AMAC Exclusive – by Pat Conroy
Things just keep getting worse for Joe Biden. According to new polling released by Gallup, Biden’s job approval rating has fallen a whopping six points to 43%, the lowest of his fledgling presidency. “For the first time, a majority, 53%, now disapproves of Biden’s performance,” Gallup reports. But even worse for Biden is that, as the public has turned on him, so too has the usual last line of defense for Democrats – the media. In recent weeks, normally loyal media voices have suddenly gone rogue, daring to criticize and hold the Biden administration accountable for their failures.
One of the most shocking examples came from former Democrat campaign staffer and current host of MSNBC’s “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd. During a media appearance last week, Todd skewered Biden’s “credibility crisis” when previewing his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. “He’s got a lot of work to do. The UN speech, look, he’s got some credibility issues on the world stage. [He has] to make sure that people still view America as a, not just a stable democracy, but a competent leader of the free world right now,” Todd said.
Those comments from a usually loyal media ally took direct aim at one of Biden’s central campaign platitudes that America would be “back” and beloved again by the international community if he was elected. However, following the abysmal Afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 American service members dead, failed drone strikes that killed innocent children instead of terrorists, and France recalling its ambassador to the U.S. for the first time in history, even the left-wing media can’t deny that America is in a far weaker global position than when President Trump left office.
The reviews of Biden’s U.N. speech from his favorite liberal outlets were equally harsh. The New York Times pointed out how Biden likes to bizarrely pretend the calamity unfolding recently is disconnected from his direct actions. “He [Biden] made only scant mention of the global discord his own actions have stirred, including the chaotic American retreat from Afghanistan as the Taliban retook control 20 years after they were routed,” the New York Times recounted.
The hyper-liberal magazine Slate also took Biden to task over his hollow speech which was filled with cognitive dissonance: “Still, Biden couldn’t drown out the hubbub over America’s actions—Biden’s actions—of the past several weeks. It wasn’t the actions themselves that caused rancor… rather, it was that Biden announced the moves without first consulting the allies, whose central importance he was now lauding before most of the world’s heads of state.” It appears no amount of apocalyptic climate change rhetoric or other progressive gobbledygook that filled the rest of Biden’s speech could distract from his clear record of failure, something even the corporate media could not cover up.
One topic unsurprisingly left out of Biden’s UN speech was the raging crisis at the southern border, which the media has also zeroed in on recently. MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle questioned Vice President Kamala Harris Monday for her absence during the ongoing crisis on the southern border despite being appointed the administration’s ‘border czar.’ “How about the message from our Vice President?” Ruhle asked. “Where is she? She was supposed to be in charge of all of these migration issues.” That question has been posed for months by Republican lawmakers and it has remained unanswered.
It is both striking and significant that members of what Trump dubbed ‘MSDNC’ (MSNBC) are turning on the Biden-Harris administration. In a complete 180 to the hysterical outrage over the Trump administration’s strong approach to border security, MSNBC commentators like Chuck Todd are now admitting the current administration’s immigration policies are a “magnet” for illegal migration.
Even Democrat politicians are admitting his policies are an abject failure. Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat Congresswoman from Hawaii and 2020 presidential candidate, did not mince words in her criticism of the ongoing Biden border crisis: “The Biden/Harris open-door policy has been a disaster. It needs to end now,” Gabbard tweeted. “The main beneficiaries of open borders are the gangs, cartels, and human traffickers. The Trump policy of having people wait on the other side of the border worked and needs to be reinstated.”
But before lauding the media for finally displaying a semblance of integrity, keep in mind one major factor – the calendar. We are only through eight months of the Joe Biden’s presidency, which means there’s still more than 13 months before the midterms. The media’s deranged coverage of President Trump the last four years, consistently unfair treatment of past Republican presidents and lawmakers, and shameless willingness to cover for any Democrat mistakes and shortcomings should not be forgotten merely because of a few weeks of semi-honest coverage of President Biden. It seems highly unlikely that the mainstream media plans to permanently abandon Biden now.
