Why is the press rooting against Biden?
At Pressrun.media, Eric Boehlert asks and answers the question:
Like clockwork, the first Friday of the month brought another blockbuster jobs report. The U.S. economy under President Joe Biden added another 400,000-plus new jobs in March, it was announced last week.
Biden is currently on pace, during his first two full years in office, to oversee the creation of 10 million new jobs and an unemployment rate tumbling all the way down to 3 percent. That would be an unprecedented accomplishment in U.S. history. Context: In four years in office, Trump lost three million jobs, the worst record since Herbert Hoover.
Yet the press shrugs off the good news, determined to keep Biden pinned down. “The reality is that one strong jobs report does not snap the administration out of its current circumstances,” Politico stressed Friday afternoon. How about 11 straight strong job reports, would that do the trick? Because the U.S. economy under Biden has been adding more than 400,000 jobs per month for 11 straight months.
The glaring disconnect between reality and how the press depicts White House accomplishments means a key question lingers: Why is the press rooting against Biden?
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This WWB is a related cousin to the question:
History As Reminder: GOP and Jobs Edition
Republicans and their media hacks – dredging out the tired, old meme – are calling the President’s populist deficit reduction plan ‘class warfare’. Closing loopholes for the largest corporations registering record profits and who pay no taxes and get tax rebates, according to Republicans is class warfare. But no tax breaks for workers, middle-class families and the poor is not class warfare. It is, according to Republicans, that “we don’t have enough people paying taxes in this country” .
