In an Oct. 5 NewsBusters post, Mark Finkelstein approvingly quotes CNBC’s Rick Santelli casting doubt on newly released unemployment numbers, adding: “The Obama campaign is sure to jump on the news today–but Santelli has put a big question mark over the validity of the data.”
Finkelstein and Santelli are buying into the right-wing conspiracy theory that the Obama administration somehow tinkered with unemployment data in order to make it look good before the November election. In fact, actual experts agree that the numbers have not been manipulated.
Embracing conspiracy theories is hardly telling the truth, is it?