Liberal Media Scream: Nothing’s Biden’s fault

Long gone are the Truman days, when the buck stopped at the Oval Office.

Oddly, it was a Clinton-era adviser this weekend who led the “don’t blame Biden” brigade. On his show, George Stephanopoulos looked past Biden when talking about border woes and inflation.

“When it comes to inflation, there’s not much the president can do about it,” said the former communications aide to Bill Clinton.

From the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: When it comes to inflation, there’s not much the president can do about it.

MARIA ELENA SALINAS, ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: There’s not much that he can do about it, but at the same time, people’s perception, and that’s what’s important. They look at the numbers, and it doesn’t matter that we have low unemployment, it doesn’t matter that the gas prices are beginning to go down a little bit. The perception is things are more expensive, and when I go to the market, everything is more expensive, even if it does start to get a little bit better. That’s the feeling that people have, and that’s what motivates people to go out and vote sometimes. Not necessarily fact, but the perception, what they’re feeling.

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STEPHANOPOULOS: Is this a wedge issue that cuts against Democrats?

SALINAS: I think it definitely does. Now that you mentioned Title 42, what comes to mind to me is that it really depends on who’s talking. Of course, Republicans are going to say President Biden is opening up the border. But then critics are going to say it’s too little too late. Why didn’t he do this before? Remember, this is a health initiative. It’s not an immigration policy that was implemented, so if the CDC is already allowing kids to go back to school, people going back to baseball games and football games, why do they continue to have this at the border when they forced these people to put up these camps, when the “stay in Mexico” policy, why are they not allowing them in before? So, you’re between a rock and a hard place. It’s really difficult for the administration. It’s like you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.

Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “Poor, poor Biden. After enacting policies that caused the problems (on inflation, massive new government spending and hampering domestic energy production; on the border, stopping the building of Trump’s wall and allowing illegal immigrants to pass into the United States while awaiting asylum decisions), he’s now helpless to solve the problems he’s exacerbated. How about he reverse his policies? This media spin is reminiscent of the hapless Carter years, when the media painted the presidency as overwhelmed until Reagan proved the problem wasn’t the office but who was in it.”

Rating: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.