President Joe Biden (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik)
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Although the Washington Post admitted in its latest investigation into the fact that “they were tempted to reward Two Pinocchios” for a recent quote from President Joe Biden about inflation, they eventually declined and said: “[W]We will leave this unrated and let the readers decide for themselves. “
Biden said on Thursday: “What people don’t know is that 70 percent of the rise in inflation is due to rising Putin’s prices due to the impact on oil prices. Seventy percent. “
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The Washington Post decided to get to the bottom of the claim by presenting the figures.
Gas pump shows current fuel prices, along with a sticker of President Joe Biden, at a gas station in Arlington, Virginia, on March 16, 2022 (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)
“Many people may believe that the president is referring to the headline annual figure in the inflation report – 8.5 percent… We certainly did it when we first heard this remark,” admitted Glen Kessler, a fact-checker.
But Kessler estimated that 70 percent of the rise in inflation from February to March was due to rising energy prices, and decided that was what Biden meant.
In general, he said: “Biden’s math is justified,” but at the same time, ordinary people would certainly assume that he was referring to 12-month inflation, not the one-month figure.
The Washington Post published an article Wednesday entitled “Lawyer Encourages Fossil Fuels for Poor Nations He Never Neglected.” (ERIC BARADAT / AFP via Getty Images)
Kessler said: “We were tempted to reward Two Pinocchios, essentially half true. It would certainly be more convenient for us if Biden specifically referred to the monthly inflation data. “
However, they refused to give him an assessment: “But he referred to the invasion that began 50 days ago. So we will leave this without an assessment and leave the readers to decide for themselves.”
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Newsbusters editor-in-chief Tim Graham told Fox News Digital that the newspaper left Biden easily, saying: promises to do better in the future. ”
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He then hinted that they would never give former President Donald Trump (who was given many four marks for Pinocchio throughout his presidency) the benefit of a suspicion like this. “The Post Pinocchio deeply believes that Democrats cannot be compared to Trump,” Graham said.
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The Biden administration has been pushing for a “Putin price hike” slogan for more than a month.
Even Democrats refrained from this point, as former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said in March: “People don’t believe that either. They know gas prices have been high before. You still haven’t gotten it right. You can’t blame Putin for everything in the economy. “
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