The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Mainstream Media’s Everlasting Love Affair with Joe Biden

Starting point is 00:00:00 I'd like to look at Joe Biden's speech if I could for a moment. It was billed as his first post-presidential speech. I watched it twice, and then I compared the coverage in the Wall Street Journal. If you watch the speech, it's to tell you the truth quite embarrassing, and that is why some of former Biden aides said that they kind of cringe to see how Joe Biden has descended into confusion and chaos. But my point is this, the Wall Street Journal. The headline was that he attacks Trump. Trump accuses him of cutting Social Security.

Starting point is 00:00:32 The article said that Biden looked rested. That was just a complete distortion. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. I'd like to look at Joe Biden's speech if I could for a moment. It was billed as his first post-presidential speech, and he gave it in Chicago to an activist group that is trying to support. and help people who are disabled. It may or may not have actually been his first public speech,

Starting point is 00:01:14 but it was billed as such. But my interest is this. I watched it twice, and then I compared the coverage in the Wall Street Journal. If you watch the speech, it's to tell you the truth, quite embarrassing, and that is why some of former Biden aides said that they kind of cringe to see how Joe Biden has descended into conventional. confusion and chaos. He walked out to the podium when there was an entry music, and then he began to speak for 15 or 20 seconds while the music was going on. No one could hear him, and yet he didn't stop. Nobody said, Joe, we can't hear you. You're speaking. That was the introductory music. Then he continued, and traditionally a president, at least in the first year, an ex-president, does not attack. his successor. He immediately went in to a harangue about Donald Trump, and he did it in his typical

Starting point is 00:02:17 style. That is, it's kind of a projectionist mode where, as many people on the left, if they are guilty of something, they project that on to a target. So he was a full snaggle-puss, snarly-puss. He was angry, and he said, and he's going to cut salsas, I care. Donald Chinese and we've never been, but we need unity. So in other words, the man who at one point called half of Donald, half the country, Donald Trump's supporters garbage and has called them semi-fascist, ultra-mega, and earlier during campaigns he'd call them chumps and dregs. He was now saying that Donald Trump was divisive, and he was saying he was divisive, and he was calling for unity, why he was angry as he is often. Then he went in and said that Donald Trump is going to

Starting point is 00:03:13 destroy Social Security. Donald Trump has promised ad infinitum he is not going to touch Social Security. What he did say was he's going in with the Doge auditors to see, for example, why thousands of people who were born before 1920 are still on the Social Security rules. Are they getting money? Are they dead? Are they alive? Are people 90, 100, 110? That's something that's interesting. And then finally, Joe Biden said, and when I was young and I saw a bus of colored kids, colored because that's a term that nobody uses. It's considered offensive and it's consistent with what Joe Biden has said as president. He's called two of his important AIDS boys who are African American. I think he referred to Satchel Page, the great picture at one point as

Starting point is 00:04:14 colored. He remember in the Obama primary of 2008, he said he was the first clean and articulate. He bragged that Delaware at one point had been a slave state as if he was acquainted then with African bear in the issue. I could go on, put you all in slain. So it was a disastrous point. But my point is this. The Wall Street Journal, the headline was that he attacks Trump, accuses him of cutting Social Security. And he said that the article said that Trump looked rested, rested. That was just a complete distortion.

Starting point is 00:04:49 And when you start looking every single day as I'm doing, if it's tariffs, it's a disaster. If it's Doge, it's a disaster. If it's Ukraine, Trump is doing something wrong. He's favored Putin too much. It's a disaster. If the deportation mistakenly deported Mr. Garcia, there's no background about who Mr. Garcia really is. It's a disaster. Almost every article, it's like an itch or a twitch.

Starting point is 00:05:19 negative, negative, negative, negative. And then this is the news division that makes the headlines, but the columnists now are pretty much, especially the, and I like many of them, and so do you, but they're pretty much negative. They can't find a good thing to say. But yet when we look at the first 100 days, as we're going to talk about in a later video, border good. Effort to stop the Ukraine war, admirable. Middle East, Iran is back against the war. Energy. All these. things are good, but there's nothing there. Why are they doing this? I'll just finish with this observation. For many years, I wrote 20 years for the National Review magazine, and they got into the same frame that they were obsessed with Donald Trump and felt that he had been a disaster. This was

Starting point is 00:06:10 in 2015 and 16, 17, and they got obsessed with it. And before they knew it, they were criticizing him for positions they had once held. I hope the Wall Street Journal doesn't get into that frame of mind. The New York Post, which is also a Murdoch venue, has not. It's been pretty objective. But something's going on at the Wall Street Journal, and I fear that it's going to lose them thousands of subscribers. This is Victor Davis-Hansson for The Daily Signal.

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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Mainstream Media’s Everlasting Love Affair with Joe Biden

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