Quote:The first four months of the Biden administration certainly have not been uneventful, but the coverage from the liberal media has been markedly different than under President Donald Trump.

On a host of issues, the coverage from left-leaning news outlets has kept President Joe Biden out of the story, while during the Trump administration, pretty much everything was about Orange Man Bad. To be fair, the former president made a lot of things about himself, but if the recent gas shortage happened under Trump (or any Republican president), how many news outlets would be blaming him and demanding a response? So far, there has been almost no pressure on the Biden administration to do something about the various issues erupting under his watch.

It was headline news when The Washington Post claimed the U.S. electricity grid was hacked through a utility in Vermont. It turned out that the real story was far more mundane: An employee’s laptop had some malware on it, but that laptop wasn’t connected to the electric grid and the malware had nothing to do with some Russian plot to hack America’s energy systems. Yet when the largest pipeline in the southeast U.S. gets its business computers hacked by a criminal gang, Israel and Hamas are seconds away from war, inflation jumps, and our Southern Border is being overrun by illegal immigrants, the main story from major news outlets is that Republicans ousted Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from leadership.

To be clear, nothing Biden did or did not do caused the Colonial Pipeline hack. The affected computers weren’t even connected to the pipeline, but Colonial shut it down anyway as a precaution. People then panicked about a gas shortage, so they rushed to fill up their tanks and whatever else they could find to contain fuel. This caused gas stations to run out, leading to long lines and higher prices. Had everyone remained calm and considered that the pipeline would probably be brought back online soon, there wouldn’t have been an issue. But as such, we had a short-lived crisis.

Had that happened under Trump, he would have been blamed, constantly questioned about how it was his fault or how he needed to fix it, demanding he reassure the American people, etc. But Biden — as we can expect will be the case for the entirety of his presidency — gets a pass from the sycophantic media.

Eight months ago, Trump achieved historic deals between several Arab nations and Israel. It was a start, and it signaled the beginning of potential change in the region. More work was obviously needed, but the Biden administration’s Middle East policy has been an abrupt change – abandoning Israel, trying to cozy up to Iran, while disparaging countries like Saudi Arabia, which is far from perfect but is at least willing to work with us (and not a threat to nuke the planet). Now, the media reports on rocket fire into Israel every few years, but had the current situation happened under Trump, there would have been a lot more media pressure and blame. As it stands now, Trump is still getting blamed for the conflict even though he is out of office.

Next, we’re seeing inflation at levels not seen since the Great Recession, but yet again, coverage is steered away from Biden and his administration in a way it wouldn’t be if Trump were president. Trump’s tax cuts would be blamed, as would his spending and, of course, his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, Biden’s rampant spending is left out of the discussion, as is his suggested policies of massive tax hikes. Further, the disastrous April jobs report has already been lost to memory. Again, if Trump were president, this would all still be front page, top-of-the-hour news, with “experts” (code for former Obama officials) on news outlets round the clock to explain how this is all Trump’s fault and how President Barack Obama supposedly did everything right.

Finally, we have the ongoing Border Crisis, which the Biden administration wants to call a “challenge.” As NewsBusters reported on Wednesday, networks are “burying” the staggering numbers behind the Border Crisis. In April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, there were 178,622 apprehensions at the Southwest border region, with 17,171 unaccompanied children intercepted. The number of migrant children at border facilities (what the media called “kids in cages” under Trump) has doubled in the past two months. But while the situation on the border is getting worse, the media’s coverage of it has dropped 61%. Further, NewsBusters noted, Biden and his policies “were completely shielded from blame in a majority (48) of the 88 stories aired during these two months.”

If Trump were still president, we’d be subjected to round-the-clock coverage blaming him for each of these issues, with daily op-eds in major publications doing the same and suggesting someone from the administration be fired. The coverage would look less like news and more like tabloid gossip, with every response parsed to death and all intent deemed negative. As it stands, that kind of media coverage is reserved for Republican leadership battles.

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True, but there wouldn't be any crises if Trump were president.

Quote:Joe Biden’s presidency is spiraling out of control. By any reasonable metric he has failed as a commander in chief. He has failed on immigration, he has failed on the economy, he has failed to create jobs, he has failed on foreign policy, he has failed on handling the pandemic, he has failed to unite the country, and he has failed as a leader. But that’s not what the mainstream media would have us believe.

