True But False

Ace posted this morning about a Washington Post Fact-Check on RNC Claims that Obama’s economy has been disproportionately hard on women. As Ace points out, the RNC’s claim is simple:

“For far too long women have been left behind in Obama’s job market. Of the 740,000 jobs lost since Obama took office, 683,000 of them were held by women. That is truly unsustainable.”

The WaPo Fact Checkers respond:

We cannot fault the RNC’s math, as the numbers add up. But at this point this figure doesn’t mean very much. It may simply a function of a coincidence of timing — a brief blip that could have little to do with “Obama’s job market.”If trends hold up over the next few months, then the RNC might have a better case. But at this point we will give this statistic our rarely used label:

TRUE BUT FALSE

Yep. Positive is negative. Up is down. And Shut Up, Republicans!

You just can’t make this stuff up.

[Added:] Patterico has weighed in.

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One Response to True But False

  1. Steve says:

    We have Rush Limbaugh’s monologue detailing President Obama’s War on Women posted now:

    http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2012/04/rush-limbaugh-and-war-on-women.html

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