From Special Report with Bret Baier | Friday, May 4, 2012

On Friday’s monthly employment report, which showed that the economy created only 115,000 jobs in April:

If you look at the last six months, Obama got an uptick in his popularity… in part as a result of the perception of a stronger economy and recovery. And that came from the good numbers — employment numbers — of January and February.
But now it looks as if what was happening is those were unusually good-weather months, so they stole jobs from spring. Jobs that emerge in the spring happened earlier, and we see now a lowering of the expectations in the spring.
That [slowing] reflects growth in the economy, a very anemic 1.7 percent last year. Historically, it is the slowest recovery since the Second World War. For Obama, if this persists, if that was a false dawn in the winter, it’s going to hurt him coming up to the election.
It looks like if we’re about to embark on the third straight Summer of Recovery that didn’t recover.

On Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s handling of news last week that she had identified herself as Native American in law-school directories:

I’m told that her tribal name is “Tells Tall Tales.”
Look, nobody will believe that she put this [her alleged minority status] in the directory because she wanted to have lunch with people who are also one-32nd Cherokee — as I understand it, that directory didn’t say which minority you were! That was number one.
Secondly, the directory was used by administrators looking to make minority hires. Everybody understands what this was about, and her protest that this was a way to meet with fellow Cherokees is really hard to believe. If so, when she became extremely well known over the last three or four years, why didn’t she mention her heritage once?… She would have had a dozen lunches as a result.
The reason? People would look at her and say she took unfair advantage of a system that many people think is corrupt in the first place.

On the Obama campaign’s “Life of Julia” slideshow chronicling the life of a fictional woman under the president’s policies:

If you look at the slides of her over her life — “helped,” “assisted,” pampered by the government, this is parody of liberal ideal — of the social-democratic ideal — of the cradle-to-grave entitlement state, which is exactly what Republicans are running against. I think it shows exactly the attitude that liberals have towards the individual.
This is how would you treat an orphan child rather than a grownup….