{"id":1562324,"date":"2022-07-20T07:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562324"},"modified":"2022-07-20T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:50:42","slug":"america-is-struggling-because-of-biden-not-the-other-way-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-is-struggling-because-of-biden-not-the-other-way-around\/","title":{"rendered":"America Is Struggling Because Of Biden \u2014 Not The Other Way Around"},"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\">24<\/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%2Famerica-is-struggling-because-of-biden-not-the-other-way-around%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=1562324&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>Perry Bacon Jr. \u2014 which is the name of a Washington Post writer, not a sandwich at Arby\u2019s \u2014 has managed to have the dumbest excuse to date for why Joe Biden\u2019s approval numbers are somewhere between bad and \u201cget this man out of the White House right now before he kills us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/07\/17\/media-bias-role-biden-approval-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on Monday<\/a>, presumably with a straight face, that a major factor driving the president\u2019s approval ratings to lower than Donald Trump\u2019s is that the news media\u2019s coverage has been \u201canti-Biden.\u201d He actually said that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first few months of 2021, many in the media focused on narratives that seemed like they could turn into big anti-Biden stories but didn\u2019t pan out,\u201d wrote Perry. By \u201canti-Biden stories,\u201d he meant the few times reporters asked the president why vaccines were so slow to distribute and whether he planned to do anything to stem the tide of obscene numbers of migrants illegally crossing the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s apparently \u201canti-Biden\u201d to inquire whether he actually plans to do anything about our most urgent problems.<\/p>\n<p>But, Perry said, it was the disastrous and fatal withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that <em>really<\/em> did Biden in with the press. \u201cAfghanistan was an important turning point in media coverage for two reasons,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOne, it provided journalists the big anti-Biden story that I think many of them were desperate to find. And it drove down Biden\u2019s popularity with the public, giving the media justification for even more coverage that cast the president as struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes! Remember the days of yore when the media were so obviously \u201cdesperate\u201d to find a reason to kneecap Biden. The memories are fond.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s preposterous. Even now, media coverage of the Biden administration is relegated to one-minute news briefs about the president and Kamala Harris\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/14\/stop-trying-to-rehab-affirmative-action-hire-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest screw-ups<\/a>, only between hour-long segments about the Jan. 6 House hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Perry wrote that he would like for the press to \u201ccover Biden more positively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey guys, could you put a positive spin on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/13\/another-month-of-historic-inflation-means-its-time-to-stop-believing-experts-who-say-the-economy-is-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">historic inflation<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/06\/biden-doubles-down-on-forcing-americans-to-fund-europes-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new war<\/a> that Biden is marching us toward, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/07\/yes-bidens-war-on-the-oil-and-gas-industry-is-driving-shortages-and-high-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record-high gas prices<\/a>? That would be swell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biden isn\u2019t where he is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/07\/joe-biden-is-not-a-victim-he-is-the-aggressor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by a stroke of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/07\/joe-biden-is-not-a-victim-he-is-the-aggressor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bad<\/a> luck<\/a>. His approval rating isn\u2019t embarrassingly low because reporters aren\u2019t giving him enough credit. And his own party\u2019s voters aren\u2019t on their knees praying he doesn\u2019t run for a second term because journalists haven\u2019t properly shown them the silver lining.<\/p>\n<p>Biden isn\u2019t the victim of an awful press. They\u2019re the ones who sold him to America. We\u2019re the victims of the media and his presidency.<\/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\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-comments mt-30 mt-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-comments-container d-flex flex-column align-items-center py-30\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fdrlst-mark.svg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-20\" alt=\"The Federalist logo eagle mark\" \/>    <\/p>\n<p>Unlock commenting by joining the Federalist Community.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/plans\/pricing\/\" class=\"btn btn-on-white\">Subscribe<\/a>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perry Bacon Jr. \u2014 which is the name of a Washington Post writer, not a sandwich at Arby\u2019s \u2014 has managed to have the dumbest excuse to date for why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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-1562324","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\/1562324","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=1562324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562324\/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=1562324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}