As Twitchy reported earlier, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that the Biden administration’s 2021 accomplishments — including COVID vaccines — were outlined in a new memo. Drew Holden has obtained a copy of that memo that went out to media outlets and he’s breaking it down for us. This is what the White House is telling the media to report on as the year comes to a close — and being the stenographers they are, that’s what they’ll do.
NEW: The Biden Admin sent talking points out today touting their accomplishments to (some) reporters. It can only be described as a war on reality.
Quick 🧵 to break down the end-of-year desperation they’re hoping the press will buy. ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/HquD86eO2u
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
First, vaccination rates. Without mentioning that the Admin inherited three vaccines from their predecessor, Biden claims credit for a 70% jump in vaccination rate year-over-year. pic.twitter.com/ORF4bYm8w9
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
A year ago, the first vaccine had been administered one week prior, so OF COURSE vax rates were low.
But when Biden was sworn in, the US was vaccinating citizens at the 5th highest rate in the developed world.
That # has fallen dramatically under Biden. https://t.co/TJEH6mVk8p
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
And the school opening stat is despite, not because of, the Admin, who has repeatedly pushed for anti-science measures at the behest of the teachers’ unions. https://t.co/wwfrLS4zaZ pic.twitter.com/8ual1BBcqU
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
“Today 99 percent of schools are open” — except a bunch of them are reverting back to remote learning over the winter break and into January.
This same ham-fistedness applies to the stats on job creation, too.
Was anything happening in the last 3-5 months of the Trump Admin, guys? Might that factor in? pic.twitter.com/5z7QVxWrIR
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
Funny that the White House specifically states that 229,000 state and local jobs were lost “in the final five months of the Trump administration.” Why focus on just those five months?
Taking credit for the creation of local and state jobs is also intellectually dishonest when so many of the largest job creating states – Florida, Texas, etc. – not only didn’t vote for Biden but have (with good reason) rejected his economic advice. https://t.co/a9ZpSOTeVh
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
And I mean cmon. If someone thought REALLY hard, I’m sure they could figure out why hospitality jobs have come back whether or not the Admin had done anything. pic.twitter.com/qmW1krmJJJ
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
Again, “in the final 3 months of the Trump administration,” leisure and hospitality jobs were lost. Hmm, what could have affected places like restaurants?
But it gets even more ridiculous when the Biden Admin tries to combat reality on inflation.
Biden touts his “aggressive actions to address prices” in an attempt to elide that prices for consumer goods are near a 40 year high as a result of his policies. pic.twitter.com/cezbJVG5kN
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
“The price of gas at the pump has decreased nearly 10 cents since its peak.” And what was that peak? And how does it compare to gas prices last year? This is as dumb as their claim you were saving $0.16 on your Fourth of July barbecue.
Absent from this is that nearly 70% of Americans think Biden is doing a bad job at handling inflation and the economy. That even includes a *majority* of Dems.
You can almost feel the desperation coming off of the memo here. pic.twitter.com/kC1MTqOLY7
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
I mean. How bad must things be to include gas prices dropping 10 cents *below their recent highs* as a victory? pic.twitter.com/HAoV6snqfQ
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain actually retweeted that graph showing gas prices falling … two cents over a week.
The Biden Admin can spin these “facts” all they want, but it clearly isn’t convincing voters. His disapproval rate is over 50%, fully 6 points below Obama’s at this point before the 2010 midterm wipeout.
I’m sure that’ll keep the spin doctors busy. https://t.co/VaWa2YOqfa
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
You can read the full memo here: pic.twitter.com/uAYqGkmOwM
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2021
— Emergency-Gif-Response (@Emergency_Gifs) December 18, 2021
A glimpse at how the machine works.
— Daniel Lee (@granitesentry) December 18, 2021
Source: 'as obtained'
— Omicron Persei 8 RonaldMcPaul, 💎balls (@RonaldMcPaul) December 18, 2021
Why does the WH get to tell the reporters how they “can” source the info? If the reporter sourced it as “distributed by the WH,” would they then be cut off from access?
— Vin Sidious (@VinSidious) December 18, 2021
"Hey all, here are things you can tell the public because you love Dear Leader…"
— Attila the Honeybun (@AttilaSaysMeow) December 18, 2021
The real problem, in my opinion, is that no one respects Biden as a person any longer. It’s clear his brain is melted ice cream. And our enemies have noticed.
— Vivienne Bouché (@BoucheVivienne) December 18, 2021
The Biden administration is touting "gas prices" — which have increased by about $1 per gallon under Biden — as one of their signature wins in 2021: https://t.co/JrywHa7cuU
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) December 18, 2021
They’ve already had meetings with the media to show them how to report on the Biden economic “boom” — now they’re writing their year-in-review stories for them.
Related:
‘Aren’t those Trump’s vaccines?’ Jen Psaki points to Biden admin’s ‘year 1 accomplishments’ (and people have thoughts) https://t.co/o1thmKibNz
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 18, 2021
