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The week in whoppers: Biden gaslights on the border, The NY Times smears Israel and more

By
Post Editorial Board
Published April 11, 2024, 5:47 p.m. ET
President Biden claimed that he legally may not be able to use an executive order to tighten to southern border.
President Biden claimed that he legally may not be able to use an executive order to tighten the southern border. NY Post composite / istock/ Gett

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions

This boast:

“Inflation today is about 40% of what it was when Joe Biden took office. . . . Inflation rates are down.”

— Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Wednesday on MSNBC

We say: Oops! No sooner did Clyburn call for fighting “disinformation” (while himself spewing disinfo about inflation) than the network — left-wing MSNBC — broke in to report reality.

Inflation in March actually shot up to 3.5%. And it’s risen for three straight months. Meanwhile, it was just 1.4% in January 2021.

So it’s now more than double “what it was when Joe Biden took office,” not “40%” of that number.  

This remark:

“Some have suggested that I should just go ahead and try it. And if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court.”

— President Biden, in an interview that aired Tuesday

We say: Biden says he’s eyeing an executive order to tighten the border but pretends such a move is legally debatable.

Please: The law makes crystal clear he has the power to issue such an order, and he knows it.

President Donald Trump successfully issued several. Biden’s only considering the move now because he fears losing votes.

And he pretends the law’s unclear because he needs an excuse for why he hasn’t acted for three whole years. 

This story:

“Israel’s Review of Aid Attack Raises Doubts”

— NY Times, Tuesday

We say: The Gray Lady’s malicious headline suggests “Israel’s review” of its accidental killing of aid workers last week is fake.

Its story doesn’t go quite that far but does claim Israel could be violating “international law” in Gaza, based on the views of just two “experts.”

We get it: The paper’s desperate to find something to smear the Jewish state with.

But if it truly cares about war crimes, why not examine the legality of what happened on Oct. 7, when Hamas targeted civilians — savagely raping, killing and kidnapping them with abandon?

This astronomy lesson:

“A full moon . . . is made up mostly of gases.”

— Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Tuesday

We say: Yikes! Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese.

Compiled by The Post Editorial Board