{"id":1443399,"date":"2022-04-18T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1443399"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:59:47","slug":"alleged-wapo-fact-checker-uses-kid-gloves-on-biden-when-fact-checking-putinflation-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-wapo-fact-checker-uses-kid-gloves-on-biden-when-fact-checking-putinflation-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged WaPo Fact Checker Uses Kid-Gloves on Biden When Fact Checking \u201cPutinflation\u201d Narrative"},"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\">26<\/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%2Falleged-wapo-fact-checker-uses-kid-gloves-on-biden-when-fact-checking-putinflation-narrative%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=1443399&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><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>gain attempting to pin the blame for what he first predicted would be \u201ctransitory\u201d inflation, Joe Biden is doubling down on his dubious \u201cPutin price hike\u201d narrative.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent event in Greensboro, North Carolina, Biden said in response to inflation as measured by the consumer price index clocking in at 8.5% in March, \u201cPutin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world. Ukraine and Russia are the one and two largest wheat producers in the world. We\u2019re three. They\u2019re shut down. We saw that in yesterday\u2019s inflation data. \u201cWhat people don\u2019t know is that 70% of the increase in inflation was the consequence of Putin\u2019s Price Hike because of the impact on oil prices. Seventy percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was at least specific enough to claim that the 70% of the increase he\u2019s blaming on Putin was only for March, but even if we were to take him at his word, that would prove that only a miniscule percentage of total Bidenflation is due to Putin, as can be seen on the chart below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In other words, inflation went from averaging under 2% a month (on a year-over-year basis) under Biden to 8.5% in March, and Biden is blaming 70% of the jump from February\u2019s 7.9% inflation to 8.5% inflation on Putin. Despite its phrasing, one can only conclude that Biden was hoping people would be misled into thinking most of all the recent inflation was due to Putin from his comments. After all, when put into context, it basically proves the opposite of the Biden narrative.<\/p>\n<p>And with little exception, the media\u2019s alleged fact checkers were happy to either ignore this comment from Biden, or handle it with kid gloves when examining its merits.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s partisan hack fact checker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/15\/bidens-claim-70-inflation-jump-was-due-putins-price-hike\/\">Glenn Kessler<\/a> (known for fact joking obvious jokes and hyperbole from Trump during his presidency) looked at the claim, and didn\u2019t award it any \u201cPinocchio\u2019s\u201d (but claimed he was tempted to award it two Pinocchios).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people might believe the president was referring to the headline annual number in the inflation report \u2014 8.5 percent \u2026 We certainly did when we first heard this line,\u201d Kessler admitted, adding that he believes Biden\u2019s claim is still defensible since it\u2019s specific to March. \u201cBiden\u2019s math is defensible \u2026 but at the same time, ordinary people might certainly have assumed he was referring to the 12-month inflation rate, not the one-month figure.\u201d No kidding.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it\u2019s apparently up to the reader to decipher Biden\u2019s comments, with Kessler concluding \u201cBut he did refer to the invasion that began 50 days ago. So we will leave this unrated and let readers decide for themselves.\u201d And that\u2019s exactly what Biden was hoping people would do \u2013 decide for themselves incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>If only there was someone to check the facts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Palumbo is the author of\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss Unfiltered With Dan Bongino every Saturday on Fox News at 9PM\/ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again attempting to pin the blame for what he first predicted would be \u201ctransitory\u201d inflation, Joe Biden is doubling down on his dubious \u201cPutin price hike\u201d narrative.During a recent event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443399","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\/1443399","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443399\/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=1443399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}