{"id":2309110,"date":"2024-07-26T07:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-let-democrats-rewrite-joe-bidens-biography\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T07:11:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:11:58","slug":"dont-allow-democrats-to-alter-joe-bidens-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-allow-democrats-to-alter-joe-bidens-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Allow Democrats to Alter Joe Biden&#8217;s Story"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fdont-allow-democrats-to-alter-joe-bidens-story%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=2309110&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>The article critiques President Joe\u200d Biden&#8217;s tenure and legacy, presenting him as an \u200bineffective leader\u200b with a troubled history in politics. It begins by condemning the political media for\u200d not\u200b pressing Biden\u200d on his recent\u200d decisions and for instead writing favorable pieces about him. Highlights include Biden&#8217;s allegedly self-serving \u2063decision to withdraw from the 2024 \u2064race, with\u200c accusations\u2063 that he bowed to \u2064pressure from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-lincoln-project-execs-knew-of-weaver-allegations-in-march-before-big-donors-ponied-up\/\" title=\"Report: Lincoln Project Execs Knew of Weaver Allegations in March, Before Big Donors Ponied Up\">big donors<\/a>\u200c and the Democratic elite rather than out of principle.<\/p>\n<p>The author likens \u200cBiden&#8217;s exit from \u2064power to the historical figure Cincinnatus, arguing that\u200b Biden&#8217;s story is less\u200d about selflessness and more about personal failure, as he didn&#8217;t act in the interest of democracy when he could have allowed for a more open primary. The piece paints\u2063 Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-trump-didnt-overhaul-his-ukraine-peace-plan\/\" title=\"Trump did not revamp his Ukraine peace plan.\">political \u200ccareer<\/a> as marked by opportunism\u2063 and dishonesty, referencing his\u2062 early sycophantic relationships with \u2064segregationists and \u200chis failures during past\u200d presidential campaigns, including the infamous 1988 campaign marred by\u2062 plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-guardian-joe-biden-is-one-of-americas-most-unpopular-presidents\/\" title=\"The Guardian: Joe Biden Is One of America\u2019s \u2018Most Unpopular Presidents\u2019\">article contends<\/a> that Biden&#8217;s presidency should \u200dbe remembered as a failure, emphasizing \u200chis lack of consistency, integrity, and merit-based \u2064success in \u200cpolitics, as opposed to the idealization often perpetuated by sympathetic media narratives. the \u2063tone is critical, questioning the sincerity\u2063 of Biden&#8217;s actions and the media&#8217;s portrayal\u200d of his character and legacy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. should be remembered as a failed president, a cringy blowhard senator, perhaps&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/09\/the-secret-life-of-joe-biden\/\">the most shameless fabulist in American political history<\/a>, the patriarch of a shady family, and a preternatural liar who couldn&rsquo;t hold a single consistent principled position in his very long career.<\/p>\n<p><em>Of course<\/em> they&rsquo;re going to try to canonize him.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a week after breaking up with voters in a letter, Biden finally addressed the nation without bothering to explain&nbsp;<em>why&nbsp;<\/em>he abandoned the race. Doing so would have entailed admitting his declining mental and physical state. But, true to form, the president used the Oval Office, typically reserved for solemn or historic moments, to deliver another divisive partisan talk, insinuating that anyone who opposed Democrats was a threat to &ldquo;democracy.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Did the political media press the Biden camp on what the man had been doing the past week? Or what was said to him by Democrats to convince him to leave? No. They began writing hagiographies.<\/p>\n<p>After the speech, the Biden family posed for some legacy-building shots, and the media took the bait. &ldquo;A powerful photo. The hand toward his father&rsquo;s face,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/costareports\/status\/1816297727304647059\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;Robert Costa of The Washington Post about one picture of Joe with his son, renowned artist Hunter Biden. &ldquo;The eyes. Put aside politics and everything related for a moment, and viewed simply on a human level, you see two men, father and son, still at each other&rsquo;s side, more than a half-century since the darkness of Dec. 18, 1972.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ah,&nbsp;<em>the eyes<\/em>. Get a grip, man.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a normal thing for a political journalist to write. I&rsquo;m not really here to judge the moral core of a politician &mdash; not even ones who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/02\/politics\/joe-biden-seventh-grandchild-hunter-biden\/index.html\">refuse<\/a>&nbsp;to acknowledge their inconvenient grandchildren for four years. But the job of a journalist isn&rsquo;t to idealize those in power but to act as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/devils-advocate\">Devil&rsquo;s advocate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Costa&rsquo;s emotional projection and myth-building are being transposed onto one of the biggest mediocrities ever to live in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s done an unnatural thing &mdash; very rare in the annals of history &mdash; he stepped away from power and he did it in the interests of the country,&rdquo; Democrat Party operative David Axelrod&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1816266350240624675\">explained<\/a>&nbsp;after Biden withdrew from the 2024 race. A &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2024\/07\/behold-selflessness.html\">selfless act<\/a>&rdquo; was how virtually everyone on the left described the president&rsquo;s bowing out.