Posted on 08/01/2022 7:49:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Was this a Biden commercial? Or just an Axios.com commercial touting Biden?
At the end of Monday's Way Too Early, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire introduced their regular feature on Axios.com's "1 Big Thing." Axios co-founder Mike Allen (a former New York Times and Washington Post reporter) sounded like a Biden advertisement, gushing over "Biden's Success Story" on the economy and going so far as to compare him to Ronald Reagan at this point in their presidencies, even though Biden looks more like Jimmy Carter.
Allen touted "Biden's winning streak" on legislation, a "rewiring of the economy."
ALLEN: So we just saw the new investments in chip-making in the U.S. Early, big investments in the U.S. capacity to make vaccines, get ready for the next threat. Of course, the infrastructure bill. And the interesting twist to this, Jonathan, is that there is an America-First populist streak to this.That is more oil drilling, here! Making more vaccines, here! With a possible victory coming up, more clean energy, here! And possibly the biggest in history.
Now, asterisk to this, is so far, President Biden doesn't seem to be getting a whole lot of credit for this. He hasn't explained it as well as he could. But when you add it up, it is a remarkable record.
Biden hasn't explained his "success story," so he needs liberal journalists to do it for him.
If this boosterism wasn't gross enough, then came the comparisons to Ronald Reagan. Lemire called it an "unlikely" comparison. That's putting it mildly. But Allen went to work (for the White House "confidant," maybe chief of staff Ron Klain):
ALLEN: The headline on Axios, "We are Reagan." That's what a Biden confidant told me. And here's what they have in mind. You and I could say Biden had a series of breaks after not being able to catch a break for a year. Baby formula winding up on his desk. The Biden view is that he is, this is a payoff, a vindication, for playing the long game. So when that confidant said "We are Reagan," their extension of that was, we had a big plan, and it's getting in place. And what they say is that President Biden, sticking to his bottom-up, middle-out strategy for the economy, rather than top down, has paid off. That they've stuck to that across all of their big issues.
It's more like a bottomed-out economy, dragging down everyone and their retirement accounts. But then it got really goopy:
ALLEN: And Jonathan, they point us to a poll, in The Washington Post, August 1982, 40 years ago this month for the seasoned viewers out there, Barry Sussman byline, one of the classics. And this was a poll with 58 percent of people in August 1982, saying that first-term president Ronald Reagan shouldn't run again. And of course, as resonance to this, we've had a parade of polls, people saying President Biden shouldn't run again. Most notably, there's a new USA Today-Suffolk poll saying two- thirds of voters don't think President Biden or former President Trump should run again. They don't want the rematch. And the punchline to this, less than two years after that poll, in 1984, Ronald Reagan won 49 states, the most electoral [college] votes of any candidate in history.
Allen offered the "asterisk" that while "the president's inner circle may think of him as Reagan," there's "great skepticism among voters."
This MSNBC segment comparing Biden to Reagan was brought to you in part by T-Mobile.
Brandon is great as a negative example. That’s it.
The media is destroying our country, with the willing help of the Dems.
And they are now touting more oil drilling here?
I thought they hated fossil fuels.
Chocolate ration raised to 20 grams a week!
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Good and Plenty as far as the eye can see. Thanks, Brandon!
When everything is going down the tubes, lie your ass off. That’s the lamestream media policy right now.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Another work of gaslighting garbage by a shitlib who doesn’t pump their own gas or wait in a grocery store checkout line.
They do that regardless............................
Success? No. Thief? You betcha.
"My butt's been wiped."
Why are media outlets advocating legislation and policy? This is hardly a free press.......
From the Left’s point of view Biden has advanced their insane agenda and is therefore a “success”. Say what you will about him, but he and his handlers have pushed the Left’s agenda forward by leaps and bounds.
When the Clintons finally die and are buried, the only lines you see will be those wanting to urinate on their graves.
Does anyone, even the lefty’s, take the MSM serious on political matters? They’re a propaganda organ.
Radical Leftist activists pretending to be reporters.
Not my German neighbors. In the weeks preceding the 1980 election, they originally pleaded with me to vote for Carter, because they were sure Reagan would start WWIII.
2-3 times a week, I dined at the neighborhood family restaurant, advocating for Reagan and what he stood for. My main theme was that the world is a safer place when America is strong, and Reagan was the man to do the job. I always spoke German during those discussions.
Checkmate arrived on Inauguration Day, when the Iranian hostages were released, and made their first landing at Ramstein Air Base, about an hour's drive from where I lived.
I was rewarded with a seat at the stammtische, a table designated for family and close friends of the family. It's an honor I cherish to this day. Talk to any American who has spent time in Germany, you'll find that very few Americans are accorded such an honor.
Nothing but fond memories of living in Germany, I will always consider it my second home.
BTW, my "truism" still holds true, i.e. the world is a safer place when America is strong. How safe are we feeling today?
What’s with the Biden staged isolating cameos with his dog “Commander” who if you know dogs, has absolutely no interest in Joe Biden? The dog is fixed on his handler while in the Joe camera shot.
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