The ongoing in-life eulogies of President Joe Biden, in the wake of his announced decision to not seek re-election, have veered into the ridiculous. A prime example is CBS’s John Dickerson’s lionization of Biden.
From listening to Dickerson, one would think he’s talking about George Washington in 1796, and not Joe Biden in 2024:
JOHN DICKERSON: You’ve gotta also create the conditions for the party and everyone to celebrate Joe Biden, who has just done something that the more they celebrate what he’s done, the more of a contrast they draw to Donald Trump. As Liz Cheney said, here is somebody giving up power, okay, somebody who their whole career was counted out, so it’s giving up power and moving against personal instinct, which is “I’m going to show ‘em when they count me out” and it’s worked for him. And that’s quite a contrast to Donald…
