By Buck Sexton
Political journalists are covering this White House exactly as anticipated...
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The D.C. press corps is entirely in the pocket of the Biden team in the most servile, sycophantic way. Watching their Fourth Estate cosplay “speak truth to power” moments during White House press conferences is pathetic and groan-inducing. They pander for a pat on the head from the jarringly mediocre Press Secretary Jen Psaki and gush at every utterance from anyone even vaguely associated with the reign of good ol’ Amtrak Joe. While theirs is a total abdication of journalistic integrity, it’s also deeply boring. More or less, the only members of the White House press corps who ever ask a challenging question of the Biden team work for Fox News. You can almost hear the groans coming from the supposed “guardians of our democracy” who sit around them. Legacy media journalists might as well be wearing Harris-Biden 2024 hats while they sit in the West Wing. We’ve certainly seen partisan play-acting like this before. Beltway journos and the national media were devoted to then-President Obama in a way that bordered on the amorous. With Biden, journalists view their calling as smothering anyone who recognizes reality with a pillow while they drape a cardigan over the president’s shoulders and feed him applesauce. This is a man who will soon be 79 years old. In all fairness, he’s probably not up for a job that involves much more than feeding squirrels in the park and reading picture books to the grandkids. He’s definitely not a responsible choice to be leader of the free world, but here we are...
As obvious as media partisanship on Biden’s behalf may be, it’s unfortunately effective. In the fourth month of the Biden presidency, a recent AP-NORC poll had his approval rating at 63%. We live in a time when it’s astonishingly difficult for the American people to get an honest sense of what the Biden White House is really doing and how much further Left he hopes to take the country.
‘SOUND LIKE FDR... GOVERN LIKE AOC’
Based on what we have seen in the first four months, swing voters didn’t get the centrist uniter they were promised during the campaign. That has been clear with every executive order, speech, and casual utterance from Biden since his taking office. What we’re witnessing is a president who speaks in the mumbled tones of a moderate while making radical policy promises (that he can’t deliver because of razor-thin congressional majorities). Biden’s governing philosophy (if such a thing exists) seems to be “sound like FDR, govern like AOC.” Now I know this is admittedly a contentious, partisan appraisal... but the corporate media has so little interest in an adversarial approach to Biden and the rest of the Democrats in power, the only analysis worth reading these days generally comes from critics on the Right. With that in mind, here’s an assessment looking at the biggest issues of what Joe Biden
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