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Fox News: "149 MIL AMERICANS ARE UNEMPLOYED"

October 02, 2009 7:51 am ET by Media Matters staff

From the October 2 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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Fox News is off by just 134.1 million.

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (October 02, 2009 8:04 am ET)
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      The figure could be accurate...I mean, 100% of the kids at the day care center around the corner are unemployed.
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      • Author by raine315 (October 02, 2009 8:10 am ET)
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        Yeah I have a 3 year old slacker sitting on my lap as i type this now- she says they are not hiring down on Sesame Street
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      • Author by worrierking (October 02, 2009 8:25 am ET)
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        Now, maybe we'll realize where and how we went wrong. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was no need for school lunch programs or after school programs. No one had to put their kids in day care or take advantage of any of the other communist inspired programs we offer young parents today.

        It's 10 PM, do you know where your children are?

        Damned right I do. They're working the swing shift at the steel mill.
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      • Author by RKAllen (October 02, 2009 10:37 am ET)
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        Not to mention all those lazy, retired, senior citizens. Throw in the sick, the injured, or the disabled... the incarcerated, the institutionalized, and the incapacitated... and we have a real problem.

        I mean, think about it. If we somehow cure people of injury and illness, solve the criminal element that exists in this country, develop a pill for insanity, and stop all Americans from aging, then we are totally screwed.

        149 million might be an understatement. I for one appreciate the oracles of Fox for peering so deeply into our grim future where half of our population is deemed unemployed.
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    • Author by walstib (October 02, 2009 8:04 am ET)
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      Man, I need that chyron (sp?) operator's job.

      Errors are encouraged and it seems you cannot be fired no matter how badly you mess up.

      Beers for lunch every day, typing with my toes, utilizing all of my sophmoric humor skillz...

      Man oh man, dare to dream I guess...
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      • Author by MickD (October 02, 2009 8:41 am ET)
           
        Don't forget they get to go to the special Heritage Foundation fax machine for copying and promotion purposes.
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    • Author by New Frontier (October 02, 2009 8:22 am ET)
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      Well this explains how FOX Nation's "two million" were able to show up for the 9/12 D.C. tea party.
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    • Author by terrapin53 (October 02, 2009 9:22 am ET)
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      I wish the 4 in that picture were part of the that 149 million. Does anyone expect anything different from Fox.
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    • Author by oscar the grouch (October 02, 2009 9:28 am ET)
         
      A decimal point here, a decimal point there. Probably an ex-estimator that put the decimal point in the wrong place on a bid and broke the company.
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      • Author by Max Credits (October 02, 2009 9:32 am ET)
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        Wow, that's some decimal point! Able to turn 15.1 million into 149 million.
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    • Author by papa bear3 (October 02, 2009 9:43 am ET)
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      this is the new "Fox-math"

      an ounce of propaganda is worth a pound of truth?
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    • Author by goesto11 (October 02, 2009 11:11 am ET)
         
      Dudes, you're reading this all wrong.

      It's a typo, all right. But it was actually supposed to say "149 MILF Americans Are Unemployed."

      They're talking about hot soccer moms. Duh.
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    • Author by pbrauer (October 02, 2009 11:36 am ET)
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      The real shocking part is the dolts who watch and believe what they see and hear.
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    • Author by sonnyjames (October 02, 2009 11:49 am ET)
         
      Couldn't agree with you more Pbrauer.....
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    • Author by steeve (October 02, 2009 11:51 am ET)
         
      It's all a conspiracy. Nobody's unemployed.

      Bush slashed taxes on the rich, and everybody knows that creates tons of jobs. Not like when Clinton raised taxes on the rich and unemployment soared to a whopping 3.9%.
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    • Author by Texas Aggie (October 03, 2009 12:36 am ET)
         
      You guys don't understand. The abbreviation "mil" implies thousands, not millions, as in milligram (a thousandth of a gram) or millisecond (a thousandth of a second) or millimeter (a thousandth of a meter). What Fox is saying is that there are 149,000 people unemployed in America. All hail the Bush tax cuts for reducing unemployment!!! Whoop, whoop!!
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    • Author by Tbone Slickens (October 03, 2009 9:22 am ET)
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      Ha-Ha...laugh...yeah. It doesn't change the fact that unemployment will rise over 10% by years end and who knows where it will stop?

      I guess it's all fun and games now. Mid-terms with double digit unemployment...we'll see if those smirks hold up then!
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