[TheRealThing]

You lied and vector caught you. As he correctly explained, you took a perfectly good number for the number of mining jobs created since 2016 and inserted the word coal in great big bold letters in front of the word "mining." The article may be 100 percent correct, but you were and insist on continuing to be 100 percent wrong.

Here is some news that you can use to avoid embarrassing yourself with such pitiful lies in the future. The Labor Department is the parent agency of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The article in The Hill that you cited as your source - yes, the article that you claimed as your source (before and then after you blamed poor David Asman for your lie) cited the Labor Department as its source. Of course, the BLS is that part of the Labor Department responsible for tracking and reporting employment statistics.

These talking heads on whose every word you hang are reporters and when they report employment numbers, they are almost always based on the monthly jobs report released by the BLS. Even vector and Motley know that is true.

BTW, SourceWatch is part of left wing activist group partially funded by both George Soros and the Tides Foundation...any red herring in a storm, I suppose. nicker:

Well since we’re dragging other people into this, Luke Skywalker said it best
when he summed you up a couple years back, you’ve ‘lost it’ end of story. One minute you’re trying to say I made things up. The next you admit the number came from the source I quoted. But naturally your sources are MUCH better. Now you’ll have to excuse me for the evening, I’ve got a low stupidity threshold and you’re waaay over it.