{"id":1383392,"date":"2022-03-16T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383392"},"modified":"2022-03-16T08:09:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:09:18","slug":"liberals-like-bill-maher-bari-weiss-and-andrew-sullivan-should-apologize-for-whitewashing-joe-bidens-corruption-and-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberals-like-bill-maher-bari-weiss-and-andrew-sullivan-should-apologize-for-whitewashing-joe-bidens-corruption-and-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Like Bill Maher, Bari Weiss, And Andrew Sullivan Should Apologize For Whitewashing Joe Biden\u2019s Corruption And Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberals-like-bill-maher-bari-weiss-and-andrew-sullivan-should-apologize-for-whitewashing-joe-bidens-corruption-and-incompetence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383392&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bill-maher-2022.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As we face disaster after disaster in just the first year of Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, it\u2019s a good time to remember the anti-woke liberals who disdained Donald Trump and praised Joe Biden as moderate, \u201cdecent\u201d \u2018ol Uncle Joe from Scranton. That view of Biden was always ridiculous. But amid today\u2019s roiling war and inflation, the disaster that is the Biden presidency now renders such a foolish judgment obscene.<\/p>\n<p>These folks likely will never recant their view\u00a0that Trump is horrid. Fine. But will they now admit that Biden is horrid as well? If they don\u2019t, they don\u2019t deserve to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s questionable whether they deserve to be taken seriously either way, as the case for Biden\u2019s awfulness\u00a0before his presidency was manifest. He was always a venal, mendacious, and fraudulent mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>He lied about his academic record. He publicly slimed and slandered Clarence Thomas, Janice Rogers Brown, and Miguel Estrada. He was a plagiarist. He was wrong about every foreign policy matter in the last 50 years. He said Mitt Romney would put black citizens \u201cback in chains.\u201d He has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Trump, who focused his fire on his rich or powerful opponents, Biden rails against the little guys who dare to challenge him by calling them \u201cfat\u201d and insisting \u201cyou ain\u2019t black.\u201d His corrupt international financial dealings\u2014\u201cten percent for the big guy\u201d and \u201cson of a b-tch that prosecutor was fired\u201d\u2014are beyond reasonable dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the wickedest Bidenism known for certain before the election was how Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/oct\/18\/joe-bidens-false-claim-about-drunken-driver-draws-\/\">lied, frequently and with abandon,<\/a> about the tragic car accident that killed his wife and child. Biden claimed repeatedly that the other driver was drunk. That was a vicious lie, as the police report made clear. Indeed, the police record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/oct\/18\/joe-bidens-false-claim-about-drunken-driver-draws-\/\">indicates <\/a>Mrs. Biden was at fault in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and his family pleaded with Biden to correct the record. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/1563919\/joe-biden-drunk-crash-neilia-trump-delaware\/\">didn\u2019t for years<\/a>. His refusal means the poor man went to his grave burdened with the calumny that his drunkenness\u00a0had caused the accident. That is profoundly evil. Joe Biden did that.<\/p>\n<p>All of this was known at the time of the 2020 election. But some Very Good Liberals put their fingers in their ears and their hands over their eyes and ignored all this evidence. They did not only hold their noses to vote for Biden. They went out of their way to praise him.<\/p>\n<p>These are the liberals who publicly go aghast at woke nonsense, critical race theory, and transgender extremism, people like Andrew Sullivan, Bari Weiss, and Bill Maher.<\/p>\n<p>There is no better example than Sullivan. In an August 19, 2019 New York Magazine article roasting Trump, Sullivan opined: \u201cI don\u2019t think Biden\u2019s age matters much.\u201d Despite the very public Biden character problems recounted above, Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/08\/andrew-sullivan-biden-can-make-the-moral-case-against-trump.html\">embarrassingly gushed<\/a> about Biden: \u201c[D]ecency is the heart of his candidacy. And voting for Joe Biden feels like voting for some things we\u2019ve lost and have one last chance to regain. Normalcy, generosity, civility, experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was absurd, but perhaps it served a psychological need at the time to draw a Manichean contrast between the two candidates. Still, it would be delusional to maintain that position today. Does Sullivan still think Biden\u2019s age does not \u201cmatter much\u201d and that he represents \u201cdecency, normalcy, generosity, civility, experience\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Weiss, formerly of The New York Times and now at Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/its-done-what-comes-next?s=r\">wrote<\/a> on January 22, 2021 that \u201cBiden is an eminently decent and kind man. That fact that his decency seems positively\u00a0refreshing is a tragic sign of where we are.\u201d <em>Decent? Kind?<\/em> Does Weiss still believe that?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s Maher. As late as April 23, 2021, Maher on his \u201cReal Time\u201d\u00a0show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/bill-maher-holds-up-joe-biden-as-the-ultimate-way-to-debunk-ageism-video\/\">praised<\/a> Biden, unironically, as \u201ccompletely on top of things.\u201d Maher gushed that Biden was \u201cfocused and sharp\u201d and \u201cgetting things done\u201d on racial injustice, income inequality, Afghanistan (!), and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Maher has recently criticized\u00a0Biden. But has he ever recanted his statement that was ludicrous\u00a0when uttered, and is even more so now, that Biden is \u201ccompletely on top of things?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These obvious flaws in political judgment pale in comparison to those of 70 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defendingdemocracytogether.org\/national-security\/\">Former Republican National Security Advisors for Biden<\/a>.\u201d \u201cSerious people\u201d like Richard Burt,\u00a0Clyde Prestowitz, Winston Lord, William Webster, John Warner, Chuck Hagel, Carla Hills, John Negroponte, and Richard Armitage opined that Trump was a clear and present danger.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, they wrote \u201cJoe Biden has the character, experience and temperament to lead this nation. We believe he will restore the dignity of the presidency, bring Americans, together, reassert America\u2019s role as a global leader, and inspire our nation to live up to its ideals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, this was absurd when written. Now it seems downright Orwellian. Have any of these \u201cexperts\u201d apologized or recanted in any way? On the contrary: that statement remains active to this very day at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/defendingdemocracytogether.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defendingdemocracytogether.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One notable exception is podcaster Sam Harris. On July 21, 2020, Harris tweeted \u201c[t]here\u2019s almost nothing Biden could be guilty of that would disqualify him in an election against Trump.\u201d In an infamous January 20, 2021 tweet, Harris shared with the world his \u201coverwhelming gratitude\u00a0for the adults in the room.\u201d To his credit, in the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, Harris admitted he was wrong: \u201cPublicly\u00a0eating these\u00a0words . . . syllable by syllable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is now March 2022, and the case for \u201ceating words\u201d of praise for Biden\u2019s decency and competence has grown stronger with each roiling disaster, be it Covid lies and lockdowns, soaring gas prices and inflation, the border crisis, or war. But we have yet to see the Andrew Sullivans, Bill Mahers, Bari Weisses, and esteemed \u201cRepublican National Security Advisors\u201d\u00a0man up and apologize.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, Andrew. Let\u2019s hear it, Bari, Go for it, Bill.\u00a0How about you, Dick Armitage? We\u2019re waiting.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Mr. Soriano, a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, started his professional life at New York&#8217;s Simpson Thacher &#038; Bartlett before working in law and compliance in Corporate America, most recently as Chief Compliance Officer at Celgene Corporation and Insmed Incorporated, both pharmaceutical companies. Follow him on Twitter and GETTR @sorianojohnd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we face disaster after disaster in just the first year of Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, it\u2019s a good time to remember the anti-woke liberals who disdained Donald Trump and praised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}