Conservatives struggle to see the bad in the good jobs report
Friday’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics exceeded expectations, with 254,000 jobs added. This was far better than the Dow Jones-forecasted 150,000 jobs.
So, of course, the right had to frame it as confusing and catastrophic.
After a panel on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria” predicted the worst minutes before the report dropped, participants struggled to find a way to spin it—and the swift stock market surge that followed—into something to fear.