Biden is the only one who stands between the deep state and prison.
If Biden wins, all the crimes get swept away for good with safeguards put in place to prevent any future attempts to hold anyone in the deep state accountable.
Posted on 05/27/2020 6:36:54 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Below is my column in The Hill newspaper on special dispensation given Joe Biden by members of Congress, commentators, and the media. We previously discussed the muted media response to false legal comments from President Barack Obama and other Obama officials on the Flynn case.
The pattern of media avoidance is more glaring with recent Biden controversies. Notably, the column ran when Biden gave his interview on the radio show “The Breakfast Club” that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
This weekend, I was critical of segments on CNN and NBC’s Meet the Press which quoted Biden but cut off the line where he falsely claimed to have received multiple endorsements from the NAACP. CNN’s John King derisively referred to controversy as something people are “trying to make hay” out of and then played the interview. However, CNN clipped the tape to leave out the next line where Biden declared “The NAACP has endorsed me every time I’ve run. Come on, take a look at my record.”
Despite that invitation to look at his record, CNN and other media routinely cut out the false statement and also omitted any discussion of the false claim linked to the NAACP.
On a story about Biden’s claim that all black voters must vote for him (or not be truly black), it would seem material that he also falsely claimed endorsements from the leading organization in the African American community. However, it was routinely omitted from the tape and Biden has not been asked to respond to the rebuttal from the NAACP. It is precisely the type of crafting of the coverage to confine damage for Biden that is discussed in the column.
Here is the column:
One columnist declared that former Vice President Joe Biden could boil babies and she would still vote for him. Feminist leaders have said they believe Biden raped a Senate staffer but they still endorse him. Good government advocates have opposed any investigation into prior sexual harassment or corruption claims against Biden. It seems politicians and pundits alike have discovered the glory of the “presidential bull.” In this instance, Biden is akin to a papal indulgence that allows writers, members of Congress and journalists to forgive any sin in a holy crusade to retake Washington.
Urban2_aIn the 11th century, Pope Urban II formalized the use of indulgences, which could be purchased to forgive sins. A papal bull of the Crusade accompanied those who fought in the Holy Land and committed atrocities in the name of a higher order. The practice was defended as essentially drawing from the “treasury of merit” created by Jesus Christ, the saints and the faithful.
Now the 2020 election has become the ultimate crusade, and President Trump’s critics seem to be enjoying indulgences in tossing aside moral and ethical considerations. The freedom that is Biden is nowhere more evident than in a recent column by The Nation’s Katha Pollitt, who wrote about the allegations of sexual assault made by former Biden staffer Tara Reade. Pollitt dispensed with any struggle over feminist or moral qualms, declaring, “I would vote for Joe Biden if he boiled babies and ate them.”
As Pollitt explained, “We do not have the luxury of sitting out the election to feel morally pure or send a message about sexual assault and #BelieveWomen.” Otherwise, Pollitt would have to deal with her column during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, in which she denounced “some of his defenders [who] seem to be saying that even if the allegations are true, it shouldn’t really matter.”
For years, critics have expressed disgust at Trump’s statement that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters.” Yet they now afford Biden the same immunity even if he turns into the ancient god Cronus and starts snacking on boiled babies. The same indulgence has been claimed by politicians and commentators in dealing with other Biden allegations of sexual assault. Many of them demanded during the Kavanaugh controversy that all women must simply be believed when alleging sexual harassment. Those who questioned the allegations of Christine Blasey Ford were denounced for insensitivity, if not complicity, in the abuse of women.
Today, some of us have said that Biden has the stronger case thus far, but we still support an investigation. Yet many Kavanaugh critics quickly declared Biden to be innocent and opposed any search of his records — including those under lock and key at the University of Delaware — for any allegations of sexual abuse.
220px-nancy_pelosiHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) simply cut off questions by testily declaring, “I don’t need a lecture” when confronted with her prior statements. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) declared she sees no need for an investigation because she knows Biden and believes him, adding that she resented being asked about it as a victim of sexual assault. She cut off questions from CNN’s Jake Tapper by saying, “And you know what? That’s all I’m going to say about it.”
Others have struggled with an answer until they discovered the presidential bull. Women’s rights attorney Lisa Bloom said she believes Biden did rape a female staffer and has lied about it publicly but she still will endorse him for president. She tweeted, “I believe you, Tara Reade … sorry.” To use Pollitt’s language, defending a rape victim is now a “luxury.” Likewise, Linda Hirshman wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times titled “I Believe Tara Reade. I’m Voting for Joe Biden Anyway.” She explained, “Democratic primary voters knew all about Mr. Biden’s membership in that boys’ club when there was still time to pick someone else. Alas … I’ll take one for the team. I believe Ms. Reade, and I’ll vote for Mr. Biden this fall.”
Then there is commentator Karine Jean Pierre, who declared three years ago that sexual misconduct allegations alone should disqualify candidates from running for office. In December 2017, she told CNN’s Tapper, “I think we’re at a point in time in this country where the ‘Me Too’ movement has really gotten some traction. We’re finally listening to victims … and I think if you’re running for office, you can’t have been accused of sexual harassment or assault.” She just joined Biden’s campaign as a senior adviser this week. The fact is that, without political indulgences, Washington’s thick, sulfuric hypocrisy would choke the life out of the city.
After his work on the atomic bomb, scientist Robert Oppenheimer observed that “the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” If commentators have known sin (whether mortal or venial), it is in the abandonment of facts for a true faith. For legal analysts, the cardinal sin is the distortion of the law to fit a cause rather than apply the law to a given case. Many are still twisting the criminal code to come up with new crimes against Trump, regardless of future implications.
