Dear Fox News: The numbers on a graph are supposed to have a relationship to the left axis.

Not if you are FAUX News. A relationship may give their dumbed-down audience the impression the unemployment rate has dropped. That doesn't fit the corporate message.

Fox must be really trying to look bad!

No. They are not trying to look bad. They only look bad to discriminating audiences. My dear mother thinks FAUX News is close to gospel. Facts don't matter. The only thing that matters is what Bill the serial harrasser O'Reilly says.

Roger Ailes knows his base won't check and they won't believe the "no-good, lefty, lying-scum, Media Matters", et. al.

I wonder is fox is still using the charts?

I sure hope the other guys never do anything like this!

I have no doubt "the other guys" have made mistakes. It would even surprise me if "the other guys" deliberately inserted some mischeivious items a time or two. But, FAUX News does it all the time. If a Republican is caught in a scandal, they invariably "make the mistake" of putting a "D" after their name. My mother and her friends would never check and it would only reinforce the problems with Democrats.

Maybe you should tell her how bad Fox News is!

In any relationship, terms must be developed. There are subjects not discussed in order to avoid unnecessary discomfort.

Really bad. And so are MSNBC and CNN.

The real unemployment rate is not 8.4%. It's closer to 11%. More than 300k dropped out of the "workforce", discouraged, and no longer looking for a job, at least temporarily. They are not counted as "unemployed" even though they clearly are unemployed. So even at 9%, FOX is falling woefully short of the true unemployment rate.