Correction, Please!
Media Don the “Moderate” Mask on Biden, Even as His Extremist Policies Prove Otherwise
Item: In its July 4-10 issue, with a cover story on Joe Biden called “Retro or radical?” the Economist touts the potential Democratic president’s “instinctive caution.” It is, asserts the London-based publication, “Mr Biden’s caution that opens up the possibility of more change than a real radical would.” The conclusion of the magazine said: “It is by cleaving to the centre that he can best lead America in a new direction.”
Item: The leftist Washington Post carried a July 12 editorial entitled “Mr. Biden sets a mostly moderate economic course.” “On the whole,” asserts the Post, “Mr. Biden has managed to keep a relatively moderate policy course even as he acknowledged … that current crises create a ‘tremendous opportunity for the nation … an opportunity to address fundamental inequities of our nation, the growing gap between the very wealthy and everyone else.’”
Item: With an eye toward those even further to the left, the New York Times on occasion adapts the narrative a bit. A July 7 article (“Inching Left on Climate, Biden Woos Progressives”), the Times took note of Biden’s move to “engage younger, more liberal voters — and to ensure that they turn out in November.”
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