YIKES: October Jobs Report Is ABYSMALLY BAD, But The Media Dutifully Carry Water For Harris

Posted • November 1, 2024: Here we told you about the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad jobs report. Only 12,000 jobs were added in October. 🚨 Just 12,000 new jobs were added this month. Economists expected 112,000 new jobs. Only 12,000. And given how that number is always revised down a month or two later, this writer wouldn't be surprised if it was negative, frankly. That won't stop the media from trying to spin, spin, spin this for Kamala Harris, though. In fact, there's no way the media weren't alerted to this report, and the narrative, prior to the news dropping because they all have the exact same talking points. CNN has already settled on spin for the disaster jobs report: The picture is “muddied” due to stuff: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbTL2CNXAAATxSV?format=jpg&name=medium -- 'Muddied.' Take a guess at what that 'stuff' is, while you're at it.

The entirety of the media settled immediately and at the same time on the talking point that the huge jobs miss and downward revisions are resulting from a muddied picture created by hurricanes and strikes. You're to ask no follow-up questions. (…)

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