Bachmann's Also a Liar

...and in that, typical of the right wing's use of omission propaganda.

Notice in this still, taken from the video of her post SOTU address for the Tea Party below, that the chart she displays to blame Obama for the spike in unemployment is numbered only in odd years and doesn't show 2008.

This has the effect of making the increase in 2009 - which had more to do with the momentum of the polcies of the Bush years and financial disaster than Obama's policies which had yet to kick in - look much steeper than if 2008 was included on the chart.
And as Obama policies do start to kick she says nothing about falling unemployment rates that follow.

Let's look at the job losses that occurred in 2008, the last year of the Bush administration :

The momentum of unemployment after the 2008 financial disaster which would naturally carry over into Obama's first year in office is clear.

But what is also clear in Bachmann's chart, but totally unaddressed by her, is the fall in unemployment rates after Obama's policies have started. Economic momentum can't be turned around on a dime, its not like a speed boat, its more like an aircraft carrier.

So essentially the chart Bachmann is using is misleading and and was constructed that way intentionally...as is everything people like Bachmann and the right wing disseminate. Unless they are completely ignorant, then they are liars. In Bachmann's case, its likely both.

And that's just a tiny part of the whole cloth idiocy she spewed...here's the rest. See how many more such misdirections and outright lies you can spot.

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