Major news organizations ripped at Ronald Reagan when he was the country’s 40th president whenever he stumbled over his words or made an impulsive remark. When he was elected in 1980 at the age of 69, news articles, editorials, and political columns questioned his eligibility for office and said that he was too old to serve as president.
Forty years later, the mainstream media gives 79-year-old Joe Biden, the country’s 46th president, a pass despite his long history of gaffes, embellishments, tall stories, and cognitive impairment. Why did the media treat Reagan, one of the most successful presidents of the 20th century, so harshly while treating the failing Biden with child gloves? Bias based on ideology is the solution.
However, in the Reagan era, dishonest leftist journalists presented themselves as unbiased, open-minded, impartial, and dispassionate experts committed to discovering and reporting the truth. The “above the fray” ruse was abandoned during the Trump era. Broadcast and print media turned became prominent political activists in order to topple the 45th president’s government and elect a sluggish Biden.
Lester Holt, the anchor of NBC Nightly News, applauded this transformation in a speech he gave at an awards banquet in 2021. Fairness is overrated, I think that much has become evident, he remarked. “The reality we live in does not reflect the concept that we should constantly give two sides equal weight and importance.”
You now have it.
The “Holt Doctrine,” which controls the press business, has as its first principle that Joe Biden must be supported, regardless of how absurd his ramblings or wrong his policies may be.
Joe Concha’s fascinating new book, “Come On Man: The Truth About Joe Biden’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Presidency,” explores the relationship between the media and Biden. Concha, a veteran political and media critic for The Hill, argues that Biden “has been a man who routinely bloated his CV, raised his hard scrapple credentials, and will say or do whatever that is politically convenient.”
Additionally, Biden has gotten away with mistakes and falsehoods that would have ruined the public careers of other politicians because to accommodative journalists.
When it was discovered that Biden had plagiarized speeches from British politician Neil Kinnock in 1988, he acknowledged to the act but said it was “not malicious.” Biden then abandoned his bid for the president because he was a victim of shady politics. He continued to serve in the Senate as though nothing had happened once the press accepted this nonsense.
When discussing Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008, he observed, “You now have the first intelligent, eloquent, clean, and good-looking African American in the mainstream. That, dude, is a fairytale.”
“Imagine any person who is even slightly right of center saying that about any black guy,” Concha writes. There would be no more pitchforks available for purchase at the Pitchfork Protest Store.”
In 2020, after bragging about his high IQ at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Biden went on to falsely claim to have received a full academic scholarship for law school, to have graduated in the top half of his class, to have won the International Moot Court competition, and to have earned three undergraduate degrees. And he also got away with that bunch of nonsense.
Due to the desire of establishment elites to defeat Trump, Biden was not investigated in 2020 over false comments, Hunter Biden’s finances, and a “in the basement” campaign.
Concha observes that “the left-wing media monoculture is so powerful that in 2020 they just couldn’t bring themselves to ask Joe Biden any difficult questions.” The media has kept Biden out of the spotlight ever since he took the oath of office.
The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the rise in crime in American cities, the 2.3 million illegal immigrants crossing our border, the inflation reaching 40-year highs, the 400 deaths per day from COVID-19, the opioid overdose crisis, and “his unsteady grasp of the truth or reality” have received little attention from the media.
Joe Concha adds “Joe Biden will be remembered as the worst president in our generation, said Come On Man.
But many in our media will keep supporting him as long as they can.
“Too many media professionals have abandoned objectivity. Assuming that his shortcomings were brought on by his “normalcy” rather than his extremist ideas, they will look for an even more extreme candidate when he exits the stage.
“Even after dad has departed, they will embrace someone. Social media will also play a role. There will be a remedy.” Considerably ominous perspective, don’t you think?
