OPINION:
Joe Biden, the president who holds the American record for most public appearances as the main character in the 1989 “Weekend at Bernie’s” film — you know, the dead guy who was dragged here and there by his two living friends — yes, that character — but anyhow, Biden has scored a creative gig with the mega-creative talent group, Creative Artists Agency.
It really doesn’t get any more creative than bringing a dead man to life.
The co-chairman says Biden is “one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs.”
And a breathless world wonders: Well, where the heck was that Joe Biden during his four years of White House administration? Cause the Joe Biden we all know is not the Joe Biden CAA is describing.
“His lifelong commitment to public service is one of unity, optimism, dignity and possibility,” CAA co-chairman Richard Lovett said, Fox News reported. “We are profoundly honored to partner with him again.”
Biden had been represented by CAA between 2017 and 2020 — ostensibly, before he lost his mind and became the Democrat Party’s choice for president (in that order, by the way).
But after four years of public executive office ramblings, complete with readings of stage directions from his staff’s notes; call-outs to wheelchair-confined Americans to stand and take a bow; call-outs to dead people; call-outs to his vice president as president — several times; and call-outs to the ice cream man to hurry the bleep up and bring me my bleeping cone — all while happily walking off the stage in the wrong direction, to the great consternation of his handlers and wife, who then had to go on “The View” and deny rumors her husband’s mind had turned to mush — after four years of all this, and more, it would seem obvious — it should seem obvious: This is not the man you want to hire for public speaking gigs.
But hired he’s been.
“Biden Is Ready to Make Some Hollywood Deals, Signs With CAA,” The Hollywood Reporter wrote.
“President Biden is one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs” — that’s CAA’s story and by gosh, they’re sticking to it. Repeat a lie often enough and the people will believe it.
“President Biden is one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs” — repeat, repeat, repeat, don’t laugh, repeat.
Once again, Hollywood has swooped to the Democrats’ defense. And that right there is the issue: rewarding incompetence. Nobody rewards incompetence like a leftist — or gaslights, for that matter.
For nearly four years, the Democrats as a party tried to sell the narrative that Biden was ol’ folksy Joe, the man of the people, blue-collar guy, the one who understood the little peon problems of regular Americans. That was a lie — Biden was a corrupt Washington insider, schooled in political trading and trained in the art of using his office as a bully pit. He pardoned his son; he pardoned his family; he pardoned a whole batch of crooks and likely crooks and openly, unashamedly, unabashedly convicted criminal crooks. He did that because he is a man of those people — he understands their problems and concerns and relates.
For years the media sold the narrative that Biden was the most intelligent man in the room; and the media did this all the while knowing he was reading from scripts at the stage, and so badly, oh so poorly, oh so mindlessly, that he actually read out loud all the little directions his staffers included between the parentheses marks — “smile and pause,” “nod enthusiastically and point to the crowd,” “don’t forget to blow your nose,” and so on and such and such like and so forth.
For years, the globalists in governments took advantage of dopey Joe — and so did America’s enemies in China, in Russia, in Iran. For years, America’s allies watched in frustration and fear as they were tossed to the side of foreign aid considerations for the likes of terror groups — just ask Israel about the Biden-fueled moral equivalencies drawn between the Jews and Hamas.
For years, Democrats lied to the American people. Their friends in media lied to the American people. Biden lied to the American people. Then, when he could no longer serve — when his mental deficiencies were impossible to conceal — the Democrats threw Biden on the trash heap of politics and brought in Vice President Kamala Harris. And then they all lied to the American people and said she was the choice of Democrat voters — while nary a vote had been cast.
Now Biden’s got a gig with a creative agency.
Come to think of it, maybe the fit is natural after all. He’s been acting for years, under the cover of Democrats and the media. He’ll just do it now under the cover of Creative Artists Agency. And the gaslighting and lies have already begun.
“President Biden is one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs” — repeat, repeat, repeat and repeat.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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