The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Fact-Check: Misleading

“The average gas price right now is cheaper than this time last year.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (2023: $3.65. 2024: $3.62. That would be three cents. By the way, January 20, 2021: $2.39.)

The BIG Lies

“People are doing better. I could go on, but I’m not going to. I’m going to resist the temptation. Because, boy, I’m tempted these days.” —Joe Biden

“The Biden-Harris administration is committed to maintaining a stable and secure energy supply and lowering prices for Americans.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Non Compos Mentis

“Instead of importin’ foreign products, I’m exporting fedurhhahh products.” —Joe Biden

Useful Idiot

“Our country isn’t just complicit in this genocide — we’re actively participating in it. [M]y colleagues want to vote to send over $26B more of our tax dollars to Netanyahu as he carries out the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.” —Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)

Shot/Chaser

“When [Biden] says, ‘Don’t escalate,’ he’s going to act to make sure that you can’t. And [Iran] didn’t.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

“Yes, [Iran] fired an unprecedented amount of munitions.” —John Kirby

For the Record

“Iran has attacked U.S. and Israeli diplomatic posts off-and-on for decades, most recently in 2023, when Iran helped plan an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. For this reason and several others, Iran’s justification for sending 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles into Israel on the grounds that Israel had bombed an Iranian diplomatic post is completely ridiculous.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“Under the Obama-Biden foreign policy doctrine, an Iran so emboldened that it feels free to wage offensive war against Israel in such brazen fashion is not a bug — it’s a feature.” —Josh Hammer

“Every conflict against Israel unfurls the same way: Its enemies threaten or attack the country. Israel responds and heads for a victory. Only then does the world demand ‘restraint.’ Finally, the antagonists demand Israel rewind history to a more convenient spot.” —David Harsanyi

“When I hear a bunch of American college kids and adults who should know better chanting ‘Death to America,’ I take it personally. What they’re really saying is, ‘Death to me and you.’ I’m an American. You’re an American. We’re all Americans — or used to be.” —Michael Reagan

“Iran, college students, Nazis, and former Google employees are all united in being really upset when Jews don’t just stand there and let people murder them.” —Frank J. Fleming