While We Were Away

Welcome back. I’ll be back on the radio today at noon Eastern time.

While we were away, the news kept getting worse for Joe Biden. A massive majority of Americans do not want him to run again. Bidenomics has failed miserably, and embracing the phrase has always been stupid.

The media is still lecturing Americans that they should be grateful for Biden’s economy. The terrorist publication Washington Post actually had a piece over the weekend claiming social media is making people think the economy is bad. Journalists and the elite of America are increasingly inclined to blame social media for all the bad things, and it is a bad thing if you don’t think Joe Biden is doing a wonderful job and deserves re-election.

The reality is that anyone who paid for groceries or gas for Thanksgiving understands that there are problems at the consumer level with the economy. I do wonder when we will start talking about the psychological barrier of $3 a gallon of gas.

Gas is always more expensive in places like New York and California, where the states add so many extra taxes. But in swing states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, gas over $3.00 a gallon is a fixture of Bidenomics that did not exist before Joe Biden became President.

The Republican solution is to drill more and produce more. The Democrat solution is to push you to buy a new car. That sums up the divide. Democrats think it is great that gas is not at $5.00 a gallon like it was for part of 2022 in much of the country. But most people remember gas below $3.00 a gallon when Trump was President.

Every time you fill up your car, you remember what life was like before Biden.

Democrats may get fired up about abortion headed into next year. But will swing voters really get fired up about threats to democracy when Democrats are also telling them they’re stupid for not being grateful for cheap gas and groceries that are actually more expensive now than four years ago?

Concurrently, Hamas has released a group of hostages, and much of the media fawned over Hamas doing so. If you want to see real evil, the press coverage of Hamas’s hostage release has been evil.

One reporter from CNN played up a released Hamas prisoner who will be returned to Gaza. The report dripped with victimization for the poor prisoner now released. You’d never have known from the CNN reporter that the Hamas prisoner was in prison for trying to kill a bunch of Jews.

The New York Times highlighted another Hamas prisoner, described as badly burned. They left out she was badly burned because she tried unsuccessfully to blow herself up and kill a bunch of Jews.

Worst was MSNBC, which positively fawned over Hamas's release of Israeli citizens. Wasn’t it so kind of Hamas to take such good care of those hostages?

To be very clear here, Hamas is no hero for releasing hostages. They are monsters for having taken those hostages while killing others.

Here’s something I have noticed in American journalism. The very people who complain about “both-sideism” in reporting on American politics — the idea that Republicans should be treated as morally equal to Democrats and Republican views as legitimate and on par with Democrats — go out of their way to both sides the situation in Israel. Hamas and Israel are treated as equivalent.

The worst offender of all in American journalism is the Washington Post, which, at this point, is just an extension of Hamas. When Israel finally does go aggressively after Hamas, they should remember WaPo has become Hamas’s American mouthpiece. The whole institution needs to be rebooted. Jeff Bezos bought an iconic American institution and handed it over to terrorist sympathizers. Its Editor literally pulled a cartoon critical of Hamas because employees complained. Democracy may die in darkness, but journalism itself dies in bed with terrorists.