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In article <v26gg3$2039m$1@dont-email.me>,
 moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 5/16/2024 7:26 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > In article <v25v99$1p9k8$2@dont-email.me>,
> >   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 5/16/2024 4:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>> In article <v25mp9$1nota$1@dont-email.me>,
> >>>    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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.
> > 
> >> "Inflation is a lagging economic indicator. It is reported after prices
> >> have already risen, which means the data it uses is historical."
> > 
> > What are you saying? That Biden is such a sly and clever fox that he's
> > somehow figured out that the 9% we're currently experiencing was really
> > the actual rate on the day of his inauguration THREE AND A HALF YEARS
> > AGO?
> > 
> > That when they say "lagging economic indicator", they mean something
> > that's almost a half decade out of date?
> > 
> > This is what you have to resort to in order to apologize for Biden's
> > outright lies?
> 
> You're complaining about the inflation rate "when Biden took office".

No, I didn't complain about what the rate was when Bide took office at 
all. I pointed out that Biden is LYING about the inflation rate when he 
took office. It was really only 1.4% but he's saying it was 9% so it 
doesn't look like he let things get out of control during his term.