by Joseph Vazquez
The New York Times beclowned itself by twisting the results from its own poll to suppress the reality that Americans are frustrated with President Joe Biden largely because his economy stinks.
The latest Times/Sienna poll of 1,016 registered voters, dated Dec. 19, showed that the overall economy and “inflation and the cost of living” took the top spots as the “[m]ost important problem[s]” facing the country today, accounting for 20 and 14 percent of respondents, respectively (34 percent total). But that’s not what The Times chose to highlight in its write-up of the poll results: “Poll Finds Wide Disapproval of Biden on Gaza, and Little Room to Shift Gears.”
The Times used its lede paragraph to zero in on how younger voters were allegedly “far more critical than older voters of both Israel’s conduct and of the administration’s response to the war in Gaza.” Guess how many respondents picked “The Middle East/Israel/Palestinians” as the “most important problem” for the country today: One percent. That represents roughly less than a dozen respondents.
Yes, the newspaper took its own poll that was an indictment against Biden’s economic policies and made the central story largely about something else entirely.
Talk about trying to get readers to strain a gnat while cheerfully swallowing a camel. In fact, the only mention that the devastating economic poll numbers got at all were two pathetic sentences buried in the eighth paragraph, and The Times still attempted to spin it positively for Biden. “Economic concerns remain paramount, with 34 percent of registered voters listing economic- or inflation-related concerns as the top issue facing the country. That’s down from 45 percent in October 2022, but still high,” The Times twisted. That was it. That was all the economic numbers were worth to the leftist rag.
The Times’s decision to put the spotlight on younger voters’ distaste for Biden’s pro-Israel policy is also ludicrous in retrospect. National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty, who was the first to call out The Times for how it reported its poll, pointed out how “[a]mong voters ages 18 to 29, just 3 percent answered that the most important problem facing the country was ‘the Middle East/Israel/Palestinians.’” He continued: “The Times poll had 179 respondents in the demographic from 18 to 29, so that means about five or six people in the entire poll were considered young voters and prioritized the Middle East as the most important problem facing the country.” But The Times was sure to embellish how “[m]ost young voters, however, responded to question after question with answers showing that they see the worst in Israel.”
The New York Slimes has been fake news since 1932 and covering up for Stalin
Even though the economy is not spiraling out of control as rapidly as Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden had it spiraling, it’s still a fact that this economically illiterate moron took a strong, healthy economy and wrecked it with stupid policies and out of control spending. The fact that by punishing people that need to borrow money reduced the RATE inflation was increasing a bit doesn’t override the fact that everything is about 30% more expensive than under Trump.