How will The New York Times treat the Democrat’s sudden frontrunner for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, VP Kamala Harris? Monday’s front-page Times story by Michael Shear was supportive but relatively muted, expressing a little uncertainly among Democrats: “After a Shaky Start, Harris Is Suddenly on Brink of Leading Democratic Ticket.” But if Harris is crowned Trump’s official challenger for the presidency, expect the tone to shift dramatically in favor of Harris and perhaps even more so against her Republican critics. Before Harris actually assumed the office of vice president in 2020 and proved herself an embarrassing dud via her many gaffes and awkward public appearances, the New York Times fiercely, falsely defended her against “racist, sexist attacks” from Republicans and Fox News. The Times went on an absolute tear in defense of VP-candidate Harris, from calling Trump’s own vice president Mike Pence a sexist to turning every conservative argument against Harris into proof of her opponents’ underlying, yes, “racism and sexism.” The opening sentence of an August 12, 2020 story after Joe Biden picked Harris to be his running mate set the hysterical tone of the paper’s coverage: From the first hours after Joseph R. Biden Jr. chose Kamala Harris as his running mate, President Trump, his Republican allies and conservative hosts on Fox News unfurled a string of sexist attacks on Ms. Harris. When the vice president’s debate rolled around in October 2020, reporter Maggie Astor plunged full force into the shameless smear in her pathetic defense of Harris in “Facing a ‘Double Bind’ of Racism and Sexism.” Astor unearthed racist tropes in every word a conservative dared use to describe Harris: These caricatures and double standards have been accompanied by sexualization, common against women of all races but especially those who are Black. This is another racist trope, the promiscuous, hypersexual “Jezebel.” Literally anything critical of Kamala was considered racist by deluded Astor:  But the same tendency can be seen in smaller forms, like the frequent mispronunciations of her name and descriptions of her as inauthentic, including calling her 'phony.' Even before the VP debate, reporters Sydney Ember and Lisa Lerer wrote: While many Democrats view Ms. Harris as a barrier-breaking hero, Fox News hosts and conservative media outlets have mounted racist and sexist assaults on her reputation, painting her as a radical leftist. Fast-forward to early July 2024 and the Times’ Erica Green hailing Harris while accusing the GOP of, you guessed it, “racism and sexism.” In recent days, the Trump campaign and Republican critics have amped up their attacks on her, hinting at how a Harris candidacy could lead to even more of the kinds of racist and sexist assaults that she has been fending off during her time as vice president.

Joe Biden is finally dragged out of the race, kicking and screaming, and then he’s suddenly praised for a graceful exit and compared to George Washington. Biden should be compared to less-than-great presidents like Millard Fillmore. There's nothing funnier than the Democrats spending three weeks trying to drag Biden out of the race, and when he finally knuckles under, then he's like George Washington, and he's shown honor and grace and patriotism. Suddenly, Biden is Washington, Lincoln, JFK, LBJ, the Roman leader Cincinnatus, and I keep waiting for a comparison to Superman now isolating with Covid in his Fortress of Solitude. If he was all about gracefully resigning, why didn't he do it weeks ago? He's been at the center of a long and ugly Democrat spat, but they want to make it sound like they're in a serene moment. It's a Potemkin Moment of Zen. He didn't show grace. He climbed the greasy pole of power and had to be dragged away from it, stubbornly insisting that only God himself could take him out of the race. He told an interviewer last week that only an adverse medical condition would make him get out, which effectively underlines he has an adverse medical condition.  Speaking of brain fractures, former Senator Claire McCaskill touted Biden by claiming He doesn't have anybody in his cabinet that’s not- that wasn't endorsing him. He doesn't have a vice president that isn't gonna be at his convention. He doesn't have, you know, loads of people saying, “oh, I wish it were someone else” behind the scenes." How's that for turning reality upside down? Hollywood was happy. "Luke Skywalker" himself, actor Mark Hamill tweeted Biden "has a record of accomplishments unmatched by any president in our lifetime. He restored honesty, dignity & integrity to the office after 4 years of lies, crime, scandal & chaos." The Bidens never lie or have scandals. That's what you might believe if you only sample pro-Biden media.  Then Rob Reiner tweeted "Kamala Harris will be the 47th President of the United States. Democracy will survive." For the anti-Meathead spirit, we turn to T. Becket Adams over at the National Journalism Center: "The Biden presidency will end just as it began: With a completely shambolic withdrawal, executed with little to no planning or consideration and at a great cost to those who rely on the White House for accountable and responsible leadership." Bingo. Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And come to NewsBusters, once or twice or 24 times a day.   

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