Pretending Biden Is Blameless on COVID
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As the bad news surges and throbs again about the coronavirus, you can easily sense the lack of political vitriol for this president. Joe Biden gets a free pass.
On CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Dec. 19, reporter Mark Strassmann solemnly marked “another milestone in mourning.” “Bells tolled Thursday for 800,000 Americans dead from the virus. That is almost the population of San Francisco. Roughly 1,200 Americans still die daily from the virus.” Nobody blamed Biden.
Instead, CBS preceded this dirge with a Biden lecture: “For the unvaccinated, we’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death, unvaccinated, for themselves, their families, and the hospital they’ll soon overwhelm.” Blame them, not me, he insists.
Some journalists explicitly held Biden blameless. On MSNBC, John Heilemann proclaimed, “We know the president is not responsible for this … We know presidents get blamed for things that they don’t deserve to get blamed for.”
But early in 2020, Heilemann said the exact opposite on the same channel
The Comcast boys jumped to blame Trump for every death as the toll began. On March 12, 2020, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell announced: “More people are sick in America tonight because Donald Trump is president. More people are dead and dying in America tonight because Donald Trump is president.”
Even last week, MSNBC regular Steve Schmidt was still blaming Republicans alone: “They have killed hundreds of thousands of people with the lies about a pandemic, about a disease that can be controlled.”
If it’s so controlled, then why hasn’t it stopped?
Leftist media outlets such as MSNBC spent 2020 treating COVID like it was easily fixable — if voters simply put Democrats in charge. Their complete lack of humility demonstrates that this was always politics first, science later.
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