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The media are giving President Joe Biden a free pass on the East Coast fuel crisis, refraining from criticizing the White House amid widespread gas shortages and skyrocketing prices.
However, as Newbusters’s Geoffrey Dickens notes, the press has not always gone so easy on U.S. presidents during fuel crises.
In fact, when prices skyrocketed between 2005 and 2006, news anchors and reporters blamed the Bush administration, and capitalism specifically, for the problem.
“Across the nation, gas prices went to record highs today,” CBS News’s John Blackstone said in 2005. “Will it get to the point that only the privileged can afford gas?”