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m sorry, Cincinnatus wasn&rsquo;t elbowed out of Rome by hedge funders and George Clooney. Biden stepped away from power because big donors closed their checkbooks, the media (which had been gaslighting us until the debate) turned on him, and every Democrat heavy hitter in the party asked him to leave. Cincinnatus, an exemplar of virtue and humility, returned to his modest farm &mdash; not a tony Rehoboth Beach home &mdash; by his own volition. The Bidens never sacrificed anything.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if Biden had put the cause of &ldquo;democracy,&rdquo; or even his own party&rsquo;s fortunes, above his own, he would have stepped aside months ago so Democrats could have an open primary.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the story of Cincinnatus might be apocryphal, much like the story of Biden&rsquo;s exemplary &ldquo;public service&rdquo; record. Because, really, is it &ldquo;public service&rdquo; if you go from being a middling lawyer to the patriarch of a family of shady influence-peddlers?<\/p>\n<p>Biden has always been a .200-hitter trying to bat clean-up his whole life. He won his first Senate race in Delaware in the middle of Watergate, and only because Richard Nixon convinced incumbent J. Caleb Boggs to unretire and run. 1972 was the first Senate election in which 18-year-olds could vote, so Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2019\/09\/12\/even-joe-biden-was-once-the-upstart\/\">relentlessly<\/a>&nbsp;attacked Boggs&rsquo; age (63). Thereafter, he basically ran for a House-sized congressional seat every six years until 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate, Biden, by his own admission, spent a chunk of the &rsquo;70s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/06\/21\/biden-civil-segregationists-ally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sucking up<\/a>&nbsp;to segregationists like James Eastland (&ldquo;Voice of the White South&rdquo;) and Herman Talmadge, so he could grab plum committee seats. Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/speaking-of-george-wallace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sought the praise<\/a>&nbsp;of racist George Wallace &mdash; lied about it, actually &mdash; and worried about his kids being swallowed up in a &ldquo;racial jungle.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>What a swell guy!<\/p>\n<p>Biden had one of the most disastrous major presidential campaigns in American history in 1988 &mdash; where he was caught fabricating stories about his upbringing and education and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/grabien.com\/story.php?id=233352\">insulting reporters<\/a>&nbsp;who dared ask him questions about it. Joe not only lifted segments of speeches from John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey but also plagiarized an entire speech, nearly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/09\/12\/us\/biden-s-debate-finale-an-echo-from-abroad.html\">verbatim<\/a>, from Welsh Labour politician Neil Kinnock because his own professional life was so uninspiring and unimpressive.<\/p>\n<p>Even after being caught, he continued to share imaginary events.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of his Senate career was spent zig-zagging and flip-flopping and lecturing people much smarter than he, while always landing exactly where the party was going. Biden helped turn once-civil Supreme Court confirmation hearings into smear-fests against conservative nominees. In 1986, the year before Biden became chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Antonin Scalia had been approved 98&ndash;0 by the Senate. The next year, Biden smeared Robert Bork, sinking his nomination. A few years later, he was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YaMtnEO5q1U\">&nbsp;embarrassing himself&nbsp;<\/a>explaining natural law to Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Biden would run for president again in 2008, famously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/biden-obama-articulate-quote\/\">calling<\/a>&nbsp;Barack Obama &ldquo;the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy&rdquo; while coming in fifth place, winning less than 1 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>No one should bemoan the fact that a C-average student somehow stumbled into power. But if political success were driven by merit, Biden would finally have been thrown onto the political scrap heap, his undistinguished career slowly fading from history. Instead, Obama, anxious about being portrayed as a radical leftist by the GOP, went searching for the most non-threatening, sycophantic &ldquo;moderate&rdquo; he could dig up to fill the veep spot. Biden answered the call.