Hannity Claims Bush Gave Obama 5.6 Unemployment Rate

In what can only be a lie of gigantic proportions, Fox News host Sean Hannity exceedingly bragged that President Obama inherited a 5.6% unemployment rate from George W. Bush.



This is just hysterical. As County Fair notes, the unemployment rate in Dec. of 2008 was 7.2%.  By January 2009 it was 7.6%. 

Such lies, however, is the very purpose of Fox News.  It's their Mission Statement.  It is why they are the Gatekeepers of the Republican Fantasy World.  Millions of people watch their network.  They hear Uber Patriot Sean Hannity say George Bush gave Obama an unemployment rate at 5.6% and then the good little Republican viewers that they are, go out into the public and repeat such lies.  It's how it works.  It is the purpose of their existence.

As you'll recall, last year Hannity bragged about Bush creating 10 million new jobs.  Of course that never happened.  Total net job creation under the reign of King George II was zero.  The worst since the Great Depression.  But not in the Republican Fantasy World.  He created 10 million new jobs.  Gave Obama a 5.6% unemployment rate and turned over an economy as strong as ever.

This is what Republicans really believe.  Just talk to one of them and you'll quickly learn they really believe it.