In the welter of jubilant or bewildered analysis in the wake of the US Presidential election, one comment stands out from the rest.
Peter Savodnik considers what primarily ‘went wrong’, and concludes that the Democrats lost not because they spent too little or that they failed to recruit sufficient celebrity endorsements. They failed because they lied.
Had Democrats and the media been honest about how obvious Biden’s condition was a year ago, they might have a winning candidate now.
If you had been listening only to corporate and left-wing media for the past four years, you would think that Biden was just fine. Any story about his physical and mental decline was deemed false, just a mean-spirited Republican talking point.
From the border crisis to manufactured hoaxes about his opponent, there was almost no subject Biden didn’t lie about.
The facts are clear: Biden was handed an economy that was recovering at an unprecedented pace. Gross domestic product was rising at an annualized rate of $1.5 trillion. Annual inflation as measured by the consumer price index was 1.4%. A monthly average of 1.5 million people were returning to work as lockdowns were lifted.
Fox News host Sandra Smith fact-checked President Joe Biden Wednesday following a video clip of remarks he made about inflation at the White House.
According to an analysis published by left-leaning Politifact in March, Biden is “on pace to exceed Trump’s mark” on the national debt “by the time his term ends.”
The first week of February proved to be a hell of a news cycle for President Joe Biden. Depending on what happens in November, it may go down as the week he lost the election.
The need to inject yourself into everyone else’s tragedies — often with lies — isn’t empathy, it is narcissism.
President Joe Biden’s administration concedes that there is no scientific evidence to support an apparent recommendation to receive as many as six COVID-19 booster shots in a year.
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