{"id":1489523,"date":"2022-05-24T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489523"},"modified":"2022-05-24T08:31:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:31:50","slug":"thomas-friedman-went-to-lunch-with-joe-biden-and-left-full-of-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thomas-friedman-went-to-lunch-with-joe-biden-and-left-full-of-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman Went To Lunch With Joe Biden And Left Full Of Crap"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fthomas-friedman-went-to-lunch-with-joe-biden-and-left-full-of-crap%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=1489523&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\/05\/Thomas-Friedman.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The New York Times\u2019 Thomas Friedman \u2014\u00a0yes, <em>the<\/em> Thomas Friedman \u2014\u00a0ended his most recent and very bland column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/22\/opinion\/biden-trump-republicans-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this week<\/a> with the declaration that he had \u201cleft my lunch with the president with a full stomach but a heavy heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedman no doubt left his meeting full and heavy. The article he churned out after his very important meal with President Biden is beyond bloated. Although Friedman said their conversation was off-record, he was gracious enough to tell his readers what he ate and how he \u201cfelt\u201d about the encounter. In other words, it\u2019s a typical Friedman column\u2014\u00a0practically useless.<\/p>\n<p>His ultimate takeaway: Biden has been exceptionally good at managing our march <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/columnist-media-virtue-signaling-ukraine-russia-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to the brink of World War III<\/a>. (It was apparently an epic failure that, unlike Biden, Donald Trump couldn\u2019t goad Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine much sooner.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I felt afterward was this,\u201d wrote Friedman. \u201cFor all you knuckleheads on Fox who say that Biden can\u2019t put two sentences together, here\u2019s a news flash: He just put NATO together, Europe together and the whole Western alliance together \u2014 stretching from Canada up to Finland and all the way to Japan \u2014 to help Ukraine protect its fledgling democracy from Vladimir Putin\u2019s fascist assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, if that doesn\u2019t make your heart soar with patriotism, I don\u2019t know what will, <em>FOLKS<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>The only problem with that Olympian achievement Friedman credits to Biden is that it\u2019s not true. Even if it were, which one of the people who voted for him feels that it <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/13\/biden-wanted-to-restore-the-soul-of-america-heres-how-much-that-cost-you-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made her life any better<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside that Ukraine isn\u2019t a member of NATO, and thus is, in theory, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/21\/3-corporate-media-shticks-about-ukraine-that-you-should-absolutely-ignore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">owed nothing by the alliance<\/a>, Biden hasn\u2019t shown any degree of remarkable leadership there. He cut off our Russian energy imports, but our tried and true allies in Germany did not follow suit. <\/p>\n<p>Biden requested that our reliable friends in Poland <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/09\/the-media-narrative-about-bidens-strong-nato-leadership-is-predictably-imploding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">send fighter jets<\/a> to Ukraine. Their response: <em>No thanks!<\/em> Great Britain sent their prime minister to Ukraine for a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Biden sent his wife. (I believe we shouldn\u2019t be sending Americans to war zones where our national interests are, at best, ambiguous, but so long as we\u2019re talking about leadership\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>The rest of Friedman\u2019s article is a list of excuses for why Biden has been a suck of a president. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Trump\u2019s fault: \u201ca movement by Trump and his supporters \u2026 is not propelled by any coherent set of policies, but rather by a gigantic lie\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Democrats\u2019 fault: \u201cHouse Democrats also sullied one of Biden\u2019s most important bipartisan achievements \u2014 a giant infrastructure bill \u2014 by making it hostage to other excessive spending demands. The far left also saddled Biden and every Democratic candidate with radical notions like \u2018defund the police.&#8217;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s America\u2019s fault: \u201c[W]ith every passing day, every mass shooting, every racist dog whistle, every defund-the-police initiative, every nation-sundering Supreme Court ruling, every speaker run off a campus, every bogus claim of election fraud, I wonder if he can bring us back together. I wonder if it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure Friedman, a writer at America\u2019s most important newspaper, truly enjoyed his lunch with Biden. It must have made him feel really special to be invited to the White House by the president of the United States. <\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s time for him to admit what the rest of us have known for a long time now: Biden is an embarrassment and it\u2019s not because of circumstances out of his control. Biden <em>is<\/em> the circumstance that needs to be controlled.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u2019 Thomas Friedman \u2014\u00a0yes, the Thomas Friedman \u2014\u00a0ended his most recent and very bland column this week with the declaration that he had \u201cleft my lunch with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1897738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/24\/thomas-friedman-went-to-lunch-with-joe-biden-and-left-full-of-crap\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thomas-friedman-went-to-lunch-with-joe-biden-and-left-full-of-crap","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489523","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}