There\u2019s no ducking the central fact \u2014 these are hard times in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The combination of domestic and foreign turbulence is creating a crises of confidence in the nation\u2019s leadership, making these days especially difficult for one group of Americans: the media people whose job is to shield Joe Biden from any and all blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talk about a tough assignment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately for the president, there is a creative cadre of bunco artists who can be counted on to see no evil when he throws open the southern border or when his extended family gets fat checks from foreign potentates and princelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Move along, nothing to see here, they proclaim, their eyes wide shut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These people used to be known as journalists but then came a man named Donald Trump and, by winning an election, caused them to lose their minds and morals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They responded by dividing the world into Trumps and anti-Trumps and declared the Trumps to be permanently ignorant and evil, with the anti-Trumps always virtuous and vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seven years later, monkeys typing produce more trustworthy reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s not to sneer at the considerable skill and strong stomachs required to try to make Biden look like a good president and an honest man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the concoctions absolving him are Pulitzer-level work, every bit as accurate as the Russia, Russia, Russia stories that earned journalism\u2019s top prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although it takes a cold heart to ignore the suffering caused by Biden\u2019s policies, it requires real talent to spin his mammoth failure as success and blatant corruption as a Republican myth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take the border debacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sensible people know this was intentional because Biden took office determined to break the system of restraint Trump built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To do less would render him an accomplice to evil and racism and Islamophobia and white supremacy and, well, Hitler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So Biden ended the agreement with Mexico, stopped building the wall and promised his administration would be kinder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Human traffickers, drug cartels, foreign agents and poor people from around the world took that as an invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Belatedly, Biden said don\u2019t come, the border is not open, but nobody believed him because it wasn\u2019t true, and so they came in vast caravans and still they come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The number is as many as 6 million, and that was before the end of Title 42 exclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now most cities in America are awash in those claiming asylum, a ruse that will let most stay forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cost is unfathomable, yet activists already are pressing for work papers and citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next up \u2014 Democratic Party enrollment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brazen broadsheets
If your job is to keep Biden in office and immune from blame, how do you spin this unprecedented mess?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some prize-worthy examples present themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Washington Post, in a smokescreen that was especially resourceful, painted a portrait of a president frustrated and angry that his staff hadn\u2019t solved the border problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen Biden would have explosions, and he did have a bunch of them, he\u2019d say: \u2018D\u2014 it, you haven\u2019t told me anything different from what you told me last week,\u2019 \u201d a former official \u2014 anonymously, of course \u2014 told the paper still resting on its Watergate laurels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lest readers think Joe is crabby and too old, the official added, \u201cThen 10 minutes later, he\u2019d say: \u2018Look, I\u2019m sorry, I know everybody is trying.\u201d \u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For public relations, that sequence is pure gold. In two sentences, we learn Biden cares deeply about the border, and is so brimming with decency he apologizes to underlings for scolding them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a mensch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank God he\u2019s president and not that Bad Orange Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The New York Times took a different tact in its border coverup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The headline on Friday\u2019s lead story called the historic migrant surge \u201cA Wave Driven by Factors Beyond U.S. Control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Gray Lady\u2019s list of culprits range from the pandemic to the Russian invasion of Ukraine to Central American violence, adding up to what one Democrat labeled a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The message is clear: Don\u2019t blame Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It could have happened to any president so it\u2019s not fair to expect the buck to stop on his desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story is a classic ploy of the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When a Democrat is failing, it\u2019s always because of factors beyond control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The New York version involves the claim that the city, when it\u2019s failing under a Democrat mayor, is \u201cungovernable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When a Republican succeeds, it\u2019s luck or police brutality or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As for protecting Biden from GOP probes into his family\u2019s corrupt influence peddling, the media\u2019s most consistent play is to raise the bar to ridiculous heights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHouse GOP\u2019s Biden investigations sputter out of the gate,\u201d was a Politico headline last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In early May, amid reports Hunter Biden might be indicted, the outlet created a sob story about the poor president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeople close to Biden still worry about the personal toll it will take on a father who has already felt anguish about a son\u2019s struggles amid a long history of family tragedy,\u201d Politico weeped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd they wonder how long he can compartmentalize personal anger with the attacks on Hunter and the political calculation that he\u2019s better off not responding to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All that\u2019s fit to spin
Did you spot the trick?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of laying out Hunter\u2019s likely crimes and the GOP probe, which officials say is about the president\u2019s role in the schemes, the story cleverly turns the president into an innocent victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well done, Politico!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once again, however, it\u2019s tough to top the Times when it comes to partisan coverups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The secret of its success is practice, practice, practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The paper launched its Biden protection scheme this cycle with a hatchet job on Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, saying he has \u201ccutthroat instincts\u201d and is \u201ca methodical and transactional political operator, willing to go to great lengths to crush his adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right, and Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were nice guys who finished first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later, when Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said a whistleblower claims the FBI has a document alleging Joe Biden engaged in a quid pro quo for money and Comer issued a subpoena to the FBI, the Times ignored the story completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talk about cutthroat instincts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then last week, when Comer\u2019s panel laid out a roadmap showing millions of foreign dollars flowing through a confusing welter of limited liability companies before being distributed to various Biden family members, the Times moved the goal posts and all but declared the probe a failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c4-Month GOP Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President,\u201d the headline blared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oddly, I don\u2019t recall the Times declaring the Russia probe a flop after four months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite this media obfuscation and dishonesty, I believe Biden is headed for a fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comer & Company are playing hardball like Nancy Pelosi Democrats and, most important, they have the facts on their side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patience and smart work will be rewarded with a mother lode of proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n