Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon! Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 16:46:02 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 22:46:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e2296f33078349700917694da39e9b91"; logging-data="1855665"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Kupxd5hFwaslZGkG8/lGxUPJBqR1mqNA=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yU7RyfSXt5khRTEatLxKsSn22YA= Bytes: 2485 On Thu, 16 May 2024 13:18:27 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >In article , > Ubiquitous wrote: > >> For the second time in a week, President Joe Biden made a false claim about >> inflation-- and he did not get away with it as journalists and political >> rivals called him out on it. >> >> Biden told Yahoo Finance in an interview on Tuesday that inflation was at 9% >> when he became president back in January 2021. >> >> However, as fact-checkers pointed out when Biden made the same assertion >> during a CNN town hall last week, inflation actually was at 1.4% when he >> took office. > >But Trump is the one who lies all the time. We should vote for Biden >because he doesn't lie, they say. > >> The latest gaffe by the president > >It's not a gaffe. A gaffe is an unintentional mistake. This is an >intentional bald-faced lie. And so is the media downplaying it as a mere >gaffe. Biden is lying and the media is lying about his lies. > >Biden's team knows what the inflation rate was when Biden took office >and they're intentionally lying about it because they know that the >grocery bill is something that Mr. & Mrs. Middle America are going to >vote on. It's also something the President doesn't have real control over. They can help influence it but other than doing something drastic like entering a world war it's not under their control.