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2024-04-23 08:54:22 UTC
This weeks Liberal Media Scream is a rare five-screamer featuring a
liberal journalist turned historian and biographer claiming that voter
patriotism demands reelecting President Joe Biden over former President
Donald Trump.
Jon Meacham, the former top editor of Newsweek, said on HBOs Real Time
with Bill Maher, Patriotism is allegiance to an idea. Its not just an
allegiance to your own kind. Thats nationalism. Trump is a nationalist.
President Biden is a patriot.
Talking more like an East Coast elitist than a Tennessee native, the
liberal analyst added with seriousness, Im lucky in that I dont have
particular policy passions, particular issues.
And he included a condescending little jab at his home state. I want the
constitutional order to continue to unfold, and President Biden is devoted
to that constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I
would say to my Republican friends and I live in Tennessee, so thats
redundant that it is, in fact, a moral question.
Here is Meacham, on Real Time with Bill Maher, reacting to the news that
former Attorney General William Barr (a Trump critic) will vote for his
former boss:
JON MEACHAM: What Barr is doing, and what so many I sometimes think of
them as the Peter Millar Republicans, right, these are Republicans who are
not full MAGA people, theyre mens grill types who dont want Democrats
picking judges or setting tax rates.
They talked themselves into this twice. In 16 and in 20. And then came
December and January of 2020 and 2021, and, at that point, I believe, and
I say this with care, that it is become evident, to me, anyway, that there
is a patriotic duty to support President Biden against Donald Trump for
this reason: Patriotism is allegiance to an idea. Its not just an
allegiance to your own kind. Thats nationalism. Trump is a nationalist.
President Biden is a patriot, and Im lucky in that I dont have
particular policy passions, particular issues. I want the constitutional
order to continue to unfold, and President Biden is devoted to that
constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I would say
to my Republican friends and I live in Tennessee, so thats redundant
that it is, in fact, a moral question .
To me, the interesting thing about the Republican Party is if you are, in
fact, going to put partisanship as your central organizing principle, if
reflexive partisanship is the most important thing I would argue that
you need to go back and read George Washingtons farewell address. You
need to read the founders that otherwise, you know, they love.
You know, they love the founders when they can move it around to agree
with them. Its very clear that if party spirit became the organizing
principle, that, that was going to be fatal to the Constitution, and its
very interesting when Barr said its suicide. The idea that President
Biden is leading us to national suicide. Im not sure what hes talking
about, but Lincoln used that image in his first major speech in the 1830s.
He said if we ever fall, its not going to be from a foreign foe: Its
going to be from someone internally rising up and mastering those
passions. And those passions about partisanship, thats whats ruining us.
Brent Baker, the vice president of research and publications for the Media
Research Center, explains our weekly pick: Could Meacham be any more
condescending and elitist? So much for the pretense of being a journalist
and not a partisan activist. His take: Ive decided which candidate is bad
for America, so if you vote for that one, you are not only not a patriot,
but you will bring about the destruction of the nation. And he wonders why
his neighbors in Tennessee dont appreciate him for denouncing them as on
the wrong side of a moral question. I bet they have a lot more respect
for his views than he does for theirs.
Rating: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-
secrets/2974638/liberal-media-scream-historian-meacham-says-patriotism-
demands-biden-win/
liberal journalist turned historian and biographer claiming that voter
patriotism demands reelecting President Joe Biden over former President
Donald Trump.
Jon Meacham, the former top editor of Newsweek, said on HBOs Real Time
with Bill Maher, Patriotism is allegiance to an idea. Its not just an
allegiance to your own kind. Thats nationalism. Trump is a nationalist.
President Biden is a patriot.
Talking more like an East Coast elitist than a Tennessee native, the
liberal analyst added with seriousness, Im lucky in that I dont have
particular policy passions, particular issues.
And he included a condescending little jab at his home state. I want the
constitutional order to continue to unfold, and President Biden is devoted
to that constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I
would say to my Republican friends and I live in Tennessee, so thats
redundant that it is, in fact, a moral question.
Here is Meacham, on Real Time with Bill Maher, reacting to the news that
former Attorney General William Barr (a Trump critic) will vote for his
former boss:
JON MEACHAM: What Barr is doing, and what so many I sometimes think of
them as the Peter Millar Republicans, right, these are Republicans who are
not full MAGA people, theyre mens grill types who dont want Democrats
picking judges or setting tax rates.
They talked themselves into this twice. In 16 and in 20. And then came
December and January of 2020 and 2021, and, at that point, I believe, and
I say this with care, that it is become evident, to me, anyway, that there
is a patriotic duty to support President Biden against Donald Trump for
this reason: Patriotism is allegiance to an idea. Its not just an
allegiance to your own kind. Thats nationalism. Trump is a nationalist.
President Biden is a patriot, and Im lucky in that I dont have
particular policy passions, particular issues. I want the constitutional
order to continue to unfold, and President Biden is devoted to that
constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I would say
to my Republican friends and I live in Tennessee, so thats redundant
that it is, in fact, a moral question .
To me, the interesting thing about the Republican Party is if you are, in
fact, going to put partisanship as your central organizing principle, if
reflexive partisanship is the most important thing I would argue that
you need to go back and read George Washingtons farewell address. You
need to read the founders that otherwise, you know, they love.
You know, they love the founders when they can move it around to agree
with them. Its very clear that if party spirit became the organizing
principle, that, that was going to be fatal to the Constitution, and its
very interesting when Barr said its suicide. The idea that President
Biden is leading us to national suicide. Im not sure what hes talking
about, but Lincoln used that image in his first major speech in the 1830s.
He said if we ever fall, its not going to be from a foreign foe: Its
going to be from someone internally rising up and mastering those
passions. And those passions about partisanship, thats whats ruining us.
Brent Baker, the vice president of research and publications for the Media
Research Center, explains our weekly pick: Could Meacham be any more
condescending and elitist? So much for the pretense of being a journalist
and not a partisan activist. His take: Ive decided which candidate is bad
for America, so if you vote for that one, you are not only not a patriot,
but you will bring about the destruction of the nation. And he wonders why
his neighbors in Tennessee dont appreciate him for denouncing them as on
the wrong side of a moral question. I bet they have a lot more respect
for his views than he does for theirs.
Rating: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-
secrets/2974638/liberal-media-scream-historian-meacham-says-patriotism-
demands-biden-win/