Chicago Thugs in Labor Department Already Making Excuses to Delay Jobs Report That Would Sink Obama

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The most important jobs report in the history of the nation (really!) might turn out to be a fizzle:

The U.S. Labor Department on Monday said it hasn’t made a decision yet on whether to delay Friday’s October jobs report, the final reading on the labor market before next week’s federal elections. A Labor official said the agency will assess the schedule for all its data releases this week when the “weather emergency” is over.

I’m willing to bet that the report will be released on time. But if it’s not, can you just imagine the level of crackpot conspiracy theories we’re going to have to endure about it? And that’s without even knowing which candidate it putatively helps.

Personally, I’m all for delaying it. In fact, at this point I think I’m all in favor of modifying the First Amendment to ban all news coverage of any kind for the week before Election Day. Who’s with me?

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