Posted on 11/09/2020 6:18:08 PM PST by ransomnote
In a revelation announced Monday by The New York Times, former Newsweek editor, liberal historian, and MSNBC/NBC contributor Jon Meacham has been writing speeches for former Vice President Joe Biden, including his Saturday night “victory speech.” Of course, Meacham and the Comcast-owned networks never disclosed this fact.
The lack of ethics wasn’t entirely surprising, given how Meacham both endorsed Biden during the campaign and spoke August 20 at the Democratic National Convention, and neither network seemed to care. And that’s in addition to the fact that their ethically-challenged ranks include Mike Barnicle, Joy Reid, and Brian Williams.
As per Annie Karni and John Koblin, Meacham has been helping Biden for some time (click “expand”):
Jon Meacham, the presidential historian and biographer, has been helping to craft President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s speeches, according to multiple sources involved, including helping to write the acceptance speech that Mr. Biden delivered Saturday night from Wilmington, Del.
In that address, Mr. Biden spoke of a mission “to rebuild the soul of America, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class and to make America respected around the world again.” Mr. Meacham’s 2018 book, “The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels,” has long served as a touchstone for Mr. Biden, who read it and has reached out to Mr. Meacham in the past to discuss passages he liked.
Mr. Biden’s speech-writing process is run by Mike Donilon, the president-elect’s longtime adviser. But behind the scenes, Mr. Meacham has been playing a larger role than was previously known, both writing drafts of speeches and offering edits on many of Mr. Biden’s big addresses, including one he gave at Gettysburg last month and his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August.
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A Biden official added that Mr. Meacham was involved in discussions about the themes in the victory speech.
Citing a source, The Times added that Meacham will continue to appear, but “will no longer be a paid contributor going forward.”
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Read stiffly by the erudite zombie
No bias there! If you right think and do it because orange man bad, well that’s OK.
Not a scandal. Contributors are all over the map, politically.
He’ll get a raise from soros.
Not a scandal. Contributors are all over the map, politically.
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Worked for the CO that called the election early, when the election is not over and they don’t decide who won it, and wrote the guy’s “victory” speech. I take issue....
Is there something inherently unethical about partisanship within media entities? Good luck policing that.
Fortunately for us, biden can neither speak nor read well.
True. Remember in ‘80 how George Will prsised Reagan’s performance in debate with Carter without telling anyone he had been an integral part of Reagan’s prep team. Of course he was an outlier then. Today it’s common practice.
No longer a paid contributor
So he may be back, just not paid for it
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Surprise...a Leftist with no ethics? Say it ain’t so
He should be ashamed to have his name associated with the bilge the Biden-bot has been trying to deliver.
Ithink America is more respected around the world under PT. He has given a voice to millions who felt run over by the globalist pig juggernaut. The globalist pigs will always cuddle American admins that weakens the one country that can short circuit their pursuit of a fake ‘heave on earth’
This morning Joe Scarborough was 'reminding' law firms that might consider helping Trump legally that Washington has a long memory... and it might hurt them financially down the road.
It doesn't need to be spelled out when 'the team' (machine, crime family, mafia, cartels, Morning Joe, etc) says the word...
That said, there must be a few real journalists at MSNBC - someone had the wit to say NO to Jon Meacham's style of fraud. THAT'S what's amazing about this story...
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