<\/p>\n<p>Joe was so bad at his job, Obama tried to discourage him from running for the presidency in 2020,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/08\/14\/obama-biden-relationship-393570\">reportedly<\/a>&nbsp;telling people to &ldquo;never to underestimate Joe&rsquo;s ability to f-ck things up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, not even Biden could f-ck up the 2020 presidential election. With no viable alternatives, the Democrat Party establishment rallied around Joe when it looked like a septuagenarian Trotskyite named Bernie Sanders might win the nomination. Running his campaign from his den during a once-in-a-century epidemic, under the protection of Praetorian Guard press, Biden beat Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Biden quickly adopted every far-left position imaginable. His presidency was a disaster. Even before the debate, Biden was rightly behind on virtually every major issue in every poll. But he&rsquo;s a Democrat. And Democrats fail upward, their legacies sanctified no matter how disgraceful and pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is leaving. He&rsquo;s an elderly man with a poor memory. Let him retire in peace. But don&rsquo;t let them rewrite history.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of six books&mdash;the most recent, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/the-rise-of-blueanon-david-harsanyi?variant=41551839232034\">The The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists<\/a><\/b>. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will likely be remembered as a president who failed, a pompous senator, and possibly the most brazen fabricator in American political history. He is also the head of a questionable family and a habitual liar who has never maintained a consistent principled stance throughout his lengthy career. Naturally, there will be efforts to glorify him. <\/p>\n<p>After a week of silence following his withdrawal from the race, Biden finally spoke to the nation but failed to explain his departure, which would have required acknowledging his deteriorating mental and physical health. Instead, he used the Oval Office\u2014a space typically reserved for significant addresses\u2014to deliver a divisive partisan speech, suggesting that anyone opposing Democrats posed a danger to &#8220;democracy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Did the political media question Biden&#8217;s team about his activities during that week or what prompted his exit? No, they began crafting glowing tributes. Following his speech, the Biden family posed for photos aimed at building their legacy, and the media eagerly complied. Robert Costa of The Washington Post commented on a photo of Joe with his son, Hunter Biden, calling it &#8220;a powerful photo&#8221; and urging readers to view it on a human level, despite the political context. <\/p>\n<p>This kind of emotional commentary is unusual for a political journalist. The role of a journalist is not to idealize those in power but to challenge them. Costa&#8217;s sentimental portrayal is being applied to one of the most mediocre individuals to occupy the White House. <\/p>\n<p>Democrat operative David Axelrod described Biden&#8217;s withdrawal from the 2024 race as a &#8220;selfless act,&#8221; claiming he stepped away from power for the good of the country. However, Biden&#8217;s exit was prompted by major donors pulling their support, the media turning against him, and pressure from influential Democrats for him to leave. Unlike Cincinnatus, who returned to his farm voluntarily, the Bidens have never made any real sacrifices. <\/p>\n<p>If Biden had truly prioritized &#8220;democracy&#8221; or his party&#8217;s success, he would have stepped aside months earlier to allow for an open primary. The narrative surrounding Cincinnatus may be as mythical as Biden&#8217;s supposed record of &#8220;public service.&#8221; Is it truly &#8220;public service&#8221; when one transitions from being an average lawyer to leading a family known for questionable influence? <\/p>\n<p>Biden has consistently underperformed, winning his first Senate race in Delaware during Watergate largely due to Nixon&#8217;s influence on his opponent. He capitalized on the new voting age of 18 by attacking the age of his opponent. Throughout his Senate career, he sought favor with segregationists to secure committee positions and made dubious claims about his past. <\/p>\n<p>His 1988 presidential campaign was marred by fabrications about his background, and he was caught plagiarizing speeches from prominent figures. Even after being exposed, he continued to share embellished stories. His Senate tenure was characterized by inconsistency and opportunism, often aligning with the prevailing party stance. <\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s 2008 presidential run was lackluster, and he was ultimately chosen as Obama&#8217;s running mate to avoid being seen as too radical. Obama even discouraged him from running for president in 2020, warning others not to underestimate Biden&#8217;s ability to create problems. <\/p>\n<p>Despite his shortcomings, Biden managed to win the 2020 election, largely due to a lack of viable alternatives and the Democratic establishment&#8217;s support. His presidency has been marked by a series of failures, and he has consistently lagged in public opinion polls. <\/p>\n<p>As he prepares to leave office, Biden is an elderly man with a fading memory. While he deserves a peaceful retirement, it is crucial to prevent a revisionist history of his presidency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2309111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Biden-.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,36286,36255,36288,36287],"class_list":["post-2309110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-joebiden","tag-mediabias","tag-politicaldebate","tag-politicalnarratives"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Biden-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309110","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}