{"id":1549946,"date":"2022-07-12T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549946"},"modified":"2022-07-12T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:20:10","slug":"as-democrats-and-the-media-turn-on-biden-remember-they-are-the-corrupt-regime-that-empowered-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-democrats-and-the-media-turn-on-biden-remember-they-are-the-corrupt-regime-that-empowered-him\/","title":{"rendered":"As Democrats And The Media Turn On Biden, Remember: They Are The Corrupt Regime That Empowered Him"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fas-democrats-and-the-media-turn-on-biden-remember-they-are-the-corrupt-regime-that-empowered-him%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=1549946&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--><p>\u201cBiden, At 79, Shows Signs Of Age And Aides Fret About His Image,\u201d reads a headline on the front page of <a href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/07\/10\/nytfrontpage\/scan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sunday\u2019s<\/a> New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a goofy article, one that reluctantly tries to tackle the president\u2019s publicly deteriorating mental faculties while claiming he\u2019s still more fit than either Presidents Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump (Republicans). At one point, the reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/09\/us\/politics\/biden-age-democrats.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657639566395000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3B5MCt78AQB4F0RXRnY2FZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even cites<\/a> \u201cexperts\u201d who \u201cput Mr. Biden in a category of \u2018super-agers\u2019 who remain unusually fit as they advance in years.\u201d But foolishness aside, there it sits: an article questioning Biden\u2019s fitness for office on the front page of the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>And they weren\u2019t done: \u201cDemocrats Sour on Biden, Citing Age and Economy,\u201d the <a href=\"http:\/\/\">top headline read<\/a> in Monday\u2019s New York Times. \u201cPoll Shows Most Want New \u201924 Candidate as Pessimism Becomes Pervasive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/11\/us\/politics\/biden-approval-polling-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online version<\/a> of that piece even includes a box titled, \u201cThe Biden Presidency,\u201d which breaks down \u201cwhere President Biden stands\u201d \u201cwith midterm elections looming.\u201d The five categories are titled, \u201cStruggling To Inspire,\u201d \u201cLow Approval Rating,\u201d and \u201cQuestions About 2024,\u201d as well as \u201cStaff Changes,\u201d about the \u201cincreasing number of West Wing departures,\u201d and \u201cRallying Allies,\u201d about the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-275524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capture.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capture.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capture-300x225-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capture-300x225-1.jpg 768w\" alt=\"A pullout box in July 11th digital The New York Times' digital version.\" width=\"771\" height=\"577\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center g-0 mt-10\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center g-0 mt-10\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"col-12 col-md-6 body-xs px-15 pe-md-0 ps-md-30 py-15 m-0 text-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/09\/us\/politics\/biden-age-democrats.html\">A pullout box in the July 11 New York Times digital version.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Combined, the Sunday-Monday front-page punches make clear that the Times regrets putting the president in office as much as many of his voters do.<\/p>\n<p>The difference, however, is that while the public voted for him, The New York Times, their media friends, and their allies in Democratic leadership are the real people who hoisted his presidency on our country. Together, they pushed him onto a disinterested Democratic base, papered over his mental decline, suppressed criticisms of his competence, and even actively censored credible accusations of his corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Just look back two years: In February 2020, Biden had come in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2020\/primaries-caucuses\/state\/iowa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fourth<\/a> place in Iowa. A week later, he\u2019d come in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-primary-elections\/new-hampshire-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fifth<\/a> in New Hampshire. In public appearances, he was out of step with his more radical colleagues, and he alternated between sinister whispers about the future and yelling angrily into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Still, his campaign was less radical than those of his colleagues, who had endorsed open borders and gun seizures. More, he was known to the American people and would make a more standard American president than Trump did, so powerful figures coalesced behind him. And after South Caroline Poobah Rep. James Clyburn endorsed his candidacy in that state, he began to win, counting in particular on the black vote.