For all their deficiencies, the media understands how to effectively manipulate enough people to have a significant impact on political outcomes. One possible explanation for the media’s coverage of Biden could be that they are planting the seeds of a comeback story that may reflect well on Democrats heading into the midterms. After knocking Biden down for a few months, the media may then artificially prop him up in the months leading up to the midterm elections, creating a false “comeback” narrative that energizes the Democratic base in 2022.
It’s also possible that the mainstream media, whose first interest is always self-preservation, simply recognizes that Biden’s failures were too big and too obvious to cover up any longer without completely exposing their own dishonesty and thus losing the confidence of the few viewers they have left. If this is the case, it’s likely that they plan to weather the storm and resume favorable coverage of Biden once it seems politically expedient to do so.
Regardless, Biden still remains in treacherous political waters, and if Democrats hope to have any chance of retaining their majority in 2022 – and not making Biden an effective lame duck president two years into his four year term – they are going to need their allies in the media to fall back in line and faithfully push their agenda once again.
Pat Conroy is Washington, D.C.-based political strategist.
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Well, I hope this is not a criticism of the critics, because for once, they’ve got it right. Does anyone want to address the last 30-odd years of bad foreign policy decisions? We need to stand up to this administration and if the media gets on board? Fan-bloody-tastic!!! This is the shot in the arm that we need in order to, hopefully, clear out what the last eight months have done to us….. We can turn this around. Together.
Or maybe the Media knows something about Dementia Joe’s true condition, and they know he won’t be around for the Midterms. In this case, they are preparing the ground for the Harris presidency, and want to make sure she has a “honeymoon period” right before the Midterm Elections. Harris can reverse some of Biden’s disasters upon taking power. If they can engineer President Harris to have popularity above 50% in Nov 2022, they might save their control of House and Senate.
Total incompetence, I remember all the way back to Truman, the only one close is, Carter. I pray for my Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren. MAGA
It may be too little, too late, but it does appear that Progressive’s in the press are beginning to realize that if Socialism actually does become a way of life through government control in the U.S., their freedom of speech is doomed forever. There is no way the media will be able to criticize a Socialist or Communist controlled U.S.
I predicted before the election that Biden would not finish out his term. In fact, I thought he’d already be gone by now, and probably the only reason he isn’t is because Harris is turning out to be such a disaster (yeah, I know; what a shocker). This is probably the beginning of the process to make America comfortable with the idea of removing him from office, most likely through the 25th amendment (it would be the least politically damaging to the left).
They are ready to push him out for Kamala
They can sell you a more immediate replacement of him easier that way.
They ping pong back and forth on him. One minute they kiss his butt and the other they complain. Never trust the media.
WHY?? That is not a smart question. Anyone with their eyes open all along should be able to see and know why. He’s a bumbling fool, his wife wanted to be in the White House, she knows and sees his mental issues daily and should not have allowed him and the democrats to put him out there.
While there are some good reasons mentioned in the article and in the comments about why the main stream media is turning on the Biden administration, I think two of the major factors are that they are diverting attention away from the indictment that was handed down last week about Russia and the fake dossier as well as the story that Hunter’s laptop issue were in fact true. If these stories gets airtime and attention, it will be shown that the media was in on the lies the whole time. So if they can get you to worry about something else, then they won’t have to deal with the fact that they duped the American people for years. It’s all about controlling the narrative and spinning things in a way that best helps them and those they support.
WHY ARE SLOEJOE AND HIS INCOMPETENT ADMINISTRATION BEING CRITICIZED? LET ME GUESS. THEY DESERVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did they run outta things to say about Trump?
The Council on Foreign relations has decided that Biden has outlived his usefulness. They are the ones pulling the strings. They are the intimidators. I see very little criticism of them on any media outlet. They are the Elites of America trying to control the world. Robert Gates, former CIA head and Secretary of Defense since 1993 is the one of the CFR members pulling the strings. He is criticizing Biden on the Afghan withdrawal when he is second in command of the military. Much of the Afghan debacle belongs to him!
The Media is attacking Joe Biden ?
It’s a good thing the Media is not our US Military , the Enemy wouldn’t
t even know we exis.
If the Media wanted to attack Joe Biden He wouldn’t be the Asterisk in Chief right now and Hunter Biden would be safely behind Bars.
How about this instead ?
