His crumbling public approval rating must be troubling to President Joe Biden. But can it possibly compare to learning that the liberal mainstream media is turning on him as well?
On Tuesday, the New York Times sent an email to its morning update subscribers with the headline: “Who’s to blame for inflation?”
“It is dragging down President Biden’s approval ratings and fueling discontent among Americans,” writes senior economics correspondent Neil Irwin. “How did we get here? Who is to blame?”
We fully expected the Times to make excuses for Biden. And at first, it looks as though that is what Irwin is going to do, writing that “presidents have less control over the economy than headlines might suggest.” But then he adds that “the current situation is an exception to the rule.”
And even more remarkable is what comes next. Irwin writes:
You can draw a direct line from a specific policy decision that Biden and congressional Democrats made this past winter to some of the inflation happening now.
In designing the stimulus that Congress passed in March, Biden’s administration went big, with $1.9 trillion in pandemic relief — on top of a separate $900 billion package that passed three months earlier. Put the two together, and $2.8 trillion in federal money has been coursing through the economy this year while economic activity has trended only a few hundred billion dollars a year short of what mainstream analysts would consider full health.
The fact that the Times, along with others in the mainstream media, admits that inflation is a problem is in itself a noteworthy development, since for months it insisted that it was just a data anomaly – one that Republicans were trying to exploit for political gain.
Now, with prices for many common household goods having gone up by double digits over the past few months and no end in sight for the trend, the inflation story is impossible to ignore.
But the fact that any one of these “news” outlets is willing to blame Biden for the inflation spiral is a truly stunning development, given they’d spent months blasting out “fact checks” that aggressively slapped down any such claim.
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In April, for example, a USA Today “fact check” told readers that COVID-19 was “to blame for spike in lumber prices, not Biden.” In June, it ran another saying that “Rising gas prices due to high demand and low supply, not Biden’s policies.”
The next month, AP declared that “House GOP falsely blames Biden for gas prices.”
When Republican Sen. Rick Scott stated in July that “Thanks to the insane tax-and-spending spree of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington, we are seeing six straight months of raging inflation,” the “fact checking” site PolitiFact labeled it “Mostly False.”
In August, CNN approvingly quoted the Democrats’ all-time favorite economist, Mark Zandi, as saying that “the jump in inflation has nothing to do with tax and spending policies.”
As is so often the case, the public was way ahead of the mainstream press on this one. A poll in June found that twice as many people blamed Biden as President Donald Trump for rising inflation.
It’s worth noting that the Times admission of Biden’s fault regarding inflation comes after CNN ran a piece exposing the growing antagonism between Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Which raises questions such as:
Why didn’t the New York Times editors “correct” Irwin’s story before it went out? Is it suddenly OK to run hit pieces on Biden, even if it risks helping Republicans? If so, what’s changed in the corporate newsrooms to allow such an infamia?
Now, bear in mind that we are not saying that the media has suddenly decided to do its job and cover the facts. As we pointed out yesterday, the mainstream press has racked up such an incredibly long list of false and misleading stories, all designed to help drive a leftist narrative, that it has pretty much lost all credibility outside crossword puzzles and TV listings.
But that makes this recent development at the New York Times even more astonishing. If the mainstream media lose faith in Biden, who will be left to defend him? Jimmy Carter?
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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“If the mainstream media lose faith in Biden, who will be left to defend him? Jimmy Carter?”
Funny you should mention Mr. Carter. In the runup to the election, I told all of my family and friends that Biden was the second coming of Jimmy Carter. Few believed me at the time.
as pitiful as mr peanut was [the rabbit may have been his high point] i do not think he actively hated America
husein and xiden do
Jimmy Carter will never defend Biden. LGB is his best bet for not being the worst president in modern US history.
One tiny “outbreak” of truth in one media outlet that is part of the monolithic Democrat-controlled mainstream media propaganda machine. The fact that this brief outbreak of truth, this tiny crack in the facade, is so notable speaks volumes about the iron-grip totalitarian narrative of lies controlling the USA. The fact that a steady diet of lies punctuated by an occasional truth is now a cause for celebration is vivid testimony to how bad it has gotten.
How about the infrastructure bill?
Keep your negativity to yourself!
Looks like the emperor is in fact wearing clothes.That’s a start.
the new york slime publishing a fact based story?
i now have a new location for a snow shovel franchise
NYT is sticking to the plan: exploit an old white opportunist politician who has dementia and bait and switch in a true Socialist Woman of Color. The VP is now in jeopardy and the Biden Crime Family is (with surprise to no-one) betraying them. You are witnessing a Leftist civil war. Harris needs to read up on the fate of Trotsky.
Yes Biden and the Democrats are 100% responsible for the out of control inflation, and its going to get worse. However, its not just the incredible amount of printed funny money they dumped into our economy its the decisions they made day 1 when they killed the Keystone Pipeline and started systematically destroying US energy independence that all Presidents in my 64 years had promised but only Trump delivered. Biden took over 2 million barrels of oil and even more clean burning natural gas out of production in months with his policies and made it impossible for Canada to produce and deliver their oil and gas to market. He and Democrats handed control of energy pricing to Putin and Saudi Arabia and they want prices that will make our eyes bleed. Its not that Biden doubled gas prices, heating oils prices, and cause the world to burn millions of tons more dirty coal, its what that does to everything else. Energy effects everything especially food. Food production required huge amounts of energy so not only do we get gas increase we get out of control food price increases. Than dump all the printed money, plus the COVID mandates firing millions of workers and destroying our supply chain out of total incompetence and prices will continue to spiral out of control. Worse, Biden just dumped that corrupt infrastructure bill on us which is 25% or less infrastructure. That will fuel more increases, and if they pass that massive corrupt $4 to 5 trillion reconciliation bill the USA will have hyper inflation like we’ve never seen.
NYT didn’t mention his shutting down oil production. That immediately started the price of gasoline to rise. That ripples throughout the economy due to to rising shipping costs. Then there is the kowtowing to the Longshoreman’s Union. Also, when you print more dollars, the value of the the dollar falls. Then it takes more of them to buy things. 40% of all dollars in circulation have been printed in the last two years.
shut the valve and let them freeze
just a wrist slap, the commies never turn on a fellow travler
Losing The New York Times can’t be considered a loss.