I'm Old Enough to Remember When the Media Hated a Trash-Talking President

Aren’t you? Don’t you remember when our utterly corrupt propaganda media establishment smeared, hoaxed and slandered a trash-talking president named Donald Trump for four solid year? Aren’t you old enough to remember their claims that his “mean tweets” were a major reason behind his nominal loss in 2020?

Sure, you are. If you’re over the age of 2, anyway.

Today, though, the Democrat activist hacks at Politico are telling their audience that, hey, now that it’s a Democrat doing it, being a trash-talking, profanity-spewing elderly gentleman is just peachy. Even better, the writer, some guy named John F. Harris, says it is the key to the Sock Puppet’s recovery with the public! Literally, the headline to the story praises it: “How Trash Talk Can Save Biden’s Presidency.”

I swear I do not make this stuff up. Check out this excerpt:

The air between the reporter and the president, of course, is not the most important air that needs clearing from Biden’s perspective. It is the gap between the grand hopes Democrats had for his presidency a year ago and the present reality of a stalled agenda, a divided party, a rancid political culture and the haunting sense that he may not be quite up the task of turning all this around in time for 2022 and 2024 elections.

As it happens, Biden’s lapse of presidential decorum hints at a path toward restoring presidential vitality.

The whole encounter — including Doocy’s genial refusal to get all huffy about Biden’s flash of huffiness — was in its own way quite winning. It was also a reminder of how many memorable Biden moments feature casual profanity or bursts of authentic emotion amid the pervasive phoniness of contemporary politics.

There was the famous time when he whispered to President Barack Obama at a White House podium that the passage of health care reform was “a big fucking deal.” Or when he told an Iowa voter who pressed him on his ethical and physical fitness for the presidency that, “You’re a damn liar, man,” before challenging him to a pushup contest. Perhaps Biden’s most memorable moment during the fall 2020 presidential debates was when he responded to former President Donald Trump’s incessant interruptions by rasping, “Will you shut up, man?”

These exchanges offer a small window into a potential remedy for a big problem. Biden has spent his adult life seeking, and finally holds, an office which by many conventional standards he is poorly equipped to hold. The modern presidency at its core is a communications platform. Key to its power, for better and for worse, is its ability to dominate public conversation.

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And thus, the writer lands back on the tiresome media trope that Biden’s problems with the public are all just “bad communications” in nature. This is a smelly load of horse manure, of course, but it’s what Democrat activists like this writer put out there in order to avoid writing the truth, which is that the far-leftwing policies Biden has pursued in office are hugely unpopular with the average person on the street.

The fact that the hacks at Politico are now not just praising Biden for the very same behavior over which the invariably scorched Donald Trump only serves as one more in a line of thousands of data points proving how worthless and corrupt our national news media establishment truly is.

A pox on all their houses, I say.

That is all.