‘The Media is the Enemy ! ‘
God bless are country and are people we need to stand united as one.
I tend to agree with Chuck L. two statements below
100 % of the people I know think Biden is a POS!!! What polls are you dumasses listening to!
Recently, Dick Morris, in his recent program spoke of the self-destruction now beginning to take place within the democratic realm. Much like cannibals, they are beginning to devour their own…turning on one another in small ways, that will, in his opinion, become more pronounced….not unlike a democratic civil war….with the progressive extremists pitted against the moderates with the moderates increasing in number as the party veers further to the left, leaving it’s own followers in the dust. Perhaps Morris has an eye on things some of us have not seen. Could this be the case? Might we expect the dems to begin to fight amongst themselves and loose their grip on their socialist agenda? Not a far fetched idea if you ask me. Maybe the band is beginning to hit some sour notes, and some of the dancers are missing a step here and there……could be. The real question is this….are the republicans and conservatives seeing it happen and forming some strategy to take advantage of the inner crisis?…or are they as lame now as they have been in this past several decades? I watch and wait.
As the original question askd “why ios the media attacking Joe Biden now?”
This ios the softening up barrage getting us ready for Pres Harris–by the New Year…
You missed a third possible reason for the media slamming Biden – maybe they are laying the groundwork for his incompetency hearings so that Harris can step in and save the day, leading up to the mid-terms. Many never thought Biden would stay in office for long and there were ulterior motives at play.
Stupidity recognizing stupidity?
You know I have been on here before. Please excuse me but I’m mad as hell. I sit here writing this and it disturbs me to no end what is happening to our country. If you are as upset about it as I am don’t you had a voice after all it’s we the people that should have a say so don’t you think? If you think so you need to look up convention of states and get involved. I have and I feel at least I am working to make a difference. Our framers of our constitution were a bunch of brilliant minds and if you read article V you will see why. They predicted this very thing would happen and how to prevent it. How to restore our county back so our children grandchildren and on and on could have a free society and be a light on a hill. Please check it out and be part of that light instead of a complainer and do nothing. The choice is yours. May God bless you and yours.
Nah, they have the machines
The media know there is no coming back for Biden. They knew he was demented when his campaign started and know his dementia is progressing. They are trying to put distance between themselves and Biden, the disaster they had a major hand in creating. They are doing the same thing with CNN and Fredo Cuomo. It won’t work.
Because they know how stupid Joe Biden makes everyone look and they do not want people to think they are as stupid as our president. But the media is foolish and embarrassing to listen to. They are as bad as Biden. OR worse………….if possible.
Seems I recall a quote from a popular DemocRat from a long past era (Will Rogers). Something like “All I know is what I read in the Papers!” I think the public is overwhelmingly beginning to realize that old saw just doesn’t cut it in these times because the Media has become primarily a propaganda tool for the DemonRats.
Why is the Media suddenly critical in their reporting on Joe Hidin’ Biden?? The news media has begun to sense that Biden has NOT floating their boat … he is tending to repeat the fate of the Titanic. And the news media needs to jump ship … and they know it.
Fake news is trying to cover their a_ _ . They need viewers. I guess they feel they need to start bad mouthing Biden to appease those Democrats who agree with the rest of the nation. Too late, too start now. You will never convince people to watch your news programs again. You have spewed nothing but lies since President Trump became President. You doubled down on the COVID-19 BS without any investigation at all. In fact, you have not investigated any story you have reported on. Why any American would believe you is beyond me!
It wants to last long…they are bought and paid for with all the other corrupt government officials…it saddens me…I can even get the truth from local news anymore…if I want the truth…it has to be downloaded and paid for…but it’s with it…we must keep the faith…
ha they are just trying to act like they are annoyed! the truth is any one with common sense can’t help but notice biden is a putz
“Why Is the Media Suddenly Criticizing Joe Biden?” Simple…they want him gone. he’s a complete embarrassment and is sullying the dim product (as if it isn’t disgraceful enough.). He has zero chance of reelection…not that he was elected this time. The media controls culture and politics is downstream of culture. The media controls the dims far more than the other way around. Of course, ultimately, the globalist “elites”, including the ccp, control the media and they want this moron to go away…to the old, unelected presidents home.
