As Twitchy reported earlier, prices rose in March 8.5 percent over a year ago, making it the biggest annual increase in four decades. The mainstream media is doing its best to help the Biden administration spin that terrible number, blaming the rising costs of everything on “Putin’s price hike.” NBC News even tweeted that “Inflation hits 40-year high of 8.5 percent due to war in Ukraine.” How that explains the previous year’s steady rise in gas prices we’re not sure.
Byron York has a piece in the Washington Examiner today looking at the inflation numbers, and he shared a press release from the War Room that explained in very few words that Republicans are cheering on Putin’s price hikes as Putin “takes credit” for global inflation and rising gas prices.
“Instead of blaming Putin for rising prices — like the majority of Americans”? Citation needed.
Putin "takes credit"?
— Rik_N_Backer (@denniswenmouth) April 12, 2022
Can anyone at the War Room point me to a source where Vladimir Putin "takes credit" for inflation?
I haven't seen that.— Benjamin Martin VII (@KVollero) April 12, 2022
So, not corporate greed this time?
— Lido Ming (@MingLido) April 12, 2022
Elizabeth Warren is still beating the drum of price gouging and corporate greed. Maybe it’s really corporate greed but Putin is just taking credit for it.
Putin is magical. He can steal elections and cause U.S. inflation. Is there anything he can’t do?
— Peter North (@PeterNo53259503) April 12, 2022
It’s funny how they blame Putin as if the war in Ukraine isn’t a Biden foreign policy failure on top of his economic policy failures
— SM (@Scottymcmahon22) April 12, 2022
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Well said.
I find it so damn ironic that, a bunch of people who assiduously avoid military service, call themselves “the war room.“…
— Rico Reynolds (@RicoReynolds6) April 12, 2022
Jen Psaki, too, is blaming inflation on the “Putin price hike” — that’s the administration’s story and they’re sticking to it. And Republicans, who love Putin, are cheering him on because they know their voters love higher prices.
Related:
Looks like the MSM have gotten the Biden admin’s memo on how to spin horrendous new inflation data https://t.co/o1Sw3FYOzZ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 12, 2022
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