Posted on 02/24/2024 9:49:16 AM PST by Signalman
For basically the entire Biden presidency, the corporate media have been trying to sell Americans on the idea that the economy is as good as it could possibly be, given the circumstances. But the messaging hasn’t resonated with voters, and the President’s poll numbers on the economy remain well underwater. In response, Biden’s frustrated media allies have started complaining about voter ignorance and bemoaning that he has been denied “credit” for the “fantastic” economy.
Unfortunately for these self-appointed Biden surrogates in the media, telling voters not to believe their lying wallets is not a winning campaign strategy. If Americans continue to feel pain at the gas pump and the grocery store, no amount of kooky rationalizing by Stephanie Ruhle is going to change that.
Of course, the reason the corporate media are desperately insisting voters are wrong about the economy is because they want to boost Biden’s chances in the 2024 election. The administration itself has even tried instructing journalists on how to cover the economy, and it appears to have paid off for them. In late 2021, the White House held a series of private meetings with the heads of major news outlets, in which administration officials pressured the media to aggressively push any and all positive economic news, no matter how small.
Shortly thereafter, CNN’s coverage of oil and gas prices went from 77 percent negative to 79 percent positive, and suddenly almost every anchor on the network was hyping the recent 5¢-per-gallon drop refueling costs. “Relief at the pump,” they chanted excitedly.
No matter how bad Biden’s poll numbers get, these journalists will never treat them as an accurate reflection of economic conditions. As a result, many Biden stooges in the media have begun talking about the existence of a so-called “disconnect” between the state of the economy and voter sentiment.
Journalists have crafted a variety of excuses for why this mysterious disconnect exists — all of which amount to, essentially, the polls are wrong. On January 19, MSNBC host Chris Hayes suggested that perhaps Americans just weren’t paying close enough attention to the economy:
If people aren’t paying attention to it, then it’s very hard to go out and take credit. And especially when it comes to the Biden administration, they haven’t been getting nearly enough credit for a whole bunch of good stuff, like the economy.
That same evening, Hayes’s colleague Stephanie Ruhle theorized that perhaps the real culprit was blind partisanship: “Are we going to get to the point where facts do not matter, and for the economy example, people are going to feel the way that aligns with their political party?”
But easily the most absurd rational came from CNN’s John Berman back in July of 2023: voters just “like being unhappy.”
Unfortunately for these self-appointed Biden surrogates in the media, telling voters not to believe their lying wallets is not a winning campaign strategy. If Americans continue to feel pain at the gas pump and the grocery store, no amount of kooky rationalizing by Stephanie Ruhle is going to change that.
“... the economy is as good as it could possibly be, given the circumstances.....”
I am reminded of Voltaire’s book Candide when he stated “This is the best of all possible worlds” as a satire on life and the human condition.
Biden and his fellow travelers are just spouting nonsense they want people to believe.
I just got back from a trip to the grocery store and bought gas on the way home. I know better than what the media says.
The e oniony is actually quite good. As long as you don’t have to buy food, gas, heat a home or pay rent or mortgage or property taxes.
Went to buy an Original no-pulp (usually prefer pulp),
Tropicana 100% Orange Juice, 89 ounce.
All they wanted for it was $8.99.
I’ve been buying this every so often for 5-7 years.
It used to be $5.99.
Yeah, it’s just the public that doesn’t get it. /s
All thanks to Building Back Better.
Sounds like a sound byte James Carville would dream up.
What a pantload...
Why is the media sector laying so many folks off ,if everything is so wonderful?
Apparently these people don’t buy food.
According to the "genius" in the White House, the causes are greedflation and shrinkflation. It's all the fault of the grocery chains, certainly not BIDENOMICS.
ALSO DO NOT USE FOOD & ENERGY in COL calculations.
I have a large dog.
I buy Wal Mart brand kibble for him in 50# bags.
The cost has gone from 40 cents a pound to 59 cents a pound in less than 2 years.
I have no idea where these government types shop, but a lot of the things I buy at the grocery store have risen over 50% since Biden was installed.
“The WH has gone to war on people”. He sure as hell has gone to war on the American farmer. My input costs to grow food out here in central Kansas have nearly tripled since that POS took office, but the price I receive for the commodities I grow have not appreciated in anywhere near a commensurate fashion, yet the price of groceries has skyrocketed. Somebody along the chain is doing pretty well, but it isn’t the American farmer/rancher. Just an observation from an old Kansas farm boy.
Pauline Kael of the New Yorker was said to have remarked:
“I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”
Revised allegedly accurate statement:
‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.’”
Notice the media Leftist Bubble is still intact. We are outside.
Pay no attention to that little man behind the curtain.
Schiff-ty will be elected to the Senate. Hard to believe people are that stupid. That’s why California is a “loser State”.
“Media: The Economy Is Actually ‘Fantastic,’ Voters Are Just Too Dumb To Notice”
Democrat voters are. They don’t believe their lying bank account.
Everyone along the chain is hit with Biden’s war on energy and every other thing the bastard has savaged.
Yeah, the economy’s so great I can’t afford a home of my own or to rend and both gas and a week’s worth of groceries are a greater percentage of my income than they were six years ago.
Yeah, it’s awesome.
You are haffing a gut time und enchoying it, vedder you like it or not. Now stop complaining and vote your gratitude to me, your dear leader.
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