There is no denying that oil and gas prices have gone up since the start of the war in Iran. The national average has risen about one dollar in the last month, while crude oil has surpassed $100 a barrel for the first time in years. But as expected, the legacy media has gone beyond reporting on those facts into hyper negative coverage of gas prices and their impact on the economy. This is the same media that mostly ignored historically low gas prices over the past year, and gave far less critical coverage of the surge to all-time record high pump prices during the "Bidenflation" run-up in 2022.
Speaking to reporters at an event in Michigan this week, Vice President JD Vance noted that current gas price critics seem to have a short memory. "Under the Biden administration, the gas prices were high for four years," said Vance. "Gas prices are higher right now, and frankly they're not even as high as they were during certain parts of the Biden administration...it's not gonna last forever, we're gonna finish this and come back home, and when that happens you're going to see energy prices come back down to reality."
The current freak-out over gas prices is reminiscent of similar media panic attacks last year over egg prices and tariffs, which both ended up being overblown.
The latest Democrat criticisms also ring hollow, since they praised high gas prices in the past as a necessary step to get people out of gas-powered vehicles and off of fossil fuels. Now, apparently a lot of Dems are suddenly worried about the cost of filling up their gas-guzzling vehicle.
For Dems and the legacy media, this is just more of the same thing: Trump Derangement Syndrome. "After ten years of talking about this, I think we can come to one cold and incontrovertible fact---that if it's good for Trump and therefore good for the country, the legacy media will reflexively be against it," said Fox News Media Analyst Joe Concha on 'Hannity.' "It is the reflex for the press to greatly exaggerate the negative, while applying the bias of omission to the positive."
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