[FreeAtlanta]

I don’t understand the “conservatives” that are playing along with it on tv. I watched Dobbs make fun of Welch for questioning these ridiculous numbers. WTH?

[txrangerette]

Don’t know what Dobbs said, but Kudlow took the same view that Welch was wrong for saying this.

I’ll take a stab at why. There is no way to prove these numbers were cooked. But to say anyway that they were, makes the focus on charges of cooked numbers, unprovable.

Whereas, Kudlow’s point and those of his guests was that the numbers are flukes, misleading, paint an erroneous picture of a terrible economy, and they set about to explain why. Their explanations weren’t that difficult to follow. They were pretty simple.

Therefore, they think it’s a red herring to chase the cooked numbers theory when theory is all it would ever amount to.

They want to nail the bad economy.

They want to nail Obama for running around shouting lies to dumbed-down audiences that these numbers show economic progress, when nothing could be further from the truth.

[Sudetenland]

The problem with what Welch did is that, even though everyone knows this is a fiction, you just can't make unsupported allegations of that magnitude without substantial and irrefutable evidence . . . the American people will always be repulsed by that. Even if they have the suspicion that it may be true, they inherently believe the best of people.

It's sort of a corollary to "The Big Lie." People don't want to believe the bad about others. They like to believe that everyone is just as honest and straightforward as they.

It's how con-men make a living . . . and how Democrats keep getting elected . . . but I repeat myself. :)