Biden ended the war in Afghanistan and grounded the drones. So why does it feel like the 3rd term of the Bush administration to allegedly objective news reporters?
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Look, I’m not naive enough to think that Biden was going to benefit politically or get good media coverage for ending the war in Afghanistan. But the latest iteration of judging Trump and Democratic presidents/candidates by radically different standards is a world-historic achievement in self-parody:
"When Biden said he would end the war in Afghanistan, he actually meant that he would end all military conflict in the world forever" isn't even goalpost moving, it's like saying the Florida Panthers promised to win the Stanley Cup but are losers because the Marlins are 43-73— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) August 9, 2024
Despite the quickly tossed-off "analysts say" qualification, the article — presented as straight news, not an opinion column — essentially treats Trump's premise that he could press a button and immediately end the world's major conflicts as if it was fact pic.twitter.com/Cx61Px5qMo— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) August 9, 2024
The crucial and dishonest move is to take an accurate statement by Biden about decisions he had control over and expand it to a much broader claim he didn’t make, and then judge him by the latter standard:
the lede of the piece does a kind of weird switcheroo, misconstruing Biden's comments for dramatic effect. pic.twitter.com/FeMh8NrLz7— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 9, 2024
Between this and sanewashing Trump’s increasingly unhinged press conferences they’re basically propping Trump up like Weekend at Bernie’s at this point.