"Unbelievable"

President Obama was, as you know, given some much-needed assistance, thanks to an encouraging jobs report showing that 114,000 jobs were created by American employers in September. The headline number: 7.8 percent unemployment. The numbers clearly support the positive recovery narrative the Obama campaign is presenting, and helps reassure Americans that, indeed, the Obama-led economy is heading in the right direction. But since this doesn't conform with the Republican narrative, the new number represents something of an inconvenient truth. And nowhere was conservative incredulity more evident than in the newborn "Unemployment-Rate Truther" movement, spearheaded by former GE CEO Jack Welch, who tweeted, "Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers."

Others joined in, too — even Allen West (not that anyone's particularly surprised about that). Joe Scarborough was a little bit confused on Morning Joe, but Ed Morrissey says he was merely 'expressing scepticism'. Eliot Spitzer says people like Welch are just in the first stage of grief: denial. Ezra Klein tries to knock some sense into the truthers.