The clowns don't even understand they are clowns. Firing the chief of BLS for weak employment numbers ... it is like beating thermometer for showing unpleasant temperature and going out and finding a different thermometer which would show more pleasant numbers.

I've always said that you can prove anything if you ignore enough data or facts. It's the foundation for all propaganda campaigns - cherry-pick the things that fit the message you want to convey and act like the overwhelming evidence against it doesn't exist. If you can't find anything to serve as a factual basis just invent something and repeat it to your audience, loudly if necessary, until that is the only thing they remember about their interaction with you.

NOAA has repeatedly published data from weather stations located next to heat sources, despite claiming to account for it. They also still collect readings using pencil and snail mail in some cases.

Additionally, the community of climate researchers routinely ignore data that goes against the grain, either by smoothing using opaque algorithms or by ignoring it altogether (like hot weather reports from the 18/1900s published in newspapers, some of which exceeded 'maximum recorded temperatures' in the last 20 years).