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    Fake News MSNBC, WaPo, ABC figures warn voters against gas prices influencing their vote in November

    By Kristine Parks | Fox News




    After downplaying concerns about the economy in the last year, some media outlets are now panicking that high gas prices and inflation will tank Democrats in the midterm elections, with some pundits even scolding voters for making it a priority.

    Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell told readers that it was a "wild fantasy" to believe the GOP could lower gas prices, as she warned voters to "think carefully about what they’ll get if they cast their ballot based on gas prices," in a Sunday opinion piece.

    "The president does not have some super-secret special dial on his desk that can adjust gas prices, but many voters believe otherwise," she wrote.

    "They’re counting on voters to project their hopes and dreams — including their wildest fantasies about cheaper gas — onto Republican challengers," her analysis continued.

    But Rampell claimed that neither party had "serious" solutions to dealing with gas prices or inflation and there were "relatively few tools" that President Biden or Congress could use to "help boost oil production or moderate inflation." So, she advised voters to ignore the gas price problem at the voting booth.

    Quoting colleague E.J. Dionne, she cautioned that if Republicans win in November that could lead to "far more radical and sinister forces" trying to "undermine democracy."

    On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," branding guru Donny Deutsch fretted that pocketbook issues would win out with voters this year and in 2024 as more important to them than America's democracy being "in peril."

    "I'm concerned and everything in my gut tells me… unfortunately, the gas prices and bread is going to be more compelling," he said Thursday.

    Polling bears that out, with surveys consistently showing inflation is the most significant issue to Americans right now. A recent Fox News poll found 41 percent of voters say inflation will be an important factor in their midterm decisions, well above issues like guns (12 percent) and abortion (10 percent). Another poll from ABC News earlier this month found 71% of Americans disapprove of Biden on inflation.

    MSNBC host Joy Reid and political analyst Matthew Dowd characterized a red wave as a "threat" the media needed to warn voters against on Monday.

    "We have to tell the voters what the threat is just like we do, Joy, we tell them about inflation, and we tell them about job growth, and we tell them about a hurricane, and we tell them about tornadoes, and we tell them about wildfire, we have to treat this assault just like we have to tell them about the assault on democracy," Dowd said.



    Fellow MSNBC host Tiffany Cross took the same approach on her show Saturday, complaining that inflation was more of a concern for voters than the Jan. 6 committee hearings.

    "Come this November, will voters be more concerned with saving money than saving democracy?" the "Cross Connection" host asked.

    Cross griped that inflation and "high prices" dominated media coverage, which led Americans to be less interested in the "compelling testimonies and evidence" in the Jan. 6 committee hearings.



    "This constant storyline of inflation, and people are feeling it at the grocery store. So it is challenging when, come November, when it's time to cast a ballot," she began, adding that she wondered "how seriously" voters took the threat of Republicans winning in November.

    "The View" host Joy Behar absolved Biden of any responsibility for the energy crisis and said Republicans just wanted to make Biden "look bad."

    "And by the way, inflation is a worldwide problem, he's getting blamed for that. The gasoline is a worldwide problem, yes its $5, $6 here, it's like $11, $12 in Europe. So you cannot blame the president for every single thing," Behar continued on the June 6 show.

    Responding to the media defense of Biden, PRICE Futures Group senior market analyst Phil Flynn said Biden administration policies like drilling moratoriums and killing the Keystone Pipeline are driving down investment in oil and gas, hurting supply and raising prices.

    "I think out of every president in recent history, if you can blame a president for rising gasoline prices, President Biden owns this gasoline price hike," Flynn told Fox News Digital. "Why? Because every policy he has put into place has raised the cost of gasoline."



    Behar and her liberal peers also shot down the idea that a red wave was coming in November, largely as a result of voters blaming Democrats in power for high inflation. "You don't know that," she told co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin.

    Associate Professor of Business and Economics at The King’s College and Fox News contributor Brian Brenberg criticized the media’s messaging as "a desperate attempt to deal with a problem they know is going to be pinned" on Democrats.

    "By pleading with voters to not let inflation affect their vote, the media is essentially asking people to ‘please ignore everything that affects your life on a daily basis,’" he said, citing the high costs of groceries, travel, gas and electricity impacted by inflation and energy policies.

    The economics expert said media pundits who won't acknowledge that President Biden's anti-oil rhetoric and promises to end fossil fuels have negatively affected energy costs are engaging in a "willful denial of reality."

    Flynn said the media shouldn't be flippant about so-called "kitchen table issues."

    "America always votes their pocketbook," Flynn said. "At the end of the day, you know, what they disparagingly call kitchen table issues are real issues to American because it affects their daily lives. Listen, people elect leaders so their life improves, not so it can get worse… The American people are smart. They see this as a facade. They see, you know, the media trying to make excuses for this administration."

    Some liberal media outlets and Democrats have defended Biden energy policies and tried to sell the public in recent months that there was hope on the horizon for the economy.



    In December, CNN host Don Lemon and reporter Matt Egan hyped a government forecast that suggested gas prices would fall below $3 in 2022, touting how Americans were going to get "some relief" at the pump.

    Pundits moved on to minimizing voter concerns about the economy, Biden's energy policies and rampant federal spending, while parroting the White House's messaging that a "Putin price hike" was to blame for soaring inflation, in the spring.

    Brenberg said that polls showed voters weren't buying the media's messaging and had "made up their own minds" on who to blame for the country's economic woes.

    "The media should be holding the administration’s feet to the fire on that with data, not with an ideological agenda but on data, on the facts. They’re not doing that," he blasted.

    "So voters therefore have made up their own minds. They have determined what cause and effect is going on here, and you’re seeing that in the polls," he said.

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    The impartiality of the MSM

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    You may not like what your party is doing to your life, but for the love of gawd you need to support it, remember its get worse before it gets worse






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    Quote Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches View Post
    You may not like what your party is doing to your life, but for the love of gawd you need to support it, remember its get worse before it gets worse
    Just because the democrats control the White House and the House and the Senate and in less than 2 years they turned the country to shit, that doesn't mean you need to go out and vote for republicans

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    The impartiality of the MSM
    It certainly is great that we have unbiased news in this country.

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    Don't panic, guys. Now that crude is coming down, gasoline prices will follow


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    I might be wrong, but it think crude is 1.06 1.07 at the moment, the price hike in oil really cannot be explained away by Russian/Ukraine war now, it seems like utter profiteering in part by the various companies, we had another hideous boost in prices last week.
    To be fair, maybe its time we smashed vlad in the face, send the whole of the Eu and Nato armies into Ukraine, secure the worlds sunflower oil and grain and uranium mines, watch Vlad go blah blah blah Nukes, and then watch as they don't fire, /never launch/or he gets shot in the head by an aid.
    I doubt many/any of his nukes work, or that they wouldn't detonate his side of the border, also with all the armies in Ukraine, we could shoot the fuckers down before they got anywhere.
    Economy is going to be utter shite for 12-18 moths, so might as well take advantage and remove Russia from the overall 'world security' scene at the same time.

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    Lol. Why not

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    Wait until the price of food really skyrockets due to fuel costs.

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    feels like it already has

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    Quote Originally Posted by lost in melb. View Post
    Don't panic, guys. Now that crude is coming down, gasoline prices will follow

    It never comes down as fast as it goes up






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    unlike some things

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