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

In the liberal media, however, this jobs report was hardly a blip on the radar. There were no complaints about Biden’s weak economy. In fact, reporters and pundits have been quick to dismiss the economic concerns that have rightfully persisted throughout Biden’s presidency, telling voters that all is well. Inflation wasn’t that bad and wages were up, the news media said, whether or not it was true.

More voters in 2024 said their personal finances were worse than four years earlier than he had said the same in 2008 during the Great Recession. But this did not register with political reporters. Nor did it matter to them that, for the past five years, immigrant workers invented 88% of labor force growth, 3.6 million joined the workforce, compared to only 479,000 American-born workers. Electricity didn’t matter either prices have increased by 29% and meat, poultry, fish and eggs by 21% since Biden took office.

The liberal left media has been ignored by all of this. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough dismissed the opinion of someone who said then-candidate Donald Trump would win because the price of butter was above $3. Mika Brzezinski, the co-host and his wife, said the butter was actually $7, which Scarborough was shocked to learn. It is at least clear who buys groceries in that relationship.

After November 5, Scarborough and Brzezinski went to talk to Trump, who had once been their friend, in an apparent attempt to shore up his crumbling credibility, showing some degree of remorse for neglecting reality and ignoring public concerns. . Others were not so introspective. On Stephanie Ruhle’s MSNBC show, Eddie Glaude blamed racism for Trump’s victory, or rather Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat, saying that voters are primarily concerned about “all these racially ambiguous kids in the ads Cheerios”. When Ruhle claimed that people voted for Trump because their lives were too expensive, her guest said he “doesn’t believe that.”

Why would they? Glaude, an MSNBC contributor, stay on the board of trustees of Morehouse College and is a “distinguished professor” at Princeton University. He almost certainly didn’t have to worry about the price of butter or other food for most of his adult life. He doesn’t just live in an ideological bubble where he and like-minded colleagues celebrate race-obsessed writings and opinions. He also lives in a financial bubble, with no apparent clue what ordinary people, lacking Ivy Leagues and media jobs, need to do to get by in a tough economy.

CNN is re-examining its programming as its ratings have slumped, bringing interesting details about what life is like for a CNN anchor. Jake Tapper is under contract for an annual salary of $7 million and Wolf Blitzer for $3 million. (Well-connected liberal media Puck News say the two actually “make millions more” than those numbers). Other reported CNN’s salaries include $3 million for Kaitlan Collins, $6 million for Erin Burnett, $8.5 million for Chris Wallace, who will be leaving the network, and $20 million for Anderson Cooper.

Cooper thus makes more money each year than NFL stars Christian McCaffrey and Travis Kelce. Cooper was born into the Vanderbilt family to millionaire parents 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 the quality of the teleprompter reading. Is it any wonder that no one at the network understood that the economy was not working for voters?

The same could be said of liberal newsrooms across the country. That’s how you get there politics stable drum beat on Biden’s “good economy” with “robust growth” as being economy it was “power forward”. Biden’s economy HAD “good values” but “bad vibes”. Writing for New York Times a month before the election, Paul Krugman declared“All Good Economic News Confirms Bidenomics”. This is the same Paul Krugman who started in academia at Yale nearly 50 years ago and signed a deal with the City University of New York in 2014 that would see him earn $225,000 for nine months’ salary without having to teach a single class.

In short, Democratic media personalities took to the economy by praising Biden and the numbers while dismissing voters’ concerns about inflation as “bad vibes.” So the economy took a back seat in the new coverage while the focus turned to abortion, aka “women’s health care,” or any Trump “controversy” of the day that could be described as wildfire. five alarms.

Stories at the end of the campaign focused on a comedian calling Puerto Rico an island of garbage and a comment by Trump twisted beyond acknowledging his critics to suggest former Republican congresswoman-turned-Democratic campaign surrogate Liz Cheney be shot by a firing squad. The liberal media decided these were the stories the people needed to hear as the country elected its next president.

Trump did GAINS among Puerto Rican voters and won a record number of Hispanics. Cheney said women to vote their “conscience” in a “secret ballot,” playing into the Democrats’ bizarre narrative that wives only vote Republican because they’re afraid of their husbands. Trump did GAINS and among women voters. Because, as they often say, “it’s the economy, stupid.”

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This thought did not prevail – perhaps it could not – in the circles in which democratic journalists and experts move. It sounded great in those circles to make Harris the “change” candidate when he was to the right of Biden for four years and was the tie-breaking vote on the climate spending bill that sparked record inflation. For voters, it was as offensive as the repeated lectures they received about how they should appreciate Biden’s wonderful economy.

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