{"id":2030395,"date":"2023-09-13T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-inflation-spikes-again-biden-and-medias-boasts-about-record-price-hikes-cooling-are-offensive-as-ever\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:12:01","slug":"as-inflation-spikes-again-biden-and-medias-boasts-about-record-price-hikes-cooling-are-offensive-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-inflation-spikes-again-biden-and-medias-boasts-about-record-price-hikes-cooling-are-offensive-as-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"As Inflation Spikes Again, Biden And Media\u2019s Boasts About Record Price Hikes \u2018Cooling\u2019 Are Offensive As Ever"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fas-inflation-spikes-again-biden-and-medias-boasts-about-record-price-hikes-cooling-are-offensive-as-ever%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=2030395&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--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden and his administration want nothing more than to take credit for what corporate media spin as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/local\/expert-encouraged-by-decreasing-inflation-rate-but-consumers-still-feel-the-pain-in-their-pocketbooks-uab-economics-us-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decreasing<\/a>\u201d inflation, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019 latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consumer price index<\/a> indicates that Americans paid 3.7 percent more for basic consumer items in August than they did last year.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, hardworking taxpayers shelled out 2.1 percent more dollars on electricity, 4.3 percent more on food, 3.1 percent more on clothes, and 7.3 percent more on shelter last month than in August 2022. Even compared to July 2023, prices across the board rose 0.2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration, its allies in the corporate media, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/13\/the-economic-experts-shilling-for-biden-were-wrong-about-inflation-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cexperts\u201d<\/a> often claim that inflation already <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/good-news-inflation-peaked-171033972.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cpeaked\u201d<\/a>\u00a0or is <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/inflation-data-show-prices-continued-cooling-december\/story?id=96363786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ccooling,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/12\/13\/business\/november-inflation-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ceasing,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1602659433229721604?s=20&#038;t=O4cuWooJk6GleWQOU5x2IQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cslowing,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1613564973958963208?s=20&#038;t=35EhKUFfQRkRf80RchTGcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cfell,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1613543824604729346?s=20&#038;t=35EhKUFfQRkRf80RchTGcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP\/status\/1613630897365913629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cdown.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans feel better about their personal finances [because of Biden\u2019s] policies,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed in June. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jean-Pierre: &#8220;Americans feel better about their personal finances [because] of [Biden&#8217;s] policies.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/of5yqp4MT7\">pic.twitter.com\/of5yqp4MT7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1673406702278803456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Not only do they insist skyrocketing prices are \u201ctemporary\u201d and \u201ctransitory,\u201d but they\u2019ve even manipulated the definition of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/28\/its-official-the-joe-biden-recession-has-begun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recession<\/a> to make their flailing economic track record look better. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>REMINDER: Every single thing the Biden administration has said about inflation has been wrong.<\/p>\n<p>THAT&#8217;S BIDENOMICS!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OkCUNstNHK\">pic.twitter.com\/OkCUNstNHK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1701946222565642271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Days before the latest CPI report debuted, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/POTUS\/status\/1699858826474717567?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bragged<\/a> on social media that his \u201cBidenomics\u201d was working to \u201cget inflation down.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/POTUS\/status\/1697361001388097805?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reassured<\/a> Americans that the price increases they suffered over the summer \u201care signs our economic agenda is delivering.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve brought the economy back,\u201d CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria told Biden in July.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria to Pres. Biden: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a lot of people do watch you and are impressed and they think you&#8217;ve been a great President. You&#8217;ve brought the economy back. You&#8217;ve restored relations with the world.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZE6beEI4C8\">pic.twitter.com\/ZE6beEI4C8<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1678114609159450624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This was, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/10\/corporate-media-try-to-out-lie-americas-biggest-liar-over-his-terrible-track-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a lie<\/a>. But it was one that the White House and the press willingly amplified. <\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of 2023, Biden and the media teamed up <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/13\/biden-media-taunt-struggling-americans-by-insisting-6-5-inflation-is-a-good-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in an attempt to convince Americans<\/a> that 6.5 percent year-over-year inflation was a good thing.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>More recently, publications like The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/07\/14\/inflation-reduction-credit-traditional-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demanded<\/a> Americans \u201ccredit Biden\u201d for this so-called \u201ccooling inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No amount of wool-pulling or rhetoric, however, can shield the regime from the fact that since Biden took office in January 2021, Americans have not experienced a month where overall inflation was not higher than it was before he was elected. <\/p>\n<p>CPI numbers may have occasionally decreased slightly from the 40-year high that\u2019s defined Biden\u2019s presidency but a decimal of a percent \u201cdrop\u201d from the previous month\u2019s shocking calculations is certainly not worth celebrating. Since Biden took office in January 2021, inflation has never fallen far enough to do much good for Americans thwarted by looming price hikes at the pump and the grocery store. <\/p>\n<p>Biden promised to do something about inflation, and his cabinet and corporate media cronies capitalized on these lies. So far, all he\u2019s done is sign off on legislation and policies that inevitably continue to increase prices and taxes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/10\/joe-biden-is-waging-war-on-the-middle-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on all Americans, but especially the middle class<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden and his administration want nothing more than to take credit for what corporate media spin as \u201cdecreasing\u201d inflation, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019 latest consumer price index indicates that Americans paid 3.7 percent more for basic consumer items in August than they did last year. Overall, hardworking taxpayers shelled out 2.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2030396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030395","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}