<\/p>\n<p>With this switch, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1546129658143539200?s=12&amp;t=2bxuCXrJJOzEUkloKgcRug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a press (and party)<\/a> that had openly challenged his past positions and his competency began a steady drumbeat touting his morality and ability to do the job. Questioning his cognitive decline suddenly went from common in both corporate news <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebHowe\/status\/1144421114266968069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analysis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNnewsroom\/status\/1170409478803480576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F3DisF_284w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">political<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GiFuhLJ0Fq0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debates<\/a> to forbidden. Some public figures who\u2019d questioned his capacity even <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinceCoglianese\/status\/1546477315638677505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deleted their tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the former vice president ran a bunker campaign with barely any press access, corporate media breathlessly covered Trump\u2019s Covid fight, comparing it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2020-03-26\/coronavirus-isn-t-trump-s-katrina-it-s-his-vietnam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Vietnam War<\/a>. The District of Columbia even erected crosses for the dead, next to a moving counter keeping tabs of deaths attributed to the disease. (The display was removed after Trump lost the election.)<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s South Carolina comeback wasn\u2019t just unusual, it was artificial. The only other Democratic presidential candidate to have achieved this feat before was Bill Clinton, who skipped Iowa altogether (ceding it to the hometown candidate) but then so outperformed expectations in New Hampshire, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-second-candidate-win-democratic-nomination-after-losing-iowa-new-hampshire-1492280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was nicknamed<\/a> \u201cThe Comeback Kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While America\u2019s elite presidential historians rushed to tell the public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/10\/995649950\/is-biden-the-next-fdr-or-lbj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden was the second coming<\/a> of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (and would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e500c752-424f-43fd-8d2b-def3230268bd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201csave the soul of America\u201d<\/a>), the reality is he\u2019s not even Bill Clinton. Clinton was the kind of politician who could make a deal with a hostile Congress, survive a sexual affair with an intern less than half his age, and still reign as a kingmaker for decades after finishing his second term. In contrast, D.C. Democrats quietly worry Biden might not live through a second term.<\/p>\n<p>So now they want to banish him and his distinctly unimpressive vice president, whom the voters (to their credit) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/03\/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left in last place<\/a> during the Democratic primaries.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re right to want to banish Biden, of course. A New York Times poll released Monday showed his job approval at 32 percent. That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/statistics\/data\/final-presidential-job-approval-ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lower than<\/a> Jimmy Carter when he left office, lower than Trump just after the Jan. 6 riot \u2014 and less than half of Clinton\u2019s approval when he left office in 1998. To Biden\u2019s near sole credit, he\u2019s still 8 points above where Richard Nixon was on his final week in office.<\/p>\n<p>The current occupant of the White House, however, isn\u2019t planning to leave office any time soon; he\u2019s still more than two years out from his next election. That means his approval matters a great deal, and in politics, as National Review\u2019s Jeff Blehar succinctly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EsotericCD\/status\/1546520849531998208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put it<\/a>, at 33 percent approval \u201cthere are no survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So now, the corporate media and Democratic establishment that picked the Democrat candidate, worked to install him as America\u2019s president, and virtually dictated his White House\u2019s policies are trying to sulk away and avoid blame for the decline. Now they\u2019ll point to his age and his cognitive decline on the front page of the Times. They\u2019ll discuss it once again on Twitter. But it\u2019s all just a game.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Biden is old and experiencing cognitive decay; he was two years ago when he was picked and everyone watching knew it. He\u2019s been in the limelight for literally 50 years, so we can all see the difference.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that the American regime ignored and hid this because they hated Trump enough they were willing to do anything \u2014 anything \u2014 to defeat him. They did this, and the hard reality is this isn\u2019t a Biden problem; it\u2019s a regime problem.<\/p>\n<p>So when his old friends in the party and the media try to eject his presidency, remember that they created it. They empowered it.<\/p>\n<p>Someday soon the president will leave the world stage, but they\u2019ll remain, still willing to do anything they need to get their way. Joseph R. Biden might be in office, but they\u2019re in charge \u2014 the regime that created him.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that. It will be important again.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">Christopher Bedford is a senior editor at The Federalist, a founding partner of RightForge, vice chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, a board member at The Daily Caller News Foundation and National Journalism Center, and the author of &#8220;The Art of the Donald.&#8221; His work has been featured in The American Mind, National Review, the New York Post and the Daily Caller, where he led the Daily Caller News Foundation and spent eight years. A frequent guest on Fox News and Fox Business, he was raised in Massachusetts and lives across the river from D.C. Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBedfordDC\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBiden, At 79, Shows Signs Of Age And Aides Fret About His Image,\u201d reads a headline on the front page of Sunday\u2019s New York Times. 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