Commentary

When the whiners in the White House complained about the treatment by the media, even to the point of saying the media was treating Biden worse than Trump, Nick Arama, writing in Red State said it is “a demonstratable untruth.”  Of course it is.

Dana Milbank, one of the Biden water-carriers at the Washington Post, seemingly had to be convinced, no doubt because the Post has been a Biden sympathizer in print.

Milbank hired a data analytics firm to comb through more than 200,000 articles – tens of millions of words – from 65 news websites to do a “sentiment analysis” of coverage.  They rated coverage Biden received in the first 11 months of this year with what Trump got in the first 11 months of 2020.

“The findings confirmed my fears,” Milbank wrote in an opinion piece, noting that “Biden’s press for the past four months has been as bad as – and for a time worse than – the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.”

That may be, but Trump took four years of negative press and it continues while he’s out of office.

“How to explain why Biden would be treated more harshly than a president who actively subverted democracy,” he wrote absurdly.

Unbelievably, Milbank faulted his liberal colleagues in the media, referring to them as “accessories to the murder of democracy,” citing Huff Post and Salon for their negative articles.

“We need a skeptical, independent press,” wrote Milbank, “But how about being partisans for democracy?”

Right on cue, Ron Klain, President Biden’s chief of staff, took to Twitter quoting from Milbank’s essay, and linking it “for your consideration,” hoping to promote readership by those who don’t generally read the Post.

“It’s a sign of just how detached from reality this White House has become,“ the New York Post editorial board responded.

“Milbank’s own paper never went a day without multiple ‘Trump is Satan/Hitler’ stories,” they wrote, “they were in the tank for Biden all along, even suppressing this Post’s Hunter Biden scoops.”

In an attempt to counter the bad press, the White House recently booked the president, first lady and Vice President Harris on mainstream media outlets, where they received softball questions.

I recalled Vogue magazine referring to the first lady “looking every inch a goddess,” crediting her for “Biden’s right-out-of-the-gate successes,” suggesting “It’s hard to imagine Joe doing this without her.”  That was downright scary, I thought.  Now she’s tasked with saving his job.

Jill Biden dismissed out of hand questions about her husband’s mental fitness, merely saying, “I think that’s ridiculous.” So we’re just supposed to pretend we don’t see what we see or hear what we hear, Arama noted.

As I wrote here back in July, “I wonder how (she) could have allowed Joe to run for president.  Surely, she was aware that he wasn’t up to it.  Seriously.”  How cruel. 

Now, six months later, he’s mired in low approval ratings, and looking frail. The way I see it, Biden will continue to stumble along, unwilling to make course corrections, while we suffer over the inflation, for which he and his party are responsible.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.