews to conservative talk radio host Roger Hedgecock on HBO's Real Time Friday (video follows with commentary):

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Well past ten percent? Hardly!

According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in January 2009 when George W. Bush left office. It didn't get to ten percent until October of that year:

This is an indisputable fact. There's no grey area here. Unemployment was at 7.8 percent in January 2009.

Yet Chris Matthews, a long-time commentator for NBC News who infamously bragged about Obama giving him a thrill up his leg while proudly claiming right after the 2008 elections that it was his job to make the new president successful, went on national television Friday and said "unemployment was well past ten percent" when Bush left office.

Is this the caliber of reporting NBC News wants?

Consider that this is the same so-called "news outlet" that earlier this year was caught editing George Zimmerman's 911 phone call to make him look like a racist.

A few months later, long-time NBC staple Andrea Mitchell played a selectively-edited video on her MSNBC program that depicted Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as an out of touch moron.

Read more: newsbusters.org