What Democrats Can’t Say About the Jobs Numbers

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

January’s unemployment report beat all expectations, and December’s upwardly revised employment figures suggest the Omicron variant isn’t the societal disruptor many expected it would be. Democrats could make political hay of that if they wanted. But do they? Also, an update on the CNN scandal.

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.2	Today is Friday, February 4th, 2022.
0:31.0	I am John Bajor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor
0:35.0	A Greenwald Hi-A. Hi John.
0:37.0	See you right at Christine Rosen. Hi Christine.
0:39.6	Hi John.
0:40.8	And associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah.
0:43.2	Hi John.
0:44.4	Quickly I should say we are closing our March issue today and so I guess it will be online
0:50.7	Monday or much of it will be online Monday.
0:53.2	We have a beautiful tribute essay to the late Terry Teachup by Bruce Bauer.
0:59.5	We have a remarkably funny and wise commencement address you will never actually hear delivered
1:09.4	by the wonderful and witty Joseph Epstein.
1:15.2	And a piece called the unbearable bleakness of schooling how educators make a fetish of doom
1:22.8	and gloom by Robert Pondissio among many other things including Christine Rosen's piece
1:29.1	on the anti-wedding wedding section how the New York Times is revising its age old society pages
1:36.0	to reflect current efforts to destroy traditional relationships and and and privilege unconventional
1:46.0	sexual Congress and other forms of other forms of post marital bliss above the simple nuclear
1:57.6	family constitution. A lot of other good stuff that's the March issue of Commentary you will
2:04.1	be able to read it online as I say maybe Monday. As we were preparing to do the show the job
2:12.4	numbers came out boy this is interesting because all week no all week the White House was
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