Ahh, nothing like the sheer audacity of lying straight through one’s pearly whites, eh? Oh, I’m well aware that they’ve got lots of nifty charts and graphs and numbers on the Porkulus propaganda website which purport to show proof of this job extravaganza, but last night CBS News urged a healthy bit of skepticism, and with good reason:

That, from a “real” news network. A couple hundred thousand to study the sex lives of female college freshman? To whom would that information be useful, outside the male college population? And, er, Roman Polanski?

Oh well. Do note that never before in mankind’s recorded history has anyone ever used such a ridiculous and highly questionable metric to measure the success of their policies. Jobs created…and saved? Before the Age of Obama, we mainly focused on how many jobs had been lost, or how many gained. That’s it. Why? Because there really is no way of knowing whether a job has been “saved” or not, but magic fantasy land numbers are a great way to hide the real loss of 3.3 million jobs since the Stimulus passed. And the 9.8% unemployment. And the fact this stimulus money didn’t grow on trees and won’t last forever. But shhh. Unicorns and rainbows for everyone!

Oh, and as you watch the Left and the media-but I repeat myself-go ga-ga over the rise in GDP last quarter, be sure to look for any references to a jobless recovery. Why? They sure were interested in that a lot during the Bush years, even when the economy was growing at a comparatively paltry 7.2%.