Over halfway through last night’s NBC News broadcast, Lester Holt announced that the American economy had grown over 5 percent in real terms last year–the highest rate since 1984. This, apparently, was a piece of throwaway news–an afterthought.
Mind you, this is NBC, not Fox. Stories about how we’re growing rapidly and living in more comfort than before don’t fit the prevailing Biden is a bozo and the Democrats are in disarray narratives, so they get little publicity, and Biden is subsequently blamed for being a bad salesman for his very real accomplishments. There hasn’t even been an attempt by the MSM to explain that the inflation we’re all bitching about is the result of a combination of Biden’s success in delivering that additional comfort and security and supply chain problems over which he has little or no control.
It’s very disheartening. One can only hope that the MSM are only driving down expectations, and plan to start a “comeback kid” narrative sometime later this year when inflation eases. My fear, of course, is we actually will get a new helping of false equivalence: sure, the GOP is the party of culture wars and violent insurrection, but the Democrats brought us inflation resulting from high growth, so what’s the difference?