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<\/p>\nAnother day, another humiliating smackdown for Fox News White House cor-despondent, Peter Doocy. If one didn’t know better, it would almost seem like Doocy was a plant in the White House briefing room, providing slow pitches for press secretary Jen Psaki to hit out of the park. Which she does with grace and saintly patience.<\/p>\n
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During Friday’s daily press briefing the lead topic was the outstanding jobs report<\/a><\/strong> released early that morning. The U.S. economy added a higher than expect 943,000 jobs in July, while the unemployment rate dipped to 5.4% \u2014 the lowest since the pandemic hit more than a year ago.<\/p>\n So naturally, Doocy had to figure out a way to frame his question in the negative. He didn’t do very well. For one thing, his Fox News handlers will not be pleased that he acknowledged that the economy under President Biden is “so great.”<\/em> According to Donald Trump we should be in a depression<\/a><\/strong> by now. But Doocy did manage to spin this good news as something to complain about:<\/p>\n Doocy:<\/strong> If the economy is so great, you guys are celebrating jobs being created at a historic… Today\u2019s Bad-Faith Question from Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy is \u201cif the economy is so great,\u201d why does the White House want to prevent people from being evicted? pic.twitter.com\/BULNl7dS2B<\/a><\/p>\n — The Recount (@therecount) August 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nPsaki:<\/strong> Wouldn\u2019t you say over 900,000 jobs created is pretty good?
\nDoocy:<\/strong> So this is my question. Why then is the President still pushing for big relief packages, pandemic-era relief packages like the eviction moratorium?
\nPsaki:<\/strong> Well, first I would say, one of the biggest pieces of the legislation he\u2019s pushing for as we know is the infrastructure package, and also the Build Back Better agenda. Most of the components in those packages are long-term investments. They\u2019re overdue. They\u2019re meant to modernize our infrastructure, put people back to work over the long-term, and make us competitive over the long-term. It is still a reality, even with a good jobs number this month, and even with four million jobs created over six months, that there are still people out of work. There are still people who don\u2019t have enough money to make ends meet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n