BIDEN HABITUALLY EXAGGERATES OR LIES WHEN QUESTIONED BY THE MEDIA

Joe Biden versus the numbers doesn’t go so well 

 

By Grace Curley

 

Boston Herald

December 11, 2021

 

 

 

 

 U.S. President Joe Biden looks at the number of U.S. deaths due to COVID-19, written on the back of his schedule, as he speaks during Independence Day celebrations on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., July 4, 2021

 

President Biden is a numbers guy.

In a 2020 debate, Biden had no issue blaming then-President Trump for the COVID-19 deaths of 220,000 Americans.

“Two hundred and twenty thousand Americans dead,” he said. “If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this. Anyone who’s responsible for not taking control — in fact, not saying, I take no responsibility, initially — anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America.”

 Not all of Biden’s go-to numbers are this ghoulish, though.

 

 In July, he regaled the Los Angeles Dodgers about how he once hit a ball 368 feet during a congressional baseball game in the 1970s. As always, riveting stuff from the commander-in-chief.

 

On Wednesday, Biden told his favorite story for the SIXTH time this year. The anecdote, which somehow becomes more painful with each retelling, focuses on Joe’s love of Amtrak. According to Joe, a since-deceased conductor named Angelo Negri once told him how many miles he had ridden on the Wilmington-Union Station route.

“Thirty-six years, 119 days a year back and forth, then as vice president we figure you’ve done X number of trips and that adds up to 1,200,000 miles on Amtrak.”

The number of miles Joe Biden logged on Amtrak depends on which of the six stories you happen to have had the pleasure of hearing. Sometimes it is 1,200,000 miles, other times it increases to 1,350,000 or 1,400,000. Once it even hit 1,700,000.

President Trump is often criticized for his arrogance, but at least he brags about actual accomplishments. I’d take a president who boasts about record-low Black unemployment rates over a president who boasts about how often he used to ride the train.

Still, Biden can’t help himself — he loves those numbers. Maybe he thinks they add some credibility to these obscure stories he insists on sharing over and over again.

Unfortunately for “Amtrak Joe,” the latest numbers aren’t so fun.

Since his inauguration in January, Biden’s own COVID-19 death count has surpassed 350,000.

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation spiked to 6.8% last month, which is a 39-year high — with the dubious distinction of tops since the nation was recovering from its Jimmy Carter stagflation hangover.

Another dismal number for Biden? His approval rating. According to poll tracker 538, only 43% of Americans approve of the president’s performance.

Here’s another jarring number: As of Nov. 30, the president has only sat down for 18 interviews.

The New York Post’s Steven Nelson put Biden’s lack of accessibility into perspective: “Even Ronald Reagan, who was shot in the lung by a would-be assassin shortly after taking office, more than doubled Biden’s first-year interviews, giving 46 by the same point in his presidency.”

So what exactly is Joe Biden’s excuse? First lady Jill Biden — the doctor is in the house! — recently told CBS News that her husband works “almost 24 hours a day.”

Surely he can spare one of those 24 hours and answer some questions from the media, right?

After all, Joe has enough time to make cringeworthy videos with Bill Nye the Science Guy.

He had enough time to spend five days celebrating Thanksgiving at a billionaire hedge-funder’s property on Nantucket with his family.

He has enough time to light Christmas trees with LL Cool J, whose buff body he swooned over.

He has enough time to enjoy standing ovations from Bette Midler and David Letterman at the Kennedy Center Honors.

Most recently, he managed to find enough time to chitchat with NBC’s late-night host Jimmy Fallon.

Even in this cushy virtual interview, Biden managed to bungle the softball questions.

“Well, look, here’s the deal. I think that it’s, um, we been in less than a year. Um, a lot has happened and look, people are afraid. People are worried and people are getting so much inaccurate information to them. I don’t mean about me, but about this, their situation. And, and, and so they’re, you know, they, they, they’re being told that, you know, Armageddon is on the way.”

The interview was a joke — it just wasn’t funny. Luckily, humorless bits are right in Jimmy Fallon’s wheelhouse.

Meanwhile, the journalists who slobbered over Biden during his basement-dwelling campaign last year are now getting no reciprocal love from their ice-cream-eating, aviator-shades-wearing hero. Even so, these hacks have continued to sugarcoat Biden’s failures every step of the way.

What do they get in return for their pathetic loyalty? They get accused of being too hard on Joe Biden. Oh, and they also are rewarded with plummeting ratings!

Last week, CNN’s Reliable Sources revealed that the White House has been meeting with news organizations to help them “reshape” their coverage of Biden’s economy.

Apparently the White House did not feel confident enough in those “briefings” to throw the media a bone and grant them some one-on-one access to dear old Joe.

What the Biden administration doesn’t seem to realize is that their propaganda campaign can no longer save this sleepy sinking ship.

Joe can continue to make TikToks and Skype in to late night TV shows nobody watches anymore. The trained seals in Jimmy Fallon’s audience can clap until their paws fall off and it won’t change a damn thing.

See, the numbers tell the real story, even if the media won’t.

And unlike our president, the numbers don’t lie.

No matter how much Joe might want them to.