People vote on bread and guns, i.e.- the economy and national security. On both counts Joe Biden is found wanting. But economic issues like gas prices touch many voters every day. They won’t forget in November, no matter what the media tries. Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center clarifies.

Reminder: The U.S. is sitting on roughly a third of a TRILLION barrels of oil and about 3,000 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas … so we should probably get at that if we want to see prices drop…………and decades in reserves sitting in storage for emergency use, so……..

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) March 11, 2022

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Gainor: Record inflation plus record high gas prices equals media spin. That’s the equation journalists are using as they cover for the Biden administration’s self-inflicted economic problems.

This isn’t math. It’s political science. The media are looking at an election wipeout for Democrats in November and doing everything they can to cover for President Joe Biden and his inept administration.

The New York Times almost got behind the press room podium to fill in for Press Secretary Jen Psaki. “Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices.” The paper pointed the finger at the pandemic for supply disruptions, not the Biden administration’s open war on American energy.

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CNN declared, “Gas prices are in the danger zone. Biden can’t do much about it.” The network that allegedly wants to tack more toward the center isn’t showing it. “Why record-high gas prices won’t be solved by drilling more oil in the US,” it wrote, defying the concept of supply and demand. That was also the Biden line when asked about gas prices. “Can’t do much right now. Russia is responsible.”

In an ironically phrased defense of the president, CNN anchor Ana Cabrera tried to say the price spike wasn’t about American output. She vowed to get rid of the “misinformation going around about who or what is responsible” for the price spike in gasoline. “For the last couple of years, the United States has been the world’s top oil producer.” Turns out, the president was defending was Biden’s predecessor — the one who set all that in motion. Quartz tried its own subtle spin: “Don’t blame Biden for high gas prices.”

That’s been the press’s strategy the entire time Biden has been in office. PolitiFact defended the administration over gas prices a year ago, pretending Biden’s canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline made no difference because “the pipeline wasn’t operating yet.” Forget the threat of the Green New Deal making companies not want to invest in equipment they won’t be able to use later.

Let’s not forget the collective thrill up the media’s legs when Biden released oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve last year. And the price dropped a bit. He even took credit for it. So, I guess he can impact the price sometimes.

CNN was ecstatic. Business senior writer Julia Horowitz praised Biden and … China: “Oil prices are finally falling. Thank China and Joe Biden.” Anchor Don Lemon called it “big economic relief for millions of Americans” and asked, “Can we just celebrate the good news for a minute?”

PolitiFact was back for another factcheck in November when Biden released the oil. This time it admitted, “the year-over-year rise in the price of gasoline is larger than any the country has seen in at least three decades, and experts say that consumers are right to be concerned.” The time period for that spike began right after Biden’s election. It had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.

This piece was written by David Kamioner on March 13, 2022. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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