President Joe Biden continues to seek out excuses as to why he is not the one guilty for inflation.
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Hand it to President Joe Biden, he can nonetheless ship the press corps haring off after an irrelevant remark, as he did by blaming inflation hovering to a brand new, four-decade excessive of 8.5% in March on Vladimir Putin’s “genocide” in Ukraine.
His assertion in Menlo, Iowa, did what it was supposed to do. It made a lot of the media speak about Biden’s “first use” of that phrase, as an alternative of his lie that he’s to not blame for inflation.
However the precise coverage change it signaled was . . . nothing.
Biden’s not deciding to ship many extra offensive weapons to Ukraine. He’s not calling for a global legal courtroom to strive Putin. It doesn’t matter what label you placed on the invaders’ horrific slaughter of innocents, solely what you do to cease it, to reverse Putin’s good points and to make him pay. And Biden isn’t doing any of that.
Nope, he’s doing one factor solely: cynically utilizing Putin to distract from his colossal home failures.
Wednesday’s grim information that producer costs jumped 11.2% in March (over March 2021) means client costs will proceed to soar in coming months. And no phrases out of Biden’s mouth will change that except they’re “Drill, child, drill” as he broadcasts the tip of his conflict on the US power trade.
Saying “genocide” doesn’t change US coverage on Russia’s conflict on Ukraine, and it definitely doesn’t distract common Individuals from all of the payments which can be rising lots sooner than their take-home pay. That a lot of the media fixated on the phrase is simply one other signal of how out of contact the nation’s “information” trade has grown.
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