Criticizing the crooked, Socialist-Communist media is a good short term strategy for them. Like the article said, then back to the same old same old. The Dem-Social-Communists are more aggressive and clever than our side. We need take some moves from their playbook and turn the tables on them instead of rolling over like frightened kids being bullied in a NYC schoolyard. They ain’t gonna like us no matter what so stop playing footsie with them.
BTW, where I Iive on Staten Island, NYC, the only usually reliable Republican area in NYC except for 2 neighborhoods in Brooklyn, is undergoing a reapportionment gerrymander due to the census losses in NY. They want to split up the borough so we can’t elect a Republican to the House of Reps.!!
“One possible explanation for the media’s coverage of Biden could be that they are planting the seeds of a comeback story that may reflect well on Democrats heading into the midterms. After knocking Biden down for a few months, the media may then artificially prop him up in the months leading up to the midterm elections, creating a false “comeback” narrative that energizes the Democratic base in 2022.” This is EXACTLY what the communist propaganda media is doing…WAKE UP, PEOPLE!
Must Have got some intelligent people in the media all of a sudden.
It is about time that people BEGIN to see the TOYAL INCOMPETENCE of this entire administration and it’s the best the dems could come up with!
Come on folks. Biden has 3 more years to screw things up. Theres so much,it’s doubtful he will get it all done. HE’s messed up good so far, give him a hand. Maby he will put a stop to all the hurried kanes we have. ,Kyle L.
if you really want to stop the media, suffer a little and get a list of what the media is supported by and BOYCOTT those places do not watch their channels on tv do not read their magazines, don’t buy any book by their employees. in shout cut their throats financially.starve the worms. no money no channel xyz period.
go to Parler, they will allow you to rant.
Why is everybody even commenting or surprised at all this crap? THIS is what happens when an election is hi-jacked. THIS is what happens when the speaker of what used to be The People’s House drives herself criminally insane because of abject hatred for everything she disagrees with. (Good on ya, Donald Trump – you’re still living in her head rent free). And, THIS is what happens when NO ONE in our representative republic respects tax payers.
THERE IS AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE. NEVER, EVER, TRUST A liberal
He’s been on the wrong side of policy for 47 years- What were folks expecting?
Because they know joebama and the democrats are failing miserably and the media hopes to save face a little , their bias is being exposed.
The media ,like the democrats are self serving,dishonest and greedy.
Because even that are realizing what a lying, spineless coward he really is!!
They are finding out what we knew last November.
The Lamestream media has finally figured out that 2 plus 2 does not equal 3 but actually equals 4. They have lost almost all credibility with the American public and are desperately trying to save themselves. They know Joe Biden is not going to be in the White House next term and things are going to be vastly different in 2022. Like (Democ)rats on a sinking ship.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the LSM now APPEARS to be turning on Xiden b/c they want those not on their side of the fence to let their guards down, start trusting them so they let slip some info &/or infiltrate them so that the LSM (and their REAL backers) can gather info to use against them… Standard tactic of radicals.
The media is making fun of Dementia Joe because they realize he is an absolute moron whacko//Its time to get as far away from this idiot so they are not connected for next years political races in the House and Senate//Just think buddies to strangers in just 8 months==sounds like a marriage to me//
The mainstream liberal media is also on life support. They have lost every shred of credibility so this opportune moment to confirm the obvious will have no lasting effect on anyone with an IQ above 30. They cannot salvage this disaster. When the American people see their borders overrun and invaded with uneducated, unhealthy, criminals, and drains on our social programs, they know who allowed this to happen. When we went from being energy independent with affordable gas and oil and now are energy depend again with constantly rising energy prices, we know who allowed this to happen. When we see our country and economy shut down over a man made pandemic and are seeing our rights stripped away to benefit big Pharma and a few stakeholders, we know who is responsible for for this. And there is nothing to media can do to change these facts.
I have always believed Joe was to senile to hold office and that he would last, at best, one year before being removed from office. So why is the media turning on him? Simple, it’s been 8 months and its time to start laying the foundation for Joe’s removal from office and the ascension of Kamala. God help us.