OPINION:
If Bud Light had hired The New York Times to spin coverage for them, all of America would still be pissing rainbows. Unfortunately for the company whose product tastes like it was produced by its team of Clydesdales, The New York Times is busy running a propaganda campaign on behalf of President Biden.
In a story marking the commander in chief’s onstage wipeout while handing out diplomas at the Air Force Academy, the administration’s chief disinformation outlet wrote an extraordinary piece about Mr. Biden that would have embarrassed Stalin. If Pravda had written such a piece, Vladimir Putin would have had the writers killed — for slavish obsequiousness.
Or maybe on suspicion of wanting to sleep with him.
Two of the four authors of the propaganda piece are longtime Washington reporters going back decades, proving just how long The New York Times has been working on behalf of the government — as well as doing hit jobs against enemies of the government. The newspaper famous for printing the Pentagon Papers exposing government lies about the Vietnam War has become a covert arm of the CIA.
“Inside the Complicated Reality of Being America’s Oldest President,” was the headline, apparently written by Franz Kafka.
In other words, you may see a president who calls on dead people in public, tries shaking hands with invisible ghosts, does not know where he is, cannot complete sentences and does a face plant at what is supposed to be an inspiring military exercise designed to instill fear in our enemies around the world. But really, it’s just “complicated.”
Mr. Biden, The New York Times assures us, is “sharp and wise at critical moments, the product of decades of seasoning, able to rise to the occasion even in the dead of night to confront a dangerous world.”
Indeed, nothing confronts a dangerous world like a geriatric spill on live television around the world.
Even more hilarious is the paper’s description of Mr. Biden’s glaring frailties.
They describe Mr. Biden as “a little slower, a little softer, a little harder of hearing, a little more tentative in his walk, a little more prone to occasional lapses of memory in ways that feel familiar to anyone who has reached their ninth decade or has a parent who has.”
Yes, America, it’s just a minor, momentary senior moment. Everything is just fine.
Mr. Biden sparks a war in Ukraine with his crazy pro-Putin energy policies, jacks inflation to historic highs and fans the flames of violent crime around the country. And the indelible picture around the world is Mr. Biden unable to walk across a stage in clear weather.
In truth, The New York Times story isn’t even about Mr. Biden. As with everything these people write, it’s all about Donald Trump, who is clearly not “the product of decades of seasoning” in Washington — which, of course, is precisely why he got elected in 2016.
It’s also why The New York Times and the entire establishment media worked so feverishly to overturn the 2016 election as soon as Mr. Trump won it.
Even with Mr. Trump out of office, they cannot let it go. With all of the problems in America and around the world caused by Mr. Biden, these same media stooges — including Never Trump Republicans — are right now obsessed with something nice Mr. Trump said about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un after his country was permitted to join the World Health Organization.
Mr. Trump didn’t let North Korea into their global health club. That was Mr. Biden.
Mr. Trump, if you recall, actually withdrew the United States from the WHO over its cataclysmic failures to handle the pandemic and investigate its origins in China.
Anyway, the most important thing going on in the world right now involving Kim Jong Un is that he is playing the clip of America’s commander in chief wiping out at an Air Force ceremony for his people while preparing his next nuclear test.
Not that you will read about that in The New York Times. They are too busy whitewashing the Biden presidency.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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