Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive
I damn near choked when New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote this about the Biden mess:
“It took the Democrats far too long to acknowledge and push back against what Americans could see with their own eyes … And, saddest of all, the man known for his decency, empathy, humility and patriotic spirit was poisoned by power … It is the oldest story in tragedy: hubris.
It wasn’t just Democrats who couldn’t acknowledge that Joe Biden was a diminished president; it was also you, Maureen. And even now, you downplay it by passing it off as … a mere “tragedy?”
Look, Joe Biden suspended the Democratic Party’s primary system. He made the Party synonymous with corrupt, self-serving governance. He fumbled the economy, the pandemic, foreign affairs, border security, and the non-political administration of justice. He failed to stand tall against the rise of antisemitism and to protect the integrity of girls’ sports. He drove voters of all ages, colors, and stripes out of the tent for the foreseeable future.
This is not to mention the wink-wink, nod-nod corruption he condoned during his entire career, spanning unholy interactions with the Communist Chinese government at Penn to his wheeling-and-dealing family, whom he had to pardon as he exited office for fear they’d later be held to account. What needed a pardon were those gawd-awful paintings his son Hunter passed off as $300,000 pieces of art. Calling Joe Biden a “decent, empathetic, and patriotic” man is wrong in more ways than we have time for in this essay.
No, the only way this was a “tragedy” is if you add “of Biblical proportions” to the end of it.
Biden was Pharaoh, the Democratic Party was Egypt, and voters were slaves escaping bondage. This was the universe calling down a lightning bolt from on high to rectify a great wrong that was in no small part facilitated by the legacy media. Every reporter, editor, and columnist at the New York Times who covered the White House during the Biden years ought to be fired.
It was THE story of the century. The New York Times missed it; the New York Times still can’t see it.
For example, reporter Jodi Rudoren interviewed the Times publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, on Sunday. Did she ask the boss about how in gawd’s green earth The Grey Lady could so totally muck up the coverage of the Biden years?
No, of course not.
Instead, the boss was pitched softballs about press freedom in repressive countries like China and Russia.
Maureen Dowd wrote that the American people could see the mental deterioration of President Biden. Why, Mr. Sulzberger, didn’t Ms. Dowd and your other columnists write about it more? Why didn’t your newspaper “fully and fairly” investigate? Why didn’t you demand his removal after his own Justice Department called him mentally incapable of standing trial for stealing top-secret documents?
I’ll tell you why. The New York Times is on a team. Everyone can see the jersey it wears.
Until the New York Times recognizes this fact, the Times will never get back on the road to being a solid, impartial newspaper when it comes to national American politics.
And that, dear readers, is a tragedy.
QATAR’S GIFT
The United States has accepted a 747 jetliner as a gift from the government of Qatar, the New York Times reports, and is also quick to write, without evidence, that “the gift” might have listening devices planted on it and also may be Qatar’s way of “trying to improperly influence Mr. Trump.”
What nonsense.
The idea that this is a “bribe” is ludicrous on its face. It’s a very public gift from one country to another. If it were a bribe, it’s the worst damn bribe ever.
The New York Times can’t be all that interested in exposing public graft, otherwise they would have written something — anything — about Joe Biden’s graft via his son’s shady dealings.
(Sherman R. Frederick is a longtime, Hall of Fame Nevada journalist. You can read more at shermanfrederick.substack.com.)
ONE MORE THING
