Liberal media shields Harris from disastrous jobs report



The Democratic Party's liberal media allies seem intent on shielding Vice President Kamala Harris from criticism regarding the administration's latest disastrous jobs report.

On Friday, the October report revealed that the Biden-Harris administration added only 12,000 more jobs to the economy — the lowest increase since December 2020. According to Fox Business, LSEG economists previously predicted a 113,000 job gain.

Trump 'acts like the economy is in the toilet, but that's just not true.'

While the private sector lost 28,000 jobs, the government "continued its upward trend in October," adding another 40,000 jobs, the report stated.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the "unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent in October."

These alarmingly low job-growth numbers come after the Department of Labor's preliminary annual benchmark report in August, which revealed job gains were overstated by more than 800,000 from April 2023 to March 2024, Blaze News previously reported.

The administration has repeatedly overestimated its projected job growth. The DOL's numbers were revised downward by 81,000 in August and by 31,000 in September.

The corporate media machine quickly came up with excuses for the Biden-Harris administration's weak job gains, blaming them on Hurricanes Helene and Milton, as well as the Boeing labor strike.

Those news outlets did not previously extend the same understanding to former President Donald Trump, who faced unprecedented economic challenges as a result of COVID-19. An NBC News article from 2020 torched then-President Trump for gaining "just 661,000 jobs for September."

On Friday, former New York state Sen. David Carlucci (D) told Fox News' Harris Faulkner that the economy is "a winning issue" for Harris.

Carlucci stated that Trump "acts like the economy is in the toilet, but that's just not true."

"Yes, people are struggling, and Kamala Harris knows that and says that, but you've got to take it in its entirety," he continued. "If we look at where we were four years ago, economists were saying we were headed towards a recession, possibly a depression."

Faulkner responded, "So exactly four years ago, around the time of the election, what was being handed was 1.4% [inflation rate]. So I'm confused. I don't think you want to go back four years because that's an easy conversation to have," she added.

Carlucci remarked, "He [Trump] was the second president after Herbert Hoover to leave with less jobs when he left office than when started office."

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Brian Stelter tries to attack Marco Rubio with false equivalence — but the tables quickly turn: 'See the problem?'



CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter made himself the target of mockery on Monday for constructing a false equivalence to attack Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).

While discussing the erosion of "trust in institutions" and "decades of lying about government" with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, Stelter suddenly attacked Rubio — despite the lawmaker not being a topic of discussion — for what Stelter suggested was hypocrisy.

'The jobs numbers were consistently revised downward over the past few years. The chances of the hurricane missing his state is basically zero. Do you see the problem?'

"Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida, who, on Friday, was tweeting about the 'fake' jobs report, sowing doubt about the government statistics," Stelter said. "Today, he is imploring his constituents to believe the government forecast, to take the government information seriously, to believe the government data.

"What a difference three days makes for Marco Rubio — and he's supposed to be one of the more responsible ones," he sneered.

Stelter, drawing attention to his false equivalence, added on X, "See the problem?"

— (@)

The problem with Stelter's juxtaposition is threefold.

First, Stelter appeared to be suggesting that if someone believes one government agency about one thing, he must believe every government agency about everything.

Second, meteorological forecasts from government agencies are perhaps one of the last areas of government not to be infected by hyper-politicization. Meteorologists aren't concerned how their forecasts impact politics; they're trying to save lives and keep people informed to the best of their abilities. On the other hand, the monthly jobs report is one of the most politicized government reports.

Third, Rubio called last week's job report "fake" because he recognizes the pattern of jobs reports under the Biden administration: The preliminary report shows positive numbers, only for those figures to be revised later, showing that job growth wasn't actually as good as first claimed.

Stelter was quickly called out on social media, and his question — "see the problem?" — was turned around on him:

  • "Yes Brian, but you don’t. The NOAA hurricane alerts have been accurate, they have not yet been politicized, so they can be trusted. The jobs reports have been revised down for at least 8 months, don’t accurately represent the real state of jobs in the US. They cannot be trusted," one person pointed out.
  • "You can’t possibly be serious…There is no history of every weather forecaster faking hurricane predictions for some sort of mysterious political gain.There is with the jobs numbers, and the political motivation is obvious. Also, no lives are at stake with the jobs numbers!" another person replied.
  • "So the rule is that if you ever believe any government agency on anything you must believe all government agencies on everything," one person responded.
  • "Holy hell Brian this is dumb even by your nonexistent standards," another person noticed.
  • "No. The jobs numbers were consistently revised downward over the past few years. The chances of the hurricane missing his state is basically zero. Do you see the problem?" one person responded.

