There was a great deal of disinformation to comb through—not to mention repeated gaffes and garbled speech—in the 7,900 or so words of President Biden’s hour-long State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday evening. Whether it was the far-fetched notion that his administration over a course of months had “prepared extensively and carefully” for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine; his giving the false impression that releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve will mean sustained relief for consumers from rising gasoline prices; his assertion that “my top priority is getting prices under control” and that a “tax credit to weatherize your home” paired with the subsidizing of solar, wind, and electric cars will be the solution to the worst inflation in four decades; plus lots more—Biden gave media fact checkers a lot of work. Less noticed, however, was the president’s regurgitation of a …
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