Posted on 09/05/2019 11:18:57 AM PDT by Signalman
It’s got to be good to be a Democrat. Once you get over the “always being wrong” part, you can take comfort in the fact that the media will do all it can to cover for your failures. They’ll ignore your problems. Hell, they’ll even lie on your behalf. It has to be nice.
That instinct to protect Democrats is about all that’s keeping Joe Biden’s fading hopes of winning the Democratic Party’s nomination alive.
It’s not that the Democratic Party is in love with the former vice president. They know they have a campaigning disaster on their hands who is unburdened by reality and willing to say anything to get elected but they also know he has the highest name ID and is the most electable in the general election.
The best thing Joe Biden has going for him is he’s affable, a goofy kind of guy people like personally, no matter what craziness comes out of his mouth. The worst thing he has going for him is the seemingly unbreakable string of craziness that comes out of his mouth.
In 2012, I wrote about Biden’s long, storied history of absurdity and lies. “He could say something absurd, such as “I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect.” Then he could rattle off a list of academic scholarships he earned, how he didn’t really care his first year of law school but then started to and graduated in the top half of his class, etc. Only it’s all a lie. He eventually has to admit it was all a lie. His scholarship was based on need, not academics, he didn’t graduate in the top half of his class – he was 76th out of 85…”
Given this history, it’s worth noting that he’s not being called a “liar” by anyone in the legacy media.
The Washington Post has made a cottage industry out of “counting Trump’s lies.” The meticulously “fact-check” everything he’s said, compiling them in a database. Journalists and TV personalities cite this list as proof that “Trump is different from other politicians” based on the volume of “lies.”
What constitutes a fact-check worthy lie, according to the Post? When the president said, “The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Administration allowed bad MS-13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!”
What did the Post write in declaring this “false or misleading”? Their “fact-check” reads, “The MS-13 gang far predates Obama, and has been active since the 1980s. According to the Congressional Research Service in 2005 and 2008, the gang had spread across the country since the 1980s. Moreover, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump has been arresting an increasing number of noncriminals, indicating that it's not just the gang members that are being targeted by his administration.”
Absolutely nothing in what President Trump said is false or misleading. That MS-13 predated Obama is irrelevant to what he said, as is the year they came into being. And “noncriminal” illegal aliens is an oxymoron.
So how did the Post treat Biden when he told an incredibly offensive, stolen valor-by-proxy lie about him awarding a medal to a soldier in an active war zone who didn’t feel he deserved it? They reported, “In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.”
But did they use the word “lie”? Nope. Not in the headline, which said “Biden tells a moving but false war story,” and nowhere in the piece. He was just confused, mixing in pieces of other stories, putting himself at the center of an event he was not involved in.
Biden’s history is riddled with these sorts of “exaggerations,” yet somehow the “handsy” guy who sniffs women’s hair and gets a little too friendly with young women is given a pass.
At least the Post reported it, even if they painted Joe in the most favorable light possible. That fact, and not his lack of the grasp of them, should worry Biden the most. No candidate or news outlet wants to be the one to knock him out of the race. Don’t get me wrong, they want him gone, but they don’t want to be the one to do it. People like him. Years of friendly, PR-level press coverage has made an impression on Democratic voters. A campaign death-blow would rebound unfavorably on the person who lands it. So they’re going for the “death by a thousand cuts” approach, hoping he simply implodes.
Of course, the one person recklessly wielding the sharpest knife is Biden. It’s just a question of whether or not the media will honestly report about the deep cuts he regularly inflicts on himself.
Warts and all, Biden is still on top by a big margin.
What does this say about the rest of the candidates? And it’s not like they haven’t had a couple of years to beat the bushes and get people to run.
Who is out in Democrat-land that might jump in if Biden quits?
As bad as the above examples are, his latest gaffes showing his memory is really faulty and the burst blood vessel in his eye as well as the lack of stamina for campaigning all point to the conclusion that his mind and body are rapidly deteriorating.
Using liberal logic he is in the top half. Even though it's the bottom half.
It really just depends on how you view the half.
Biden is so bad even the media can’t carry him over the finish line. I think Warren emerges as the frontrunner.
Hey, it all “worked” for BJ’s wife a few years ago...
Hillary of course. Perhaps Mrs. Obama
As long as Big Media keeps telling us he’s way ahead of Trump, they have to keep propping him up on stage.
A thousand gaffs.
A thousand gropes.
A thousand BS utterances
A thousand public appearances
A thousand presences at sanity
And on, and on, and on ad nausium.
>Who is out in Democrat-land that might jump in if Biden quits?<
Big Mike?
Fractions and percentages and the rest of math is just a legacy of white male supremacy—the truly woke need not be concerned with such matters.
Hellary but she won’t jump until the last minute.
As long as she is breathing she will be trying; scheming, undermining, bribing, cajoling & threatening!
Heck Hellary actually looks moderate to conservative compared to the current crowd!
“he’s affable, a goofy kind of guy people like”
That’s only his public face. I wager that privately he’s quite different.
The Dems appear to be reconciling themselves to the fact that they're going to be running a Bolshevik this time around because what other choice do they have? Joe will last until his poll numbers begin to fade a little more and then they'll drop him like a wad of used toilet paper.
Ol Red Eye Joe.
I hear the media are attempting to suppress any coverage of Biden’s bloody eye last night. I also saw a clip where, once again, Biden voluntarily stopped his answer announcing that his time was up.
“That boy is not right.”
LOL, so true.
Serial liars aren't. Cyclops driving the Clown Car. The state of politics in the republic at this time is not encouraging.
Traditionally the ‘clown’ is the diversion while the stage props are being replaced
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