 Jack Welch defends his tweet, says he should have added a question mark 
 
 After his controversial tweet questioning the drop in unemployment numbers, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, told Anderson Cooper that the numbers presented today are “implausible” and that while he is not backing away from his tweet, he wishes he “ added a question mark” to his tweet. Text Size - 
 
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 Welch, a frequent critic of President Barack Obama, implied that the jobs numbers released Friday — notably the 7.8 percent unemployment rate — were tweaked to help the president’s reelection campaign (a sentiment many conservatives have echoed). The Tweet from former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is gaining the most attention: “Unbelievable jobs numbers...these Chicago guys will do anything...can’t debate so change numbers.” The refrain has been picked up by conservative Republicans in Congress and CNBC contributors. This is really out there stuff, and hopefully the networks will say so outright.
– Former GE chief Jack Welch became the face of the latest trutherism movement yesterday when he tweeted that the new jobs numbers were too good to be true—"these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers," it read. He said on CNN last night that he "should have put a question mark" on the tweet but stood by his assertion that he thinks the figures defy logic, reports Politico. His go-round with Anderson Cooper left Cooper sounding a little exasperated at times. "I'm not accusing anybody of anything," Welch says at one point, before again standing by the tweet in which he seems to do just that. "I'm not backing away." Welch made the rounds of media outlets earlier in the day standing by the comments. “I am doing nothing more than raising the question,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s fact-based.” At the Washington Post, Greg Sargent thinks this "unemployment trutherism" is doing Mitt Romney no favors. "This is really out there stuff," he writes, and it's just drawing more attention to the falling unemployment rate.