Economy

The 18 Best Battles, Hardballs, Smackdowns From the Biden WH Briefings
With the final White House press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, we’re looking back at the best hardballs, tussles, and moments over the hundreds of Biden administration press briefings, primarily helmed by Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre. The story of the Biden White House press corps is far more complex than Fox News – led by Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich – asking challenging questions…

NYT’s Coy Exclaims Biden’s Handling of Economy ‘Good, If Not Great'
New York Times writer Peter Coy once again kissed the ring of Bidenomics by actually having the gall to bemoan in writing how President Joe Biden wouldn’t be remembered for the marvelous way he handled the economy.

WashPost WH Bureau Chief Worried Biden’s Polices Won’t Get ‘Credit'
Washington Post White House Bureau Chief Toluse Olorunnipa had a bout of the heebie-jeebies over history potentially not giving President Joe Biden the, er, “credit” his economic policies deserve.

What Lockdowns? NBC Spins Biden Is History's Best Jobs President
The anchors of NBC’s Today spun themselves dizzy on Saturday as they tried to give credence to two separate liberal talking points. First, Laura Jarrett memory-holed the COVID lockdowns as she proclaimed President Joe Biden to be the best jobs president “in history” while Peter Alexander tried to tie the current Los Angeles wildfires to climate change.

NUTS: Rubin Claims ‘Media Just Discovered’ Bidenomics’s Alleged Genius
Our readers are well aware that one of MRC Business’s biggest pet peeves has been the extent to which the leftist media went to bat for the insanity of Bidenomics the past four years. But The Washington Post’s pseudo-conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin is arguing like they just discovered its made-up stroke of genius yesterday.

NYT’s Peter Baker Cries Biden Econ Great Whether Voters Know It or Not
Someone needed to fill the delusional, pretentious void left by Paul Krugman at The New York Times to tell Americans they’re too stupid to realize the God-Bless-America awesomeness of the Biden economy. It looks like Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker volunteered.

Bitter-Clinger Joe Scarborough Cries: 'It Was A 1% Election!'
On Morning Joe, Scarborough climbed up on his hobby horse, and for the umpteeth time since November 5th wailed about how it was only a "1% election." Forget that Trump won EVERY swing state. That he won the popular vote. That the overwhelming proportion of districts, red and blue, swung right. Scarborough also tried to make the case that things were better under Biden than he was given credit…

TOP 20 Quotes Showing Lefty Journalists' Contempt for Capitalism
Since the 1980s, the Media Research Center has chronicled lefty journalists’ contempt for capitalism and free markets. Here are the top 20 quotes from our archives demonstrating the radical perspective that’s become all-too-commonplace within the liberal media.

WashPost Editorial Board Member on Bidenomics: ‘Made So Much Sense’
As America heads into the final days of the lame duck administration under President Joe Biden, there are still clueless members of the media trying to sell the clownish concept of Bidenomics to the public as if the 2024 elections were still in full swing.

You’re Going to Miss This: 10 More WH Press Briefing Battles From 2024
As the Trace Adkins song goes, you’re going to miss this, you’re going to want this back. Deep down, that’s surely the way at least some feel about the bizarre, entertaining, meandering, only occasionally informative, and stammering White House press briefings in 2024 under Karine Jean-Pierre. With part one having covered 10 moments from January to May, this blog contains the second 10…

Here Are the Zaniest First Takes in TV News to Jimmy Carter’s Passing
With the networks having had over a decade to prepare their graphics and obituary packages for former President Jimmy Carter, the Georgian’s death Sunday at 100 years old came as no surprise (despite having been under hospice care for years) and thus the broadcast and cable networks merely had to dust off their files and hit play. In the first 45 minutes since the Carter Center announced his…

Make Way for PART ONE of the Top WH Briefing Room Battles of 2024!
There’s no doubt at least some of you out there will miss the antics, hardballs, stumbles, and throwdowns that came to define Karine Jean-Pierre’s 2024 at the White House Briefing Room podium. With over 70 blogs from our press briefing tag to choose from and the topics ranging from the economy to foreign policy to Biden’s mental slippage, Jean-Pierre and the press corps made it difficult for…

As Team Trump Takes Over, MSNBC Leftists Scream ‘Oligarchy!’
Watching MSNBC the past few days, you’d have heard a cacophony of journalists insisting that democracy was already being supplanted by “oligarchy,” suggesting a handful of super-rich villains are on the verge of taking over.

Ten Times WH Reporters Lobbed Softballs or Whacked KJP From the Left
In this final year of the Biden presidency, the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre provided a litany of verbal stumbles and word salads when under tough questioning from Fox’s Peter Doocy, Jacqui Heinrich, Edward Lawrence, and even from liberal legacy outlets. Thankfully for her, there were also times when she had assists from the press corps in peddling the left’s preferred storylines (to hide…