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The New York Times has long ago abandoned any pretense of being an actual news source and has settled into its role as the foremost propaganda arm of the hard Left, capitalizing upon the fact that there is still a considerable number of people in the U.S. and around the world who still think that the Times can be trusted to report events impartially and accurately. In reality, the only thing the Times is good for is revealing what the political and media elites are thinking, and a Friday opinion piece dropped a bombshell, in the Times’ muted, bloodless Voice-of-the-Ages manner: the Leftist establishment is through with Old Joe Biden. Watch for him to be replaced as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024, and he could be gone even sooner.
The author of the “Guest Essay” was Jonathan Alter, a respected far-Left intellectual who has written hagiographic biographies of some of the Left’s foremost saints, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama. But don’t expect Old Joe to take his place as the fourth member of Alter’s personal woke Mount Rushmore anytime soon: Alter once admired the serial liar who is currently pretending to be president but no more. The classified documents scandal has the Leftist “historian” searching for a new hero.
Alter begins by lamenting past glories: “Remember the iconic image of a smiling Joe Biden in his 1967 Corvette Stingray? It conjured charming Uncle Joe, a retro-cool guy who’d been around the track and knew how to handle it.” But all that is gone now: “Four months after President Biden called Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents ‘irresponsible,’ that vintage car — parked at the president’s home in Delaware next to his own boxes containing classified material — has been transformed into a shiny symbol of hypocrisy. If you went into a G.O.P. whataboutism lab and asked for a perfect gaffe, you’d come out with the president snapping last week to a Fox News reporter, ‘My Corvette is in a locked garage.’ Well, the storage room at Mar-a-Lago is locked, too.” Ouch!
Alter quickly takes pains to reassure his easy marks, that is, New York Times readers, that he is certain that Biden’s classified documents scandal is trivial compared to Trump’s but laments that the general public is too stupid to recognize this: “Many voters with better things to do with their time than parse the nuances of presidential record keeping may casually conclude that both men are careless, lying politicians.” Or even, perish the thought, that one of them is the target of a relentless and now eight-year-long witch hunt, while the other gets protection from compromised, corrupt, relentlessly politicized government agencies.
There is more. Read the rest here.
somehistory says
biden took the documents to the university where he had an office and a large salary given to him by penn…..some believe he was using the papers as source for a book about his time as vp…but he didn’t have the authority to declassify those papers…so who allowed him to take them along?
And, the chinese were giving large sums of money to the university at the same time….question: did biden allow the chinese to have a look at those papers?
This kind of article is akin to someone being chastised for driving a car without oil in the engine and finding out the one doing the chastising put sand in the gas tank.
All of the lies, crimes and subterfuge are getting really old.
David M says
Old Joe & his corrupt son Hunter are as crooked as a bookies elbow. I would bet anything they are both on the take & compromised by China.
somehistory says
They are made of corruption…like slag or scummy dross…not a single good cell.in their sorry bodies.
John ..Smith says
All the Biden’s are crooks. How the hell these two have got away with things for so long is beyond me.
wpm says
Old Joe has fulfilled his roll as the useful idiot for the progressives handlers that scripted everything he does and says His problem with staying on script, he announced that he will run again in 2024 with the democrats losing no matter who is on the republic side runs, it is time to 86 old Joe. He is like an old stove that does not work right any more ,or a broken dishwasher ,he is basic kitchen appliance that the democratic machine has to replace. Will Harris someone less likeable, more mush mouth, the over the hill good for elected officials side piece girl run I think not. How ever who is chosen to be the new vice president will be running in2024 on the democratic ticket.
somehistory says
“Rep. Comer to Newsmax: Biden, Family Under Probe for ‘Influence Peddling'”
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/joe-biden-hunter-biden-china/2023/01/21/
tim gallagher says
Biden, the demented clown, is past his use by date. Good riddance although the Democrats will come up with some other destructive left wing piece of crap. That article was interesting where Alter writes about Biden, from a left winger’s point of view being a “charming, retro cool guy who’d been around the track and knew how to handle it”. Excuse me while I vomit. I have often wondered how Biden got so far up the greasy pole. Maybe that bullshit if how left wingers see the maggot. To me he seems to be a corrupt piece of trash, an endlessly lying self promoter, and also a pedophile acting very creepily around young girls. But, apparently to some brain dead lefties, he is a Retro cool” dude and has some charm. i can’t see anything pleasant about Biden and his son, Hunter, the corrupt creep, is similar to his father. A couple of slimy criminal types.
James Lincoln says
tim,
You have posted a very accurate description of Sleepy Creepy Joe.
His fraudulent presidency is not only a disaster for the United States, it’s a disaster for the rest of the Western world.
tim gallagher says
Bloody oath it is disaster for the entire world, James. The leaders of evil regimes everywhere in the world, whether Xi from China or the Muslim countries’ leaders must see the brain dead Biden as a gift that just keeps on giving. I hear commentators out here saying that Biden is no longer useful to the Democrats because the Republicans have won control of one of the houses of government (or maybe it is only one of the houses) and so it is time to put the demented old loon out to pasture ( imagine that this demented clown thinks that he is fit to run for the Presidency again – talk about being dangerously out of touch with reality). With a mediocre type like Biden, I get how Obama wanted the idiot for Vice President because the Presidents often seem to like to have a low IQ fool as Vice President so they look brilliant by comparison, but how he became President I don’t get except for the extreme hatred that Trump generates. Anyway, good to see Biden heading for the scrap heap now.
James Lincoln says
tim,
Thank you for your very accurate reply.
God bless.
tim gallagher says
You are welcome to my ten cents worth, James. My views are mostly the opinions that I hear from some of the commentators I see on Sky News out here. I hope God is looking after you and your family and friends as well. It will be good to watch Biden shoved aside. No doubt the Democrats will come up with another clown. Commentators out here often mention that it will be the Governor of California, named Newsome – not sure of the spelling.
Wellington says
It has come to this in America, to wit, a talentless political hack of half a century, and corrupt, creepy and mendacious as well, has ascended to the top of the greasy pole. I hope this is not an indicator of how much my country has fallen but I think and fear it is.
Something is terribly wrong with America and the dismal Joe Biden can easily serve as the “poster boy” for this descent. LGB.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Before Biden, we never had a POTUS who was the equivalent of a somewhat demented Mafia boss.
tim gallagher says
There’s definitely a problem, Wellington, when you end up with Biden, and that cackling idiot Kamala Harris, in the two top positions. James, a demented Mafia boss seems to me to be a good, very accurate description of Biden.
Ade Fegan says
No honour among thieves
ME Infidel says
I’m assuming that the NYT threw Dementia Joe under an electric bus.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So who do they want in 2024? Do they really believe that they can pull a Gavin Newsome over the top in the same way they did Joe Biden?
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Anything is possible unless we go to:
1. Same-day voting.
2. In-person voting (with rare exceptions for the disabled)
3. Voter ID
4. Paper ballots
5. Hand counted.
PRCS says
With various polls in mind, the worst aspect of Joe Dementia’s reign is–arguably–that so many of our fellow citizens think he’s doing a bang-up job.
Now two years into his disastrous term, no one who cares about our nation should be proud of having voted for him.
somehistory says
Question: Who is driving the bus?