{"id":1419281,"date":"2022-04-05T08:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1419281"},"modified":"2022-04-05T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T12:01:49","slug":"bidens-media-lapdogs-if-everything-werent-horrible-everything-would-be-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-media-lapdogs-if-everything-werent-horrible-everything-would-be-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Media Lapdogs: If Everything Weren\u2019t Horrible, Everything Would Be Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fbidens-media-lapdogs-if-everything-werent-horrible-everything-would-be-awesome%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=1419281&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--><p>Gas prices are at record highs, grocery bills are through the roof, and supply-chain disruptions are still leaving business shelves bare, but even amid the instability, some things never change: Democrats\u2019 media lapdogs are still spinning the facts to a dizzying degree.<\/p>\n<p>As an apt illustration, The Washington Post shared this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/04\/03\/biden-economy-extraordinary-but-wont-save-democrats-inflation\/?utm_campaign=wp_main&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social\">article<\/a> about Biden\u2019s economy, from self-serious columnist Jennifer Rubin, to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1510938849844813831\">Twitter<\/a> on Monday with the following snippet: \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for inflation, this president\u2019s economic performance would be unmatched.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-04-at-2.22.04-PM-1024x864-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270133\" width=\"799\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-04-at-2.22.04-PM-1024x864-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-04-at-2.22.04-PM-300x253-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-04-at-2.22.04-PM-768x648-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-04-at-2.22.04-PM.png 1194w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>You really can\u2019t make this stuff up. America is in such dire straits under the leadership of barely coherent President Joe Biden that the only way left to defend him is to say, <em>If it weren\u2019t for everything being horrible, it would all be wonderful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To help Biden\u2019s media lapdogs out, here are a few more amazing things \u2014 or, you know, things that <em>would<\/em> <em>be<\/em> if the opposite were reality.<\/p>\n<h2>If It Weren\u2019t for Gasoline Being $5 a Gallon, Gas Would Be So Affordable<\/h2>\n<p>Gas has jumped 100 percent since 2020, with the national average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/charts\">above $4.00 per gallon<\/a>. In some areas of the country, it\u2019s a couple of dollars more, with fuel just outside Death Valley in California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2022\/03\/29\/gas-prices-california-death-valley-station\/3501648547915\/\">topping the charts<\/a> at nearly $9.00 per gallon. <\/p>\n<p>If the Washington Post needs help framing stories on gas prices, they\u2019re welcome to use this headline: \u201cIf Biden\u2019s $5 Gasoline Were Less Expensive, It Would Be Cheaper.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>If It Weren\u2019t for Short-Staffing, Businesses Would Be Fully Staffed<\/h2>\n<p>Even as Rubin pumps recent employment numbers, plenty of stores across the country are still displaying \u201ctemporary hours\u201d signs, waitresses are apologizing for slow service because \u201cwe\u2019re just so short-staffed,\u201d and \u201cwe\u2019re hiring\u201d signs are ubiquitous.<\/p>\n<p>The pseudo boost in jobs isn\u2019t coming from some sort of economic boom; it\u2019s a painfully slow recovery from government lockdowns that hasn\u2019t even reached where we were before the pandemic. Furthermore, the \u201cunemployment rate\u201d tells you nothing of the multitudes of people who opted to exit the labor force altogether and therefore aren\u2019t included in the figure. But as the media would tell you, \u201cIf It Weren\u2019t For Short-Staffing, Businesses Would Have All The Staff They Need.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>If It Weren\u2019t for Supply-Chain Lockdowns, We Could Get Necessary Goods<\/h2>\n<p>Essential items are still taking forever to make it to their destinations, thus the shipping delays and empty shelves. That\u2019s one of the many reasons the Biden administration\u2019s gas-price solution of just buying an electric car was so absurd (that and, of course, the price tag). <\/p>\n<p>But supply-chain disruptions certainly aren\u2019t the Biden administration\u2019s fault, and they\u2019re not really a problem anyway because \u2014 and again, corporate press, feel free to nab this headline \u2014 \u201cIf It Weren\u2019t For Supply-Chain Issues, We Could Get Our Hands On All The Things We Need.