Even CNN Had To Fact Check Biden’s Gas Pricing Lies During “She Was 12, I Was 30” Speech

The other day President Biden gave a speech to teachers. This is the same speech where he weirdly pointed out a woman in the crowd and said that he and the woman “go way back. She was 12, I was 30.” Yeah… that was weird.

Not only did he make that weirdly pedophilic comment, he made a couple of other mistakes. He said he went up against the “RNA” instead of the NRA, which the White House had to officially correct in the transcript of the speech. But he also falsely claimed,

“In 41 states plus the District of Columbia, the average gasoline price is less that $2.99.”

This is a complete lie. Not even close, really. It’s so false that even CNN felt obligated to correct him in an official “fact check,” saying,

“Facts First: Biden’s claim about average gasoline prices was false, as the White House acknowledged by correcting the official transcript after CNN inquired about the claim on Friday afternoon. In fact, zero states have an average price under $2.99 per gallon, figures from GasBuddy and the American Automobile Association show. As the correction notes, Biden got a key digit wrong: 41 states and the District of Columbia have an average price under $3.99, not $2.99.

Biden has correctly used the $3.99 figure in previous remarks, and it’s good when a White House is willing to correct inaccuracies. But the price of gas is one of the most important numbers in politics. Even if the President made an inadvertent error this time, his incorrect remark was televised live on CNN and MSNBC.

Think about that. Exactly ZERO states have an average price less than $2.99/gallon, and yet Biden is out here giving a speech that is being televised nationally and saying that 41 states plus D.C. all have average gas prices below $2.99, which is actually a HUGE political issue these days. I actually appreciate CNN’s acknowledgement that “the price of gas is one of the most important numbers in politics. Even if the President made an inadvertent error this time, his incorrect remark was televised live on CNN and MSNBC,” which means it is widely damaging, highly inappropriate, and required public correction.

Consider the fact that gas prices are a huge economic issue going into the midterms. Whether or not this was yet another honest mistake due to his dementia, there could now be voters who legitimately believe that the vast majority of the country has average gas prices below $2.99/gallon. The President said it in a nationally televised speech, after all. And that could impact how they vote, despite the fact that it isn’t even close to true.

Biden makes A LOT of “inadvertent” errors these days, doesn’t he? Every one of those “inadvertent errors” misleads the American public, especially considering that corrections NEVER get as much visibility as the incorrect information.