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“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”—the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Aug. 28, 1963 “Our long national nightmare is over.”—President Gerald Ford, Aug. 9, 1974 I’m not sure which of those two historical quotes better captures the moment Monday as America marks the end of an era—I mean, error—as President Joe Biden departs the White House and retires to his oceanfront mansion in Delaware and his vice president, Kamala Harris, presumably returns to California to plot her next move. But since President Donald Trump’s Grover Cleveland-like return to the Oval Office happens to fall on the same day that we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let’s go with the former. As he exits stage (far) left, Biden as recently as Jan. 10 insisted that he “could have beaten Trump” had he not been forced by Democratic Party pooh-bahs—Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer—to end a reelection bid that had been irreparably damaged by a universally panned debate performance. Biden made that ludicrous claim—“without evidence,” to borrow a pet phrase of the so-called fact-checkers in the legacy media—and in so doing, proved conclusively that he’s not only in denial but also delusional. In the next breath, Biden even more preposterously insisted that his equally clueless vice president also could have won—the Nov. 5 election evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. But he might have added that as an afterthought to avoid humiliating Harris in his statement’s implication that Democrats made a colossal mistake by replacing him on the ballot with her. As CNN noted Saturday, “Every time Biden says he could have beaten Trump, it’s a fresh reminder that Harris did not, which has added fresh tension to an already complicated relationship between the two in the waning days of their White House partnership.” But Biden isn’t the only one in Washington who is delusional. In a risible postmortem paean to Biden on Jan. 12, far-left Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson insisted that the outgoing president “leaves the nation much better off than he found it.” “By any objective standard,” Robinson claimed, Biden “was a very good president whose accomplishments will benefit the nation for many years to come.” As if that weren’t hyperbolic enough, Kenneth Mack, a professor of law and history at Harvard University, went so far as to tell Politico that Biden was “the most successful one-term president in American history.” Biden himself appeared to have picked up on that theme in his farewell address to the nation last Wednesday night: “You know, it will take time to feel the full impact of all we’ve done together,” he said, “But the seeds are planted, and they’ll grow, and they’ll bloom for decades to come.” What that means is that it will now be up to Trump, through the executive orders he issues Monday and thereafter, to uproot those “seeds” then salt the earth so they can never grow back again. Only in the groupthink of the ideologically cloistered Post newsroom and in the groves of academe could one regard the Biden presidency as having been anything other than an execrable failure. That’s borne out by a CNN poll, released Wednesday ahead of Biden’s sour and dour farewell address from the Oval Office, that found that “[m]ost Americans, 61%, say they see Biden’s presidency overall as a failure, with 38% viewing it as a success.” (What those 38% were smoking is anyone’s guess.) And no, it wasn’t, as Biden’s apologists insist, simply a “Cool Hand Luke”-style “failure to communicate” his administration’s accomplishments. There were precious few genuine accomplishments to communicate, unless you consider, for example, squandering $891 billion on the so-called Inflation Reduction Act—most of it spent on green energy and Green New Deal climate boondoggles that did nothing to reduce inflation—an accomplishment. Biden’s term was four years of what Trump rightly referred to Sunday night as “failure, disaster, and decline.” From 45-year-high inflation that was anything but “transitory” to cavalierly throwing open the southern border to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants (most of them unvetted) to the catastrophic and humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, all I can add to Trump’s assessment is the adjective “unmitigated.” Yet in a Jan. 15 interview with “PBS News Hour,” Biden’s hapless press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, chirped, “[Biden’s] done more in four years than most presidents have done in two terms.” But in Biden’s case, that’s akin to boasting about cramming 10 pounds of garbage into a five-pound bag. So much so, in fact, that it likely will take much of Trump’s next four years to repair the wreckage of Biden’s divisive presidency. Ironically, that divisiveness was the antithesis of what Biden promised in his inaugural address four years ago to the day. Biden solemnly vowed: “[M]y whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation. I pledge this to you: I will be a president for all Americans. I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did.” Whether or not Biden sincerely meant it at the time and intended to make good on that Day One promise, he did nothing of the kind; in fact, quite the diametric opposite. If there is anything good that has come from the four years of the Biden-Harris administration, it’s that I’ve added three new words to my vocabulary: omnishambles (“a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences”) shambolic (“chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged”) kakistocracy (“government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state or country”) There’s one other takeaway of Biden’s legacy: If his choice of Harris as his running mate hasn’t utterly discredited the concept of diversity, equity, and inclusion, nothing will. As such, marking the end of the Biden regime would be incomplete without this as an epitaph: Thank God—and the American electorate—that Harris, the poster child for DEI and for failing upward, will never be president. Still, it’s incomprehensible that 75 million people—48.3% of voters—thought she was fit to be commander in chief and wanted four more years of the Biden-Harris kakistocracy. So, ending with a quote just as I began, now that we have a new occupant of the Oval Office, we can look forward to “what can be, unburdened (or should I say un-Bidened?) by what has been.” The post End of an Error: An Epitaph to a Failed Presidency appeared first on The Daily Signal.