Stelter rejoined CNN last month, two years after he was fired from the network.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Stock market CRASH: What does Warren Buffett know that we don't??



Americans woke up on Monday morning to a stock market plunge after a bad day on Friday. The Dow plummeted hundreds of points, Warren Buffett is selling stocks like crazy, and to top it all off, Japan’s stock market had its worst day since 1987’s Black Monday.

Glenn Beck is understandably worried.

“Friday, we had a bad jobs report. We’re still not in a recession; indicators are showing that we’re headed towards one, but the indicators have been wrong before. We are headed towards one; we’re headed for a depression at some point,” Glenn Beck warns.

Glenn is concerned about what this might mean for ordinary Americans and the United States economy and consults financial expert Carol Roth for some advice.

Roth explains that while the Fed did not lower rates, it might be on the table in September.

“Normally, you would say, ‘Okay, the market wants the Fed to cut rates,’ but what happened is then we got a weak job report on Friday, and while sometimes the bad news can be good news for the market, in this case, they took it as bad news,” Roth tells Glenn.

“The Fed was behind the curve in terms of lowering rates,” Roth continues. “They felt like maybe this whole idea of a quote ‘soft landing,’ the idea that you can get the inflation down without wrecking the economy, is off the table.”

However, while it doesn’t look good, Roth says that “if there is any silver lining here,” it’s that the market did not open back up and continue to fall.

But there are still major indicators that something strange is going on, and one of them is Warren Buffett’s recent behavior.

“Another catalyst that we’ve seen is Warren Buffett,” Roth says. “He had lessened his position in Apple by about 49%.”

“That’s not lessening. That’s cutting it in half,” Glenn says. “He’s making some of the biggest sales he’s ever made. It’s almost as if he’s becoming bullish on America. What does he know that we don’t know?”

“Starting in 2019, he doubled down on Japan. So he has five really big companies and really big positions in Japan. So the day that we’re talking about Japan going down and at the same time the U.S. is going down,” Roth says. “It is interesting.”


Want more from Glenn Beck?

To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Chatter about possible recession in US grows as global markets tank, 'Bidenomics' apparently fails to deliver



Markets around the world, including in the U.S., tanked on Monday as investors began openly expressing concerns about a possible U.S. economic recession.

As they had on Friday, global markets were severely in the red on Monday. The Dow opened down more than 1,000 points and as of mid-morning hovers about -2.6% overall. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is down over 560 points or 3.36%.

'Four years ago today, Trump claimed the stock market would 'crash' if Joe Biden was elected.'

The Asian markets, many of which are about 12 hours ahead of the American markets, suffered even worse losses on Monday. The Nikkei 225 in Japan tumbled 12.4% — more than 4,450 points — its largest single-day loss in history. The second largest was "Black Monday" in 1987.

"That was a crash. It smelled like 1987," said Neil Newman, head of strategy at Astris Advisory in Tokyo, according to CNN.

On Monday, Taiwan's Taiex likewise fell 8.4% and South Korea’s Kospi 8.8%.

These catastrophic numbers have intensified talks about a looming recession in the U.S. Even leftwing outlets like the Daily Beast have acknowledged the possibility.

"To put it mildly, the spike in volatility-of-volatility is a spectacle that underlines just how jittery markets have become," said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management, according to ABC News. "The real question now looms: Can the typical market reflex to sell volatility or buy the market dip prevail over the deep-seated anxiety brought on by this sudden and sharp recession scare?"

The Federal Reserve will now almost assuredly cut interest rates next month to stabilize the volatile markets.

For now, economists are blaming the global market turmoil on the dismal jobs report the U.S. Department of Labor released on Friday. So-called experts had anticipated a report showing that the policies that Biden and Harris have affectionally called "Bidenomics" had created 175,000 jobs last month, but the real number was much lower, just 114,000, causing the unemployment rate to jump to 4.3%, the highest rate since October 2021 and nearly a full point higher than it was at the beginning of the year.

As recently as May, an account touting the supposed accomplishments of Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the soaring stock market and took aim at former President Donald Trump's skepticism about a Biden-Harris administration's ability to address economic issues.

"Four years ago today, Trump claimed the stock market would 'crash' if Joe Biden was elected (The stock market has reached the highest levels ever recorded in history under President Biden)," Kamala HQ tweeted on May 24.

