Cooling the outrage

Many pundits are making a big deal that the job loss for April were only 530K and not over 600K. After all, we could lose another 1-4 million jobs. Which leads to a question: Why do they want to be so upbeat? Why do they accuse the naysayers of fear mongering? Some reasons I can think of:

* They want to demonstrate that Obama's policies are effective.
* They want to boost consumer confidence to get people spending again.

But one pundit has another explanation:

* The other pundits want to cool the citizen outrage so that reform bills can be watered down or dropped without incurring voter wrath -- meaning we'll gain nothing from this "greatest heist in monetary history."

I've heard enough of this kind of idea manipulation from pundits for so long that this last one is believable.