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 “I should have put a question mark on the end of that, let’s face it,” Welch said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. 
 
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 Welch, a frequent critic of President Barack Obama, implied that the jobs numbers released Friday — notably the 7.8 percent unemployment rate — were tweaked to help the president’s reelection campaign (a sentiment many conservatives have echoed). 
 
 “Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers,” Welch tweeted early Friday. 
 
 Many conservatives have echoed Welch’s sentiments including businessman and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, who tweeted Saturday: “Welch is right.” 
 
 Welch said he questioned the “implausible” numbers as they were the “highest household employment numbers since 1983.” 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: Conservatives: Job numbers are phony) 
 
 “Maybe their numbers were wrong before, maybe they’re wrong now but I don’t know. I am involved in this economy in a very deep way right now with lots of businesses. And this economy is not growing, I guarantee, you at 5 percent,” Welch said. 
 
 When pushed by Cooper on whether he was directly accusing the Obama administration of rigging the numbers, Welch said he had “no evidence” and was “not accusing anybody of anything” but reasserted his belief that the numbers in the report were not possible. “I’m not backing away, I’m not backing away from anything,” he said. 
 
 In a testy exchange, Cooper asked Welch whether it was “irresponsible” to say “these Chicago guys will do anything” if Welch has “no facts.” 
 
 “It’s too important to not have a long discussion about how it’s arrived and what the assumptions are,” Welch answered. 
 
 Earlier Friday in a face-off with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Welch also refused to back down. 
 
 “These numbers defy logic. They defy logic. We do not have a 4 to 5 percent booming economy,” Welch told Matthews. 
 
 “This is an assertion that there was Jimmy-ing with the numbers, that there was corruption here, an infiltration or getting to — it’s not funny, Jack,” Matthews said. “You’re talking about the president of the United States playing with the Bureau of Labor statistics number. This is Nixon stuff. This is what Nixon did back in the old days.” 
 
 “Chris, don’t lose it now,” Welch said. 
 
 “I’m not losing it. Look at my face. I’m not losing it,” Welch said. 
 
 “I can’t see your face,” Welch said. 
 
 “Do you want to take back the charge that there was corruption here?” Matthews said. 
 
 “No, I don’t want to take back one word in that tweet,” Welch said. 
 
 Welch, 76, also appeared on Fox News on Friday afternoon and said he wasn’t “senile” — just asking tough questions. 
 
 “Those that don’t like to agree with me say that I am old and senile but it is about asking questions. Does the economy feel like the employment has improved by 6 percent in the last 60 days?” Welch said on Fox. 
 
 He added: “You have ideologues in two areas of the government, in the EPA and in Labor, but we’re supposed to assume that the Labor Department could be ideological, but the labor statistics aren’t?” ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Jack Welch defends his tweet, says he should have added a question mark 
 
 After his controversial tweet questioning the drop in unemployment numbers, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, told Anderson Cooper that the numbers presented today are “implausible” and that while he is not backing away from his tweet, he wishes he “ added a question mark” to his tweet. 
 
 Things got a bit heated when CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent Ali Velshi joined the conversation and said that Welch is “ the best CEO is America” but went on to say that “ to say something like this is like Donald Trump saying that president Obama is not an American citizen without any proof. You are Jack Welch, jack, you gotta take this opportunity while everybody is listening to you to actually say: yes, Anderson I’m taking that tweet back. I’m gonna send a new tweet to say I was exaggerating. There are problems BLS maybe should look into it but to actually throw out an accusation that’s like asking the government how often do you beat your wife” 
 
 Video links below to the interview below. Please credit all usage to Anderson Cooper 360° 
 
 Jack Welch interview part 1 ||||| So the unemployment rate truthers are in a panic this morning. Some conservatives are angrily claiming that the new Labor Department stats finding unemployment below eight percent were cooked to help Obama win reelection. 
 
 The Tweet from former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is gaining the most attention: “Unbelievable jobs numbers...these Chicago guys will do anything...can’t debate so change numbers.” The refrain has been picked up by conservative Republicans in Congress and CNBC contributors. Fox News’s homepage blares: “Jobless rate dips under 8 percent, but...IS THE NUMBER REAL?” 
 
 Ezra Klein debunks the whole thing, as if it needs debunking. But it’s also worth noting that it’s hard to see how the unemployment truthers are helping Mitt Romney here. By launching into a full blown angry panic about improving jobs numbers, they only draw attention to, and reinforce, the idea that the economy is, in fact, improving — and, worse, that the prospect of economic improvement is terrible news for Romney’s presidential prospects. 
 
 Here is Romney policy director Lanhee Chen, trying to get a sane message out about the new employment numbers, but finding his efforts cluttered up by his questioner’s insistence that he endorse unemployment trutherism. Chen distances the campaign from it: 
 
 This is the latest manifestation of what Jonathan Bernstein has called the closed conservative information feedback loop. There were the poll truthers, who told us that any Obama lead simply must be the result a liberal media conspiracy to rig all the polls to create a false sense of an inevitable Obama victory. Only Rasmussen and Gallup are telling the truth. Oh, wait — Gallup shows Obama ahead now. So those numbers can’t possibly be true, either. 
 
 Then there was the release of the Drudge race-baiting tape of six-year-old Obama comments. Some on the far right were convinced this would badly damage the president, because they think swing voters are prone to seeing Obama as they do. But these voters probably don’t find the idea that Obama is secretly committed to widespread racial revenge too convincing. Indeed, this, too, was an unhelpful distraction for the Romney camp, which properly downplayed the tape’s news value. 
 
 This latest — unemployment trutherism — strikes me as having the potential to be a bit more damaging to Romney. It’s very likely that these claims are now going to break through to the nightly news, drawing still more attention to the dropping unemployment rate. 
 
 Of course, there’s always the danger that news outlets will cover this stuff in a he-said-she-said manner, reporting on the assertions of the unemployment truthers without calling them out, thus injecting them into the discourse. But that seems unlikely. This is really out there stuff, and hopefully the networks will say so outright. If so, it’s hard to see how it’s helpful to Romney for undecided voters to be treated to the sight of fury and panic about improving economic news among those who want him to be elected president.
– Former GE chief Jack Welch became the face of the latest trutherism movement yesterday when he tweeted that the new jobs numbers were too good to be true—"these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers," it read. He said on CNN last night that he "should have put a question mark" on the tweet but stood by his assertion that he thinks the figures defy logic, reports Politico. His go-round with Anderson Cooper left Cooper sounding a little exasperated at times. "I'm not accusing anybody of anything," Welch says at one point, before again standing by the tweet in which he seems to do just that. "I'm not backing away." Welch made the rounds of media outlets earlier in the day standing by the comments. “I am doing nothing more than raising the question,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s fact-based.” At the Washington Post, Greg Sargent thinks this "unemployment trutherism" is doing Mitt Romney no favors. "This is really out there stuff," he writes, and it's just drawing more attention to the falling unemployment rate.