As corporate media and White House staffers ran interference for President Joe Biden’s failings, heaping praise on his gaffe-laden trip to Europe, the left continued to discover new hypocritical lows to sink to as they lauded his message of unity for the West which they once labeled as “racist” when President Donald Trump said it.
BizPacReview The hint about initiating regime change was promptly walked back and mostly ignored by the media as they continued to chronicle Biden’s actions with historic juxtapositions before the dust could settle in his wake.
For instance, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin likened the address in Poland to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan speaking before the Brandenburg Gate.
Sometimes, even the liberal journalists at ABC, CBS and NBC can’t even fix the latest gaffe from the President. But not everyone has given up. CBS correspondent Mark Knoller absurdly tweeted this on Saturday:
Memo to CBS: The Regan White House didn’t have to come out and say, “Please disregard what the President said about the Berlin Wall. He wants to keep it up.”
But such repeated declarations like “the West is now stronger and more united than it has ever been” by Biden, were once not so glowingly covered when Trump was issuing them five years early.
Actually speaking in front of the Brandenburg Gate rather than the Royal Castle in Warsaw, as Biden’s speech was, Trump honed in on the importance of Poland with respect to the NATO alliance and curried immense favor from the Poles in attendance.
Crowd in #Poland chants “Donald Trump! Donald Trump!” (Driving Liberals Crazy & I Love it!) pic.twitter.com/9uCxNgPi50
— Kevin W (@kwilli1046) July 6, 2017
President Trump had chosen Poland as the site for his speech because of its importance on the front lines of the rivalry between NATO and Russia. He declared to the world:
“We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent,” Trump told the crowd on July 6, 2017, according to the White House transcripts.
“We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes – including Syria and Iran – and to instead join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization itself,” he ominously continued.
“Meanwhile,” Joel Pollak wrote at Breitbart, “Biden is being praised by the media for saying what Trump said – and doing so after Russia has already invaded a pro-western European country.” “Had the media actually listened to what Trump said about the need to unite in defense of the West, rather than projecting their racial obsessions onto him,” Pollak concluded, “perhaps the West would have been prepared for the challenge.”
Instead of praising the speech for its unifying message against an aggressive “butcher” like Putin united with corrupt regimes, Trump was decried as pushing a racist “alt-right” agenda.
The Atlantic’s Peter Beinart wrote at the time, “The West is a racial and religious term. To be considered Western, a country must be largely Christian (preferably Protestant or Catholic) and largely white.”
Eugene Robinson, a colleague of Rubin’s, considered the speech a relic of days gone by, stating it “might have been appropriate when Britannia ruled the waves and Europe’s great powers held dominion over ‘lesser’ peoples around the globe.”
“It had nothing useful to say about today’s interconnected world in which goods, people and ideas have contempt for borders,” Robinson added.
Calling his piece for the New Republic, “An International Brotherhood of White Grievance,” Jeet Heer wrote, “Such rhetoric is meant to conjure blood-and-soil nationalism. Here, Trump is defining the West not based on ideals like democracy and liberty, but atavistic loyalties to territory and shared kinship.”
Then there’s the different reactions of American soldiers to President Joe Biden compared to then-President Donald Trump that is drawing some comparisons online.
MSN Richard Grenell, the former acting director of National Intelligence under Trump, posted photos on social media Friday which show very different reactions to the two presidents. In addition to the photos, Grenell adds the caption, “They aren’t even standing. They know.”
However, the other accompanying photo shows the former president, reportedly in 2017, with a number of soldiers. Trump can be spotted shaking hands with one of them as several others crowd around Trump with their arms stretched out reaching for the former president.
In response to the photos, one person posted that there were “no resounding chants of USA! USA! USA!” and that “we had a President once that was revered and loved by the military.”
Another person implied that members of the military are not fans of the current president writing, “Huge difference…HUGE! They loved Trump!”
A third individual, in her response, claimed that Biden is “weak.” She wrote: “Listen to Sleepy Joe, not my President. He’s mumbling. Weak. The entire world knows. Cheated!!”
Another person who claimed to be a retired Marine officer said the difference in the photos was “shocking.” “As a retired Marine officer this is shocking to me. They would all be on their feet if a 2nd Lieutenant walked in the room. Either the discipline of the US armed forces is in extreme decline or they have blatant disrespect for this man,” he wrote.
Az gal says
We haven’t heard “Fighting against radical Islam” since Trump. Now we have in office a doddering old fool.
Linda Rivera says
George Soros puppet-Obama puppet Biden, and their US regime are Fighting for Radical Islam.
Rebel Patriot says
Bozo Biden should have walked in wearing a clown suit to see the troops. After all, he is a clown and the troops would applaud and laugh at the clown in chief. Then, all his gaffes would really make sense.
Hartmut says
I’m just baffled what incoherent babble exits Biden’s mouth sometimes where afterwards he has to back off from. Especially his public personal tirades on Russian president which are of no help at all.
While most of us certainly wish a character like Putin to disappear or resign this is very unlikely to happen, leaving us with the only option of never coming to terms again with entire Russia after the conflict is over.
Charles Black says
I’m going to sound like a downer here, yet if WWIII were to begin the USA would lose handily.
BLR says
joe biden can shove his dreams of a socialist democracy up his ass and explain to us real american s why he is making war on our Constitutional Republic … the two bit counterfeiter