Some have said that Trump’s recent tweet about withholding funds from states over the use of mail-in voting is a crime in the making. Former prosecutor Richard Signorelli described the tweet as “the crime of extortion in plain sight” and the basis for a “new impeachment” — no matter that such an extortion charge would be utterly absurd and directly contradict controlling case law.
In the age of echo chamber journalism, legal experts are now selected according to their willingness to consistently declare that Trump or his associates are committing criminal or impeachable offenses. Any such theory, no matter how unhinged or unsupported, finds easy access to the pages of The Washington Post or segments on CNN or MSNBC. Most recently, allegations of prosecutorial abuse or judicial overreach in the Michael Flynn case have been ridiculed.
Some legal analysts have even encouraged the judge in that case, Emmet Sullivan, to take his own liberties with the law and use his courtroom to deliver a blow against Trump. The Los Angeles Times ran a recent column by former United States Attorney Harry Litman advising Sullivan how to “make trouble” for the administration. Litman admitted there is “very little leeway to reject the government’s decisions to dismiss charges” but encouraged Sullivan to “accomplish what Congress, multiple inspectors general, and a majority of the electorate have not been able to do — hold the president and his allies accountable for their contemptuous disregard for the rule of law.”
The liberating element of a presidential bull is that it relieves the bearer from justifying the means to the ends of a crusade. All sins are forgiven for that higher purpose. The defeat of Trump is that higher purpose: You can expressly support someone you believe to be a rapist. You can distort the criminal code or encourage raw forms of judicial activism. With the presidential bull, Biden will simply declare, “Ego te absolvo” — “I absolve you” — on Jan. 20, 2021, and all will be forgiven and forgotten.
Trying to be as nice as I can, he needs a rocker and a front porch. No way can he lead; he can barely function.
Should be more like “Why Joe Biden apparently can’t do anything anymore”
That is nice but he doesn't deserve it.
He is endangering our lives by covering up his severe dementia condition. He could destroy the world by a command to the fleet to aggressively take on North Korea, Iran or China and have a nuclear giant retaliate. Or simply make a big mistake with the nuclear codes when he's out of his mind and living in a personal dream world.
He's already "off his rocker."
Jill Biden is on her own huge ego trip to be in the White House and maybe say she can be the new Hillary by waving to people a lot next to Joe until he is gone and she runs for office. And the grasping, greedy women who are desperate to be VP and speak at Biden's funeral as they assume the Presidency know he is sick, too.
That sure seems to be the case.
And it is evident to everyone!
What's the deal - is he playing the best 'Rope a Dope' ploy since Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman?
Do the Dems have a plan to have him assassinated (or fake his death) - so they can have a a month long farewell funeral service (like Wellstone's and Gabbert's Funeral Campaign rallies) prior to the Election. And they can also declare any investigations of the Ukrainian/US corruption as being 'off-limits' for going after a 'dead American patriot'?
I don't get it - the Dems (and everyone) know that Biden is senile. Something is up...
As the economy improves and rebounds, Sleepy Joe will be replaced.
Crooked Hillary tried to hide, and was beat.
Honestly, just being nice. You know as well as I that whole Ukrainian impeachment deal was the Biden’s. I don’t know if he’ll ever have a come to Jesus moment. The fruit flies are circling that rotted fruit
I cannot even imagine having to hear this idiot for the next 4 years. I certainly hope the trump campaign has its act together to ensure he wins. I think opening the economy back up will help.
Yes something is up. The whole virus deal is convenient/coincidental timing right after the Ukrainian deal. What is perplexing is this whole communist deal( medical lockdown) is up Bernie’s alley.
Unless something else is afoot as you suggest. Something even worse than the Wuhan virus. National debt? Single payer? Climate Change? It’s all on the table now.
>> Any such theory, no matter how unhinged or unsupported, finds easy access to the pages of The Washington Post or segments on CNN or MSNBC
CNN is ATT
MSNBC is Comcast
He couldn’t do anything wrong right.
Biden is the only one who stands between the deep state and prison.
If Biden wins, all the crimes get swept away for good with safeguards put in place to prevent any future attempts to hold anyone in the deep state accountable.
Maybe that is really all they got. He is not all there and that is scary. I am sure the DNC has put out the feelers to everyone and I guess none can poll high or don’t want it. All that being said,they block Sanders. Lucky for us.
Guess I’m in tin foil land, but I would’t be surprised if he will be “picked off” for the sympathy vote for Democrats. His wife is pushing for a cabinet position or similar in this event, she doesn’t care about his welfare and probably would benefit with him out of the way. I thought this about Omar, also. She is bipolar crazy in addition to her evil Muslim goals, and might have become a lightning rod to Muslims who want to camouflage. There has to be something more sinister than running Biden, even to fill a vacated office after he is yanked.
In fact, is this even legal, running a candidate who has announced vacating after 1 term (even though he wouldn’t make 1 week)? These are democrats, think sinister.
(h/t GOP Congress) Democrats are fine with Biden......they don’t want a strong, individual-minded president.
Their ability to manage the decline, and destruction, of the United States lies in someone that they can shape as events unfold while they manipulate the Deep State agenda.
THINK BACK.......lies by candidate Obama tell the dirty tale.....about voter registration, illegal alien invasion (NOT “immigration” which only implies those here through legal process), free speech, and even race relations circa 2008......
Heck, they made Obama sound just like Donald Trump.
And remember when the lying, duplicitous Obama said while campaigning, “I want to be another Reagan.”
Joe/Jill 2020
The team that gets it done!
Well I suppose this explains a bit of the mindset of the dims. The line boil babies and eat them is telling given that the ultimate ritual of the dims is abortion. Almost like Biden fondling girls and women on camera and that means nothing to them as well.
This video needs to go viral. https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1265083437532286978?s=20
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