Corporate TV journalists are so thrilled with President Biden’s decision to step aside that they’ve begun comparing his “selfless” act to George Washington’s choice not to seek re-election in 1796.
Since last night, legacy media have been falling all over themselves to applaud Biden for the supposedly heroic decision to exit a presidential race in which he stood no chance of winning. Gone are the worrisome reports of his creeping mental fatigue and infirmity; he’s transformed quite literally overnight from an incompetent candidate to a valiant savior of “democracy.”
It’s worth noting that when searching for clips of people comparing Biden to George Washington, we noticed a fairly telling pattern. On CNN, almost everyone making this absurd comparison was an elected Democrat, whereas on MSNBC, the comparisons were coming from the network’s…