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>If It Weren\u2019t for the Humanitarian Crisis on the U.S. Border, Biden\u2019s Policies Would Be Second to None<\/h2>\n<p>After Biden\u2019s political posture prompted more than 2 million Border Patrol encounters with illegal aliens on the border in 2021 alone, what could go wrong with his administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/04\/senate-democrats-should-demand-biden-address-his-border-disaster-before-giving-him-a-supreme-court-justice\/\">plans to repeal Title 42<\/a>, the Trump-era policy that sped up the return of illegal border-crossers during Covid-19?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to his policies, dangerous cartels are empowered <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/01\/09\/lawless-borders-humanitarian-crisis-past-time-finally-solve\/\">at the expense of women and children<\/a>, and desperate migrants are left vulnerable at the mercy of the elements and the deadly Rio Grande. Yet journalists have used their platforms to explain that the border crisis is a result of the president being so \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/25\/in-first-biden-presser-compliant-corrupt-taxpayer-funded-media-ask-if-hes-just-too-moral-and-decent\/\">moral<\/a>,\u201d so they would probably be interested in a headline like, \u201cIf They Weren\u2019t Empowering Cartels To Rape Women, Biden\u2019s Border Policies Would Be Top Notch.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>If It Weren\u2019t for Biden Family Scandals, This President Would Be Scandal-Free<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve known that Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop was real since before the 2020 election \u2014 and thus all that the bombshell entails for his \u201cbig guy\u201d father and their family corruption. But even as the corrupt media finally come out and admit it, they\u2019re burying the lede to take attention off the Biden family and give the illusion that this administration is scandal-free. <\/p>\n<p>In other words, their Biden coverage has the same air about it as Rubin\u2019s fare: \u201cPOTUS Would Be Scandal-Less\u2026 If It Weren\u2019t For The Biden Family\u2019s Hard Drives Being Utterly <em>Scandalous<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>If We Weren\u2019t Depending on Foreign Adversaries for Oil, Biden\u2019s America Would Be Energy Independent<\/h2>\n<p>Shortly after Biden willfully relinquished America\u2019s energy independence that was achieved under President Donald Trump, our country has gotten a front-row seat to the atrocities that result from relying on your enemies for commodities such as oil.<\/p>\n<p>The president and his press secretary have done their best to assure us that canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and suspending federal oil and gas leases had no effect on U.S. oil production. But one thing we can know for sure is that \u201cIf It Weren\u2019t For Our Energy Dependence On Foreign Enemies, Biden\u2019s America Would Be Energy Independent.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>This Is the Media\u2019s Pattern<\/h2>\n<p>Rubin and The Washington Post make criticism of their work too easy, but Monday\u2019s embarrassingly blatant spin wasn\u2019t a lapse in journalistic judgment or a one-off oopsie. This type of framing is the media\u2019s pattern, and it isn\u2019t relegated to opinion columns. <\/p>\n<p>It pervades America\u2019s newsrooms. It also seeps out in fake fact-checks that acknowledge a statement is true but rate it \u201cmostly false,\u201d in wire stories that co-opt language like \u201cpro-choice\u201d and subversive pronouns, and in the continued use of Trump as a red herring to distract from whatever Biden nightmare is unfolding on a given day.<\/p>\n<p>The corporate media are nothing more than a public relations arm for the Democrat Party, even if it means making nonsensical declarations like \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for inflation, this president\u2019s economic performance would be unmatched.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas prices are at record highs, grocery bills are through the roof, and supply-chain disruptions are still leaving business shelves bare, but even amid the instability, some things never change:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"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-1419281","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\/1419281","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\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419281\/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=1419281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}