For all the media brouhaha about the supposed strength of the Biden-Harris administration’s jobs market, NBC’s flagship evening news show didn’t even bother to report on the "worst" jobs report in years released just before Election Day.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Nov. 1 that the U.S. economy embarrassingly added only 12,000 jobs in October—well below the 113,000 jobs prediction by economists. As reported by Fox Business, this figure is “the lowest tally since December 2020.” In addition, private sector payrolls declined 28,000 against a prediction of a 90,000 gain by LSEG economists. If that wasn’t bad enough, the BLS conceded that it overestimated total job growth in the previous two months by a combined total of 112,000. As Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni pointed out when the jobs report was released, “[T]his is bad.” Job Creators Network President Alfredo Ortiz called the chilling numbers the “worst jobs report” since the COVID-19 pandemic.
But NBC Nightly News couldn’t let Vice President Kamala Harris be saddled with a bad job numbers report just as voters head to the polls. So the outlet just ignored the story entirely. ABC World News Tonight and CBS Evening News, however, did report on the damning story, even though they did their utmost to downplay it. NBC also happened to find itself in hot water over a Saturday Night Live! appearance by Harris on Nov. 2. NBC’s potential violations of Federal Communications Commission rules raised serious concerns. Go figure.
NBC Nightly News, captained by insufferable anchor Lester Holt, didn’t even attempt to do the pathetic spinning that other liberal outlets like ABC and CBS did in blaming hurricanes and the recent strike at Boeing for supposedly being single-handedly responsible for grinding the U.S. jobs market to a screeching halt.
As Fox Business host Charles Payne retorted on X, “Jobs Report is a disaster and its disingenuous to assume ‘experts’ that contributed to consensus didn't factor into their estimates hurricanes and strikes.” Payne continued: “Moreover, huge negative revisions continue to reveal a much weaker labor market than the media and economists portray.”
Jobs Report is a disaster and its disingenuous to assume "experts" that contributed to consensus didn't factor into their estimates hurricanes and strikes.
— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) November 1, 2024
Moreover, huge negative revisions continue to reveal a much weaker labor market than the media and economists portray. pic.twitter.com/bf8RKJ6gMa
Instead of covering the story, NBC drummed up fake outrage on the pseudo-scandal involving former President Donald Trump’s so-called “violent rhetoric” against and NeverTrump former Rep. Liz Cheney. Trump jabbed at “war hawk,” Cheney, asking how she might feel if the guns were pointed toward her in a war? How would she deal with the consequences of wars that her and her father — former Vice President Dick Cheney — have pushed for? Rather, NBC, along with ABC and CBS for that matter, pushed disinformation suggesting Trump was threatening political violence.
Conservatives are under attack. Contact NBC News at 212-664-6192 and hold it to account for ignoring the news about the worst jobs report in nearly four years.