Trump certainly has his doubts that Biden and Harris are up to the task, dubbing the market tumble on Monday the "KAMALA CRASH."

"Of course there is a massive market downturn. Kamala is even worse than Crooked Joe. Markets will NEVER accept the Radical Left Lunatic that DESTROYED San Francisco and California, as a whole. Next move, THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024! You can’t play games with MARKETS. KAMALA CRASH!!!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Harris for President spokesperson James Singer, in turn, pointed the finger at Trump for the abysmal jobs report. "Donald Trump failed Americans as president, costing our economy millions of jobs, and bringing us to the brink of recession," Singer said.

"We’ve made significant progress, but Vice President Harris knows there’s more work to do to lower costs for families."

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Since Biden Inherited The Trump Boom, The Whole Economy’s Gone Bust

Now that the easy-growth environment of the post-Covid era is well behind us, Biden — and the country — face a terrible economic reckoning.

Biden Is Only ‘Adding’ Jobs Because Americans Need Extra Side Hustles To Make Ends Meet

Government data shows fewer Americans have full-time jobs, and more of those with full-time jobs are also working part-time jobs.

The disturbing truth about Biden’s 'job growth' lie



Joe Biden claims he has created 15 million jobs for Americans while he’s been in office, but Glenn Beck knows that this claim is a complete fabrication.

“He always has this talking point where he says, ‘Oh, I created 15 million jobs,’” Glenn Beck says, noting that the proof he’s lying is laid out perfectly in a Blaze Media article written by Daniel Horowitz.

“His talking point about job creation is the ultimate self indictment,” Horowitz writes. “The Establishment Survey shows 3 million additional people employed since January 2021. This may be due in part because the employer-based survey picks up more illegal aliens than the survey of households.”

“In any event, the reality is Biden has a much worse record on job creation than Donald Trump, and that’s before we delve into the nature of these jobs,” Horowitz continues.

When COVID-19 shut down the world in March 2020, employment cratered. By the time Biden was in office, people were just getting back to work.

“The only fair comparison for Biden to make is to measure the number of employed individuals today compared to February 2020,” Horowitz writes. When the numbers are viewed through this lens, there are 5.5 million new jobs instead of the 15 million Biden touts between January 2021 and February 2024.

That figure of 5.5 million is according to the Establishment survey, which is favored by the Biden administration. The other survey, the Household survey, puts Biden’s job creation at just 2.3 million.

“He didn’t create 15 million new jobs. Nowhere near. Those jobs came back after the COVID situation was over and people went back to work,” Pat Gray says.

To hear more, watch the clip below.


Want more from Glenn Beck?

To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Not A Single Manufacturing Job Was Created In March Despite Biden Admin Spending Billions To Do So

Machinery manufacturing lost 2,500 jobs and primary metal manufacturing lost 1,000 jobs

Bonkers Labor Stat Shows The Future Liberals Want

Immigration is at the top of everyone's minds

What the White House is hiding in the latest jobs report



While the media is relaying that the economy is bustling, average Americans are well aware of the truth: the economy is struggling.

“All the way up to the election, they’ve got to convince Americans that it’s just them,” Glenn Beck says.

In the recently released January 2024 jobs report, it’s claimed that unexpectedly, 353,000 jobs have been added.

The average hourly earnings spiked from 4.1 to 4.5, which they claim is the highest since last September.

“Did people get a raise? Did the hourly earnings actually go up because of actual wages?” Glenn asks. “No, it’s a trick. It’s a trap.”

“They actually rose because the Bureau of Labor Statistics decided to slash the number of estimated hours that everybody was working,” Glenn explains. “They said the hours went from 34.4 to 34.1, which may not sound like a lot, but that’s why your hourly looks like it’s going up, because they changed that one metric.”

“If that metric is true, the last time the work week was this low was when the economy was shut down because of COVID,” he continues.

As for the number of jobs added, Glenn is also quite skeptical.

“Long story short here, what was until December a decline in jobs has now been miraculously transformed into gains,” he says, noting that the average monthly increase in 2023 has been revised from 224,000 to 255,000.

The BLS employment survey claims that 353,000 jobs were added, but the household survey that counts the number of employed workers dropped by 31,000.

“If the numbers are true the way they’ve adjusted everything, the number of employed workers would need to soar by 9 million to catch up to what the payroll claims is the actual employment situation,” Glenn explains.

“So, tell me we’re getting healthier. I don’t think we are,” he adds.


Want more from Glenn Beck?

To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.