Policy They contacted me to provide a conservative take on Joe Biden’s first year in office, but when I hit their favorite president too strenuous, they proved once again that the establishment media continues to portray this failed president as a sneer to Democrats and the far left.
“I’m working on an expert summary of President Joe Biden’s first year in office. I’m reaching out to you to see if you could attend,” she began, adding: “Here’s a link to one of the meetings you attended last year, when we asked for a democracy assessment after former President Trump was in office for four years.”
Policy he contacted me because I had dealt with presidents in public life for half a century. I served in statewide elected office in Ohio (treasurer and secretary of state, then GOP candidate for governor). In the 1980s, I was part of President Ronald Reagan’s external support network. President George H. W. Bush (41) then appointed me to senior positions in the federal government, both in domestic policy as Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and in foreign policy as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. I chaired the presidential campaign and, in the private sector, served on the boards of various prominent organizations such as the National Rifle Association, the Club for Growth, and the First Liberty Institute.
The reporter asked for 200 words by 4 p.m. the next day. So I gave her exactly 200 words as follows:
President Biden’s first year was the epic failure that Republicans and conservatives warned about, demonstrating why we supported President Trump’s campaign against Biden. The disasters seem too numerous to mention. In terms of foreign policy, Afghanistan’s withdrawal was a disaster, withdrawing our military before evacuating civilians and allies and leaving all our weapons to arm terrorists. China and Russia recognize Biden’s weakness and incompetence, which has as yet unknown consequences. On the domestic policy front, the $2 trillion of unwarranted Covid-19 socialism has caused terrible inflation, particularly in gas and food. Regulations are stifling our businesses, and the Supreme Court saves some businesses but not others. Biden continues his failed attempts by authoritarian socialists to take power, known as Orwellian doublespeak, such as taking over elections but calling them “voting rights”, destroying the US free market economy but calling it “Building Back Better”, creating two new Senate seats by unconstitutional to call DC a “state”, destroying the separate role of the Senate from the House by calling the filibuster “racist”, and destroying the Supreme Court as an independent branch of government, but calling it “expanding”. All this while Biden’s promises of unity and healing mean calling out his opponents Jefferson Davis and George Wallace. Epic Failure: F. Must Lead!
The reporter then thanked me for participating. Then they never published it.
So here’s the game Policy and similar media outlets are having fun: With Biden’s poll numbers in the 30s, they must admit his abject failures or they will lose what little credibility they have left in Central America. They need to say something, they want someone who will maybe give Biden a slap on the wrist but won’t actually explain why he has been a miserable failure as president. And they refuse at all costs to publish comments like mine that prove how much better Trump was as president than Biden.
Ironically, it is precisely because of this type of relentless gentle media coverage that Biden was elected. Clearly, the establishment media continues to see it as their job to cover up for this feeble and ineffective president, especially as it becomes increasingly likely that he – or Kamala Harris, who would be better off – will face a robust Republican challenger in 2024. and give voters a chance to return America to the path of prosperity, robust families and security.
Ken Blackwell is the chair of the Center for Election Integrity at the America First Policy Institute, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, and a member of the policy board of the American Constitutional Rights Union.
