{"id":1389322,"date":"2022-03-19T07:58:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T11:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389322"},"modified":"2022-03-19T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T12:01:01","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-the-week-in-whoppers-bidens-debt-deception-the-ny-times-chinese-propagandist-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-the-week-in-whoppers-bidens-debt-deception-the-ny-times-chinese-propagandist-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: The Week in Whoppers: Biden\u2019s Debt Deception, the NY Times\u2019 Chinese Propagandist and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-post-editorial-board-the-week-in-whoppers-bidens-debt-deception-the-ny-times-chinese-propagandist-and-more%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2><strong>Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>This statistic: <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe United States has produced more barrels of oil a day under Biden\u2019s leadership than it did under Trump\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 New York magazine, March 13<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong>Lies, damn lies and . . .\u00a0 left-wing media reports. <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/03\/heres-how-biden-can-lower-gas-prices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York magazine compares<\/a> the average US oil output per day (10.968 million barrels) for <em>all<\/em> <em>four<\/em> of Donald Trump\u2019s years in office \u2014 i.e., when production was just ramping up from the lackluster Obama era (7.202 million barrels a day) and then fell due to the pandemic \u2014 with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/09\/why-biden-energy-policies-have-contributed-to-surging-oil-prices\/\">output during just <em>one year <\/em>of Joe Biden\u2019s term (<\/a>11.185 million barrels), when the economy was recovering. In fact, under Trump, US output hit 12.289 million barrels by 2019, well beyond Biden\u2019s first-year number. Even in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, production was higher (11.3 million barrels) under Trump than Biden.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2><strong>This claim:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cGovernment spending is . . . reducing the national debt. It is not inflationary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Friday, March 11<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/15\/yes-mr-president-the-government-can-cause-inflation\/\">Pelosi clearly thinks<\/a> Americans will buy anything. The truth? When you spend more money than you take in, you simply have to borrow\u00a0\u2014 as more Americans may now have to do, thanks to inflation\u2019s hit on the dollar\u2019s purchasing power. By the way, despite Pelosi\u2019s flagrant disinformation, it\u2019s precisely that spurt in national debt that drives inflation, as even left-leaning economists (like Clinton Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers) admit.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2><strong>This essay: <\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-NYT-china-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-NYT-china-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"A New York Times column suggested China should help end the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\" class=\"wp-image-21566683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-NYT-china-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-NYT-china-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-NYT-china-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A New York Times column suggested China should help end the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NY Post composite \/ istock\/ Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong>The New York Times is often criticized for espousing ideas that could\u2019ve come straight from the Chinese Communist Party playbook. But this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/13\/opinion\/china-russia-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it ran a column<\/a> by an actual CCP propagandist, Wang Huiyao, who argued for letting China mediate talks to end Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Research\/China%27s%20Overseas%20United%20Front%20Work%20-%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20US_final_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Per a US government report<\/a>, Wang is closely affiliated with the party\u2019s United Front Work Department, which is responsible for coordinating \u201cinfluence operations\u201d both in and out of China. Most outrageous, the paper originally hid his ties, describing Wang as merely the head of \u201ca nongovernmental think tank\u201d in Beijing. Later, it added that he \u201cadvises the Chinese government,\u201d yet that still grossly understates his role.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2><strong>This tweet:<\/strong> <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last year, the deficit dropped for the first time since 2015 \u2014 it fell by $360 billion.<\/p>\n<p>And this year, it\u2019s on track to drop by more than $1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>After four years in a row of increasing deficits, we\u2019re on track to see the largest-ever decline in history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1503837469434855431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong>Yet again, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1503837469434855431?s=20&#038;t=On5B_v_QDZNI1UCKPeJE8Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden is trying to take credit<\/a> for something he had nothing to do with, while ignoring the harm he and his fellow Democrats actually caused. Yes, the deficit dropped, but that\u2019s only because the ginormous, bipartisan emergency COVID spending fell after a vaccine became available in 2020 and the economy began to bounce back. Biden &#038; Co. <em>added <\/em>more red ink in 2021 by passing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. Oh, and the deficit still topped $1 trillion last year, for only the third time in history.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2><strong>This headline:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-WAPO-Youngkin-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-WAPO-Youngkin-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"The Washington Post published an inaccurate article about Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.\" class=\"wp-image-21566673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-WAPO-Youngkin-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-WAPO-Youngkin-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Whoppers-WAPO-Youngkin-03-18-22.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Washington Post published an inaccurate article about Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NY Post composite \/ istock\/ Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/03\/11\/virginia-youngkin-superintendents-tip-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It\u2019s the very definition <\/a>of fake news. The headline \u2014 and lede \u2014 assert that all 133 school supers urged Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to abolish a \u201ctip line\u201d that lets parents complain about school policies and to end his attacks on \u201cdivisive\u201d curriculum in schools. Yet the story itself later admits that\u2019s not what happened. The actual facts: The 12-member <em>executive board<\/em> of a group representing superintendents, not every member of the group, OK\u2019d a letter urging those steps. Indeed, some superintendents reportedly weren\u2019t even aware of the letter.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions This statistic: \u201cThe United States has produced more barrels of oil a day under Biden\u2019s leadership than it did under Trump\u2019s.\u201d \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}