On Thursday afternoon’s episode of Fox News Channel’s The Five, co-hosts Judge Jeanine Pirro and Greg Gutfeld ripped into the leftist media for parroting the Biden administration’s propaganda which falsely blames Russian President Vladimir Putin for the increase in gas prices. Despite the fact that gas prices have risen every month since Biden took office
After playing a montage of left-wing media pundits and “journalists” regurgitating the White House’s lines on rising energy and food prices, Pirro remarked that “if ever there were a question as to whether or not the mainstream media is the trumpet for the left and for the Biden administration, you just saw it.”
“Everything that Biden says, they say. The reason gas prices are going up is because of Ukraine. It's all about the war. But Americans aren't that stupid, Greg, are the,” Pirro asked referring to Gutfeld in her questions directed to him.
Gutfeld pointed out the hypocrisy of the leftists in the media and in government who support banning fossil fuels while simultaneously bemoaning the increase in prices of gas:
They're trying to ban domestic drilling as they say its a Putin price hike. That’s like kicking somebody in the head and blaming it on the donkey down the road. No, the price hike is a consequence of Bidenflation. How do you know that? Cause oil isn't the only thing going up. Baby food, bacon, furniture, bedding, watches, jewelry. That’s all going up. If it was just gas you could say that maybe become of this, that, and the other.
Gutfeld continued ripping into the media and environmental activist’s hypocrisy by noting “the weirdest contradiction is that the Dems are blaming Putin for gas inflation but they already wanted it to go up. Shouldn't they be thanking him for helping reduce our carbon emissions?”
Pirro and Gutleld are not wrong. As MRC founder and President Brent Bozell pointed out during a Thursday morning appearance on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co., the media are indeed blaming Russia for the high gas prices instead of Biden: “Since the war began, we’ve looked at NBC so far, trying to see who they blame for skyrocketing gas. Since the war began, they’ve blamed the Russians 16 times, the pandemic seven times, and Joe Biden once” Bozell said.
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FNC’s The Five
3/17/2022
5:17:44 p.m. EasternJEANINE PIRRO: If ever there were a question as to whether or not the mainstream media is the trumpet for the left and for the Biden administration, you just saw it. Everything that Biden says, they say. The reason gas prices are going up is because of Ukraine. It's all about the war. But Americans aren't that stupid, Greg, are they? they put gas in their tanks, they know what they paid before the war.
GREG GUTFELD: They're trying to ban domestic drilling as they say its a Putin price hike. That’s like kicking somebody in the head and blaming it on the donkey down the road. No, the price hike is a consequence of Bidenflation. How do you know that? Cause oil isn't the only thing going up. Baby food, bacon, furniture, bedding, watches, jewelry. That’s all going up. If it was just gas you could say that maybe become of this, that, and the other.
No, it's all of these things. But the weirdest contradiction is that the Dems are blaming Putin for gas inflation but they already wanted it to go up. Shouldn't they be thanking him for helping reduce our carbon emissions? Because after all, it was Russia who infiltrated the green groups to get us off our domestic oil and buy their foreign oil. It was the radical green agenda that to get us off of our domestic oil and buy their foreign oil it was the radical green agenda that ended up working for Putin. They were Putin's puppet the whole time. All those celebrities that were telling us how bad fracking was and how bad the pipelines were, they were being funded by Russia. It's amazing!
