Biden complains of dogs ‘pushed’ into lakes on TV instead of good news | US News
Biden offered up the analogy while delivering remarks on the September jobs report at the White House on Friday afternoon. He opened by sharing ‘good news today’.
‘This morning, we learned the economy created 336,000 jobs in September alone,’ Biden said in the Roosevelt Room. ‘That means, since I’ve taken office, we’ve created 13.9million new jobs.’
A reporter later mentioned Biden’s remark about good news and asked why he thinks most people do not feel positive or good news about the economy.
Biden said, ‘I got to choose my words here’, and then appeared to blame the press.
‘You all are not the happiest people in the world – what you report. And I mean it sincerely,’ he said. ‘It gets a more little – you get more legs when you’re reporting something that’s negative.’
Biden clarified that he did not mean that journalists are ‘picking’ on him but that it is the nature of the media industry.
‘You turn on the television, and there’s not a whole lot about “boy saves dog as he swims in the lake.” You know?’ Biden continued. ‘It’s about, you know, “somebody pushed the dog in a lake.”’
Biden added, ‘I get it’, but that there’s reason for people to be worried about what’s happening in Russia and other parts of the world.
‘I think that the American people are smart as hell in knowing what their interests are. I think they know they’re better off financially than they were before,’ he said, bringing it back to his work around the economy. ‘It’s a fact.’
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