On Thursday the Washington Post, the outlet that decided 100 days into Biden’s presidency that it would no longer fact-check him, published an article titled, “ ‘Better days are ahead’: Maskless Biden marks milestone in virus battle.” On Friday the New York Times ran an article titled, “Beneath Joe Biden’s Folksy Demeanor, a Short Fuse and an Obsession With Details.” And on Saturday, USA Today published an article titled “Joe Biden has proven an elusive target for Republicans. With the Cheney fight over, their focus is back on the president.” All these articles find ways to excuse and deflect attention from the crises Biden has ignored, worsened, and even created in his first four months in office.

But all is not quiet on the Western front in the Biden White House, despite what the administration and the media tell you.

In April, 178,622 migrants entered our country illegally, marking a 3 percent increase over the 172,000 who broke the law in March, the highest number in 20 years. But don’t worry; Biden in his own words has “now gotten control” of the situation, and there’s still no reason for Vice President Kamala Harris to visit the border.

And although there are currently 8.1 million job openings in the U.S., we somehow only managed to add 266,000 jobs in April, or nearly three-quarters of a million less than the one million that Wall Street economists were projecting. This after the March job numbers were already revised down another 140,000. Might it have something to do with Biden’s insistence that Americans receive a $300 weekly bonus check to stay home? Even those making $32,000 a year would see a raise by going on unemployment.

To make matters worse, last Wednesday, it was revealed that the Consumer Price Index rose 4.2 percent from a year ago, the biggest yearly jump since late 2008. But don’t worry; inflation is not really a big deal for the middle class. Biden insists that “There’s more evidence that our economy is moving in the right direction.”

As if that was not bad enough, a Russian cyberattack on a U.S. pipeline that provides gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel to nearly half of the East Coast was recently forced to turn off its spigot, resulting in a gas shortage, long waits at the pump, and soaring fuel prices. Last Wednesday, 74 percent of North Carolina’s stations ran out of gas, and the price of gas spiked by 12 cents in Kentucky. Colonial Pipeline, the company that was targeted, then paid the hackers a $5 million ransom. But don’t worry; it was a “private sector decision,” as Biden’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber & Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger said last week.

And all of this is just on the home front. Last week, after four years of relative peace in the Middle East under former President Trump, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas fired more than 3,100 rockets targeting Israeli urban civilian centers, schools, and Ben Gurion Airport. But Biden, who has restored Palestinian funding that is used to pay for Hamas’s terrorist operations, still wants to cut a deal with the leading state sponsors of terrorism in Iran. After Israel was attacked, Biden mostly stayed silent while delivering a hollow and ineffective call for peace. He refused to overtly condemn the actions by the Palestinian terrorists or strongly side with Israel, before eventually saying that “Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory.” You don’t say.

Last week’s news cycle was so bad for the Biden administration that the public health bureaucracy even sided against it. Based on no new scientific information, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided on Thursday that those who are fully vaccinated can now safely walk around outside and inside (in many cases) without a mask. This comes after the fully vaccinated Biden has been parading around the White House and on Zoom calls with a mask on for weeks, telling everyone that even after they have been fully vaccinated, they must continue to do so.

Perhaps Biden’s indecision on mask-wearing was due to what the Times described as his sagacity and meticulousness: “Before making up his mind, the president demands hours of detail-laden debate from scores of policy experts, taking everyone around him on what some in the West Wing refer to as his Socratic ‘journey’ before arriving at a conclusion.”

But here’s a “Socratic” question: why does virtually every statement that comes out of the Biden administration bear zero resemblance to reality? Perhaps it doesn’t need to when the media goes into full spin mode to cover for Biden’s failures.

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I demand to know why Joe did not tell everyone there was not a gas shortage only a delivery shortage, not to worry this was a temporary problem. Gas stations ran out of gas due to JOE BIDEN'S poor handling of the situation. Gas prices have spiked due to JOE BIDEN'S poor handling of the situation. People who ran out of gas lay at the feet of JOE BIDEN PERSONALLY! People who are now paying $0.75 more per gallon then they were only 2 months ago lay at the feet of JOE BIDEN PERSONALLY!


Sound familiar?