WSJ: Suddenly, It's Hip To Be MAGA

Nobody was expecting leftwing tv journalists to be anything short of bitter on the day Donald Trump assumed the office of the Presidency for the second time. But for anyone hoping to get a good chuckle out of the CNN and MSNBC panelists’ emotional reactions and tortured analysis, the coverage did not disappoint.     Panelists on both liberal cable networks scoffed at Trump’s inaugural speech, panning it as “dark” and reminiscent of his 2016 “American carnage” speech. CNN’s David Axelrod complained: This was sort of an “American carnage” burger in a “golden era” bun. The front and the back had something uplifting; the middle of it was very familiar, sort of dystopian rhetoric — that he ran on, to be fair — that included his persona grievances and some false assertions. Over at MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell was theatrically outraged at Trump’s choice of language: “The Inaugural Address has gone from the President saying, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,’ to, ‘Drill, baby, drill.’” His co-panelist, Nicolle Wallace, read aloud a tweet from Katie Rogers of The New York Times: “As Trump disparages migrants and outlines his plans (there are not millions and millions of criminal migrants as he claims today), a largely white crowd is applauding in the Rotunda.” Within five minutes of the ceremony ending, Dana Bash on CNN had already brought up January 6th: Where he was giving that speech in the Capital Rotunda, four years ago, people, in his name, were desecrating that very building, that very area. Because they did not want him to leave office. They believed the lies he was telling, that he actually did win. Buckle up for four years of very loud, sanctimonious whining.

We’ve got a brand new, fun interactive series for the new year called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.   Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).   The results are in and the winner is…. Joy Behar! It wasn’t a close race as the ABC’s The View co-host crushed her competitors with 63 percent of the vote. MSNBC host Al Sharpton came in second place with 25 percent of the vote and CBS Face the Nation moderator came in a distant third with just 11 percent.  Behar took home the top spot with the following hateful outburst:      WINNER   Joy Is Sad: I Miss Joe Biden Already (63 percent of the vote) “I miss him already. I miss him. He’s a good person. You know, he spent the last 50 years caring about the country. This other one spent 50 years scamming everybody, you know, and trying to stay out of jail. You know who I’m talking about. You know, I really miss Biden. I feel like we were safe, like I didn’t have to worry everything was going to blow up? I could live my life while he was there. Now, every day I wake up and worry what is this guy [Donald Trump] gonna do next?” — Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, January 16.    SECOND PLACE (25 percent of the vote)   It’s Not California Democratic Incompetence, It’s Climate Change “The Los Angeles wildfires have been devastating and should serve as a wake-up call to anyone disillusioned with politics and thinking about sitting out the upcoming Trump term. The reality is when it comes to the health of our planet we don’t have four years to spare. Experts say dry weather and high winds — brought on by climate change — will only make wildfires more common in California.”— Host Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation, January 12.   THIRD PLACE (11 percent of the vote)   Will Trump Immigration Limits Stop the Next Albert Einstein From Coming to America? “When you look at Einstein and you look at Henry Kissinger, they were refugees to this country. Donald Trump set refugee admissions at very low levels first term. He’s talking about blocking refugee admissions this term. Is that a mistake?”— Host Margaret Brennan to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on CBS’s Face the Nation, January 12.   The following is a montage of last week’s nominees:      Thanks to all who participated!