Now that Joe Biden’s approval rating has fallen—it’s hovering in the low 40s, and it can’t get up—the Main Stream Media have come up with a new line of defense for their man. Okay, goes this new line, Biden isn’t doing so well, but that’s to be expected—because no president can do well. That is, the problems are just too tough, the job is just too hard, the country is just too polarized, yada yada yada.
Which certainly sees itself as higher and better than the American public and its bourgeois ways, is all in with its last-ditch apologia for the 46th president.
The 40th president, Ronald Reagan, dramatically cut inflation.
The CNN story even said of Biden, "There's not much he can do to compel cooperation from defectors within his thin Democratic congressional majorities." We might recall that Biden spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate, and another eight years, as vice president, as president of the Senate.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House April 21, 2022, in Washington, DC. Here again, Ronald Reagan provides a reminder that presidential effectiveness is possible.
Late last year The Atlantic opined: Both the public and the media sometimes see the president as the commander of our ship of state-a kind of all-powerful steward of all affairs economic, geopolitical, and biological.
Addressing gasoline prices, on April 20 he tweeted, "Let's be absolutely clear about why prices are high right now: COVID and Vladimir Putin." Got that? The president wants you to forget any notion that the cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline, or all the other Biden anti-energy policies, have anything to do with high gas prices.
Nearly half a century ago, the 39th president sang the same song of poor, poor pitiful me, and he, too, had the major media on his side.
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