The Biden-Media
Autopsy
Several indicators suggest that the Democrat Party,
following President Donald Trump’s dramatic and undisputed assent to the
presidency, is slowly emerging from a monkish political seclusion.
Months after the election decks had been cleared, Democrat strategist
Sawyer Hackett let loose, according to an Associated Press (AP) report reprinted
in the Hartford Courant, with the following thunderbolt: “The stench of [former
President] Joe Biden still lingers on the Democrat Party. We have to do the
hard work fixing that, and I think that includes telling the truth, frankly,
about when we were wrong.”
AP noted in its story, “Biden: Dem’s Unwanted Distraction,”
that a “core controversy… has emerged following the publication of Original Sin, a book written by
journalists Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thomson of Axios. The book “questions
Biden’s decision to run for a second term despite voters, including Democrats,
telling pollsters that he should not.”
Not only Biden, but prominent journalists as well, appeared
during this period to have had wax in their ears. Some would argue that Tapper
– and certainly Joe Scarborough of “Morning Joe” – was among the journalists
who were hiding the real Biden beneath layers of Democrat Party propaganda.
When Scarborough pronounced Biden “sharp as a tack’ so soon after his
disastrous debate with presidential aspirant Trump, few Democrats laughed.
Like Christian love, party propaganda covers a multitude of
sins. The question of the day is not “Did leading Democrats know that Biden was
unfit for office? but rather – “When did they know Biden was unfit for office?”
And, now that we are all moving forward, do successful political and media
deceptions of this kind matter? Now that the horse has escaped the burning
barn, why does it matter any longer who the arsonists were?
“Former ‘Meet the Press’ moderator and NBC News analyst Chuck Todd,” we are told by The
Hill, “knocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for dodging a
question about former President Biden’s mental acuity ahead of the 2024
election.
“‘He is among the people that are responsible for this,’
Todd said during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday.”
Even Connecticut U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, a bitter
opponent of Trump and every neo-progressive’s ideal neo-progressive, apparently
has come on board, very tardily and, as usual, for the wrong reasons.
“Ultimately, in retrospect,” Murphy confided to “Meet the Press” host Kristen
Welker, “you can’t defend what the Democratic Party did because we
are stuck with a madman — with a corrupt president in the Oval
Office — and we should have given ourselves a better chance to win [emphasis
mine].”
“By 2024, the American people had decided that they wanted
somebody new,” Murphy told Welker. “They wanted somebody younger. And it was a
mistake. It was a mistake for Democrats to not listen to the voters earlier and
set up a process that would have gotten us in a position where we could have
been more competitive that fall.” There were no early warning signals from Murphy,
and Biden was clumsily replaced by a younger
Democrat presidential candidate, the hapless Vice President Kamala Harris.
Incidentally, Trump has reduced illegal and unvetted border
jumping by 97%, rearranged cordial and productive relationships between the
United States and Middle Eastern Arab countries, vowed to help Israel eliminate
Iran supported terrorist organizations that bar an enduring peace in war
ravaged Gaza -- and he has arranged with all the states in the nation a much
reduced regulatory regime that eliminates unnecessary red tape for state
building projects. His widely praised “Get America Building Again” has
been warmly received by many Democrat leaders in Connecticut, including
Governor Ned Lamont – but not Murphy, who appears to be locked into a permanent
campaign opposition.
Perhaps the coup de
grace was the recent release by Axios of the audio of Biden’s interview
with Special Counsel Robert Hur, who declined to prosecute Biden for having
acquired illegal top secret documentation when he was a senator. Hur said he
doubted a jury would bring forward a guilty verdict against a man who was
evidently incapacitated but who, despite his infirmities, would be regarded as “a
sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
The audio interview and Biden’s performance during the
Biden/Trump debate is conclusive. After the audio release, the Biden apologists
retreated to their overcrowded closets, forcing Democrats to retreat to their
default position: All this is old news; let’s move on, Schumer and others
urged. Even the most committed partisan Democrat politician knows that it is
fruitless to defend the indefensible.
The past, William Faulkner once observed, is never over
because the past continues to haunt the present and the future as an active
participant in human affairs. Not to admit it into policy decisions is a form
of intellectual and national political suicide.
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