On the Friday before the election, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its October employment report. An increase of 108,000 jobs was expected, but the actual number was only 12,000. It was the worst jobs report since the pandemic. While the private sector lost 28,000 jobs, government growth added 40,000 public sector workers. So while the productive sector of the economy was a shrinking employer, the non-productive sector was expanding. The economy under President Joe Biden was the rotten cherry on top of spoiled ice cream.

But it was unlikely that this jobs report would go unnoticed in the liberal media. There were no complaints about Biden’s weak economy. In fact, reporters and pundits were quick to dismiss the economic concerns that have rightfully persisted throughout Biden’s presidency, telling voters that everything is fine. The news media said inflation wasn’t that bad and wages were rising. TRUE.

More voters in 2024 in question Their personal finances were worse than those who said the same four years earlier during the Great Recession of 2008. However, this did not attract the attention of political reporters. In the last five years, migrant workers made Labor force growth was 88%, with 3.6 million people joining the workforce compared to just 479,000 American-born workers. Electricity didn’t matter either. prices Meat, poultry, fish and eggs are up 29% since Biden took office, and meat, poultry, fish and eggs are up 21%.

The left-liberal media was unaware of all this. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough dismissed the idea of ​​someone who said then-candidate Donald Trump would win because the price of butter was more than $3. Co-host and wife Mika Brzezinski said the butter was actually $7, and Scarborough was shocked to learn. At least in this relationship it’s clear who gets the food.

After November 5, Scarborough and Brzezinski went to talk to their onetime friend, Trump. This was a clear attempt to shore up their crumbling credibility by showing a degree of regret for their disregard for the truth and disregard for public concerns. . Others were not so introverted. On Stephanie Ruhle’s MSNBC show, Eddie Glaude blamed racism for Trump’s victory, or rather the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris, and said voters were primarily interested in “racially ambiguous kids in Cheerios commercials.” When Ruhle claimed that people voted for Trump because their lives were too expensive, his guest said he “didn’t believe it.”

Why would he? MSNBC contributor Glaude said sits He is on the board of trustees of Morehouse College and is a “distinguished professor” at Princeton University. For most of his adult life, he almost never had to worry about the price of butter or other foods. He doesn’t just live in an ideological bubble where he and his like-minded colleagues celebrate his race-obsessed writings and ideas. He also lives in a financial bubble, and ordinary people without Ivy Leagues and media positions have no idea what they need to do to cope with a struggling economy.

CNN is re-examining its programming as its ratings decline, revealing interesting details about what life is like for a CNN anchor. Jake Tapper is reportedly under contract for $7 million annually, while Wolf Blitzer is under contract for $3 million. (Well-connected liberal media outlet Disc News two say Actually “make millions more” than these figures). Other reported CNN salaries include $3 million for Kaitlan Collins, $6 million for Erin Burnett, $8.5 million for Chris Wallace, who will leave the network, and $20 million for Anderson Cooper.

Cooper reportedly makes more money each year than NFL stars Christian McCaffrey and Travis Kelce. Cooper was born into a millionaire Vanderbilt family and makes more money than most families dream of. CNN could replace all these hugely expensive stars with local news anchors and see no real decline in teleprompter reading quality. Is it any wonder that no one on the network seems to understand that economics isn’t working for voters?

The same can be said for liberal newsrooms across the country. This is how you end up Politico stand still drum sound Biden’s “good economy” and “strong growth” economy He was “moving forward”. Biden’s economy there was “good metrics” but “bad vibes”. writing for New York Times Paul Krugman one month before the election declared“All Good Economic News Confirms Bidenomics.” This is the same Paul Krugman who began academic life at Yale nearly 50 years ago. signed A deal with the City University of New York in 2014 that would allow him to earn $225,000 for nine months’ salary without having to teach a single course.

In short, Democratic media personalities took care of the economy by praising Biden and the numbers, while dismissing voters’ concerns about inflation as “bad vibes.” So while the economy took a backseat in the new coverage, the focus turned to abortion, which was dubbed “women’s health,” or Trump’s “controversies” of the day, which could be portrayed as a five-alarm fire.

The closing stories of the campaign focused on a comedian who called Puerto Rico a garbage island and Trump’s comments, which he twisted beyond recognition by his critics, suggesting that the former Republican congressman-turned-Democratic campaign surrogate Liz Cheney should be shot by firing squad. The liberal media decided that these were the stories people needed to hear as the country elected its next president.

Trump did it earnings He won a record number of Hispanic voters among Puerto Rican voters. Cheney said women voting their “conscience” in a “secret ballot” and playing into the weird Democratic narrative that wives only vote Republican because they are afraid of their husbands. Trump did it earnings also among female voters. Because, as is often said, “it’s economics, stupid.”

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This idea did not take hold in the circles of Democratic journalists and experts, and perhaps could not take hold. Making Harris, Biden’s right-hand woman for four years and the tie-breaking vote on the climate spending bill that caused record inflation, the “change” candidate seemed great in these circles. For voters, this was as humiliating as the lessons they received over and over about how to appreciate Biden’s great economy.

Despite some signs of a reset from Scarborough at MSNBC and CNN brass, it remains to be seen whether the liberal media will learn its lesson. They didn’t do so after 2016, when building the “resistance” seemed more important than understanding the voters who turned to Trump. The media’s self-importance as “verifiers” and “defenders of democracy” has blinded them to what life was like for 95% of Americans before, and that’s almost certainly the case for the next four years.