FOX FAIL
‘Rooting Against America’: Fox News Blasted for Being ‘Giddy’ Over Anticipated Bad Jobs Report – Until It Was Good

Experts predicted a bad jobs report but Americans were very pleasantly surprised when the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday reported 467,000 jobs were created in January – tripling estimates – and increased the two previous months’ jobs numbers as well.
HOLY COW
Revisions added 700,000 jobs to the last two months
YUGE— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) February 4, 2022
Most Americans, that is.
Take a look at how Fox News was “giddy with anticipation of massive job loss,” as Media Matters’ Senior Research Fellow Craig Harrington noted, posting this video compilation:
Up until just *seconds* before the release of the January jobs report, Fox News was giddy with anticipation of massive job loss… pic.twitter.com/kH5dZOQYF4
— Craig Harrington (@Craigipedia) February 4, 2022
“Fox News, rooting against America,” decried Never-Trumper Bill Kristol.
“Real patriots don’t root for failure. But that’s exactly what Fox News does,” wrote veteran journalist Jim Roberts in response to the video.
CNN Contributor, World affairs columnist Frida Ghitis: “How embarrassing, Fox rooting for bad news for the country.”
John Haltiwanger, a Senior Politics Reporter at BusinessInsider said Fox News was “Rooting for America to fail to own the libs.”
And Lincoln Project member and veteran GOP campaign strategist Stuart Stevens wrote this response to the video:
“Most appealing aspect of Reagan era was optimism. To be born an American was to win life’s lottery. Now Rs are all fear & pessimism. Grievance. Books are terrifying, America’s great cities are terrifying. Immigrants are terrifying. The future is terrifying. A party of the fearful”
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