{"id":12623,"date":"2020-09-15T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2020-09-14T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T02:18:43","slug":"biden-the-great-and-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-the-great-and-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, \u2018The Great and Powerful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media bias is not new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the Russian collusion hoax and the phone-call impeachment farce, who can forget the marquee media toadies of JournoList and the release of John Podesta\u2019s email trove?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or the moderator Donna Brazile\u2019s primary debate questions, leaked through CNN, or Candy Crowley\u2019s hijacking of a debate as moderator-turned-real-time-hack \u201cfact-checker\u201d?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing then is new to the media\u2019s fusion and collusion with the \u201cprogressive party.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet never in American history have mainstream journalists not merely promoted a candidate but actively fused with his political candidacy to the point of warping, fabricating, and Trotskyizing the news and indeed history itself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trope of a vast charade to create an illusionary powerful figure out of nothing is an old one in fiction, Hollywood and television. We remember \u201cThe Great and Powerful\u201d Wizard of Oz fakery, a formidable screen image created backstage by gears and levers operated by a tiny man \u201cbehind the curtain.\u201d Similar is the famous scene in an episode of the old Star Trek series, depicting a near comatose on-air&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/John_Gill\">John Gill<\/a>&nbsp;used as a televised prop by his puppeteers, in a utopian federation project gone haywire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/09\/13\/biden-the-great-and-powerful\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Media bias is not new. In addition to the Russian collusion hoax and the phone-call impeachment farce, who can forget the marquee media toadies of JournoList and the release of John Podesta\u2019s email trove?&nbsp; Or the moderator Donna Brazile\u2019s primary debate questions, leaked through CNN, or Candy Crowley\u2019s hijacking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3hB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7272,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-truth-drips-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":12623,"position":0},"title":"The Truth Drips Out","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ NRO's The Corner\u00a0 For over a year and a half the White House successfully withheld communications between public servants, apparently in hopes that the death of four Americans in Benghazi would not become an issue in the 2012 election (at the eleventh hour CNN\u2019s Candy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Benghazi&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Benghazi","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/obama-administration\/benghazi\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12654,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-full-crowley\/","url_meta":{"origin":12623,"position":1},"title":"The Full Crowley","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In the second presidential election debate\u00a0between President\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0and Republican presidential nominee\u00a0Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012, CNN moderator Candy Crowley sensed that Obama, coming off a dismal initial September 26 debate, was again floundering.\u00a0 Romney was driving home the valid point that the Obama\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11845,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/federal-rats-are-fleeing-the-sinking-collusion-ship\/","url_meta":{"origin":12623,"position":2},"title":"Federal Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Collusion Ship","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. 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