What appears to be a controlled experiment to determine “Just how stupid are members of the American public who can read?” the White House risibly claims that Joe Biden “plans to write a book after leaving office giving him an opportunity to try and shape the narrative around his presidency and the tumultuous weeks leading to his historic withdrawal from the 2024 race.” Axios, a card-carrying member of the progressive propaganda machine, writes as if this is credible, when everyone without a see-through head knows it is not. “If the book project comes to fruition, it will be a chance for Biden to lay out, in full, his views on what he accomplished and why he handled the 2024 cycle the way he did,” Axios says. No, it will be a chance for Biden’s spin team, puppeteers, pardoned son and wife to concoct a fantasy worthy of Frank L. Baum.
The Speaker of the House revealed this week in an interview with Free Press that Biden insisted to Speaker Mike Johnson that he never issued an order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits. Biden had in fact signed it less than a month earlier. Johnson told podcaster Bari Weiss that he believes Biden “genuinely didn’t know what he had signed.” And that account is from January 2024!
How is Biden going to write a book, or even provide coherent notes and memories so the usual presidential ghostwriters can write it? Easy: He can’t. Biden can’t dictate his memoirs because his memory is obviously shot along with his vocabulary. Ulysses S. Grant wrote the best Presidential autobiography I’ve ever read, in long-hand, all by himself, while dying of throat cancer. If Biden tried to write his memoirs by himself, they would come out as a dog’s breakfast hybrid of “Ulysses,” “Fox in Socks” and “Three Little Fishies in an Itty Bitty Pool” (“Boop boop dittern dattem whattem …. Chu!”) What we will get instead will make Howard Hughes’ fake autobiography by Clifford Irving seem authentic by comparison.
Who would buy such dishonest trash? Jack Kennedy didn’t write or research “Profiles in Courage” (that he was awarded a Pulitzer for), but at least he could read it and remember that he had read it a month later. Biden’s “memoirs,”if they ever come to fruition, will have only one use that I can think of: in job interviews, you will be able to ask applicants if they have read “We Beat Medicare” or whatever it’s called. If they answer yes, you can put their resumes in the “Idiot” pile with complete confidence.
The other unethical book, however, sounds wonderful, and I want to wait until its discounted to a nickel a copy and buy a few hundred to hand out as gifts to every one of my friends and relatives who voted for Kamala Harris. “Kamala: Her Historic, Joyful, and Auspicious Sprint to the White House” was written by a journalist, or what passes as one now, Kevin Merida, with photos by a black, female “photo-historian.” (I guessed at her race. I was right.) Merida was the former executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, and either he’s hard up for work or is an epic hack. From the hilarious review in the Washington Free Beacon:
- “At the very least, this book will be a useful reference for historians studying the outrageous degree to which America’s cultural elites and so-called experts have become so detached from the normal Americans who don’t obsess about politics and find preposterous the idea that someone like Kamala Harris could ever bring ‘joy’ to their lives.”
- “Merida commends Harris on her successful quest to ‘popularize joy: A simple, sweet, infectious noun that became a kind of campaign anthem to rally around. The antidote to fear and hopelessness, and just maybe the inception of a saner kind of politics. The politics of decency.’ She delighted Americans with her ‘cool elegance,’ the ‘bigness’ of her ‘persona,’ and ‘the way she lifts her eyebrows to convey empathy.’ Harris proved she has ‘bravery and intellect in her DNA.’ She is ‘expert at the specificity of gesturing.’ Her ‘hugs have a warmth to them.'”
Isn’t that great? He’s actually saying this about Kamala Harris!
- More from Merida: “Over a lightning-swift 107 days, Kamala Harris completely rewrote the American political playbook. She took her perpetually underestimated self and sprinted across the 2024 presidential campaign landscape, giving voice to aspiration and ambition, bringing confidence to little girls, championing small businesses as part of her economic vision.”
- The contributions from the so-biased-it-hurts “photo-historian,” who wrote captions to her selections, read like a National Lampoon spoof. Like this
Or this…
Well, you get the idea. I want this on my coffee table the next time my sister visits. What a perfect memento of the most dishonest, cynical, incompetent Presidential campaign of all time and the damning efforts by the news media to let the Democrats get away with it. “Kamala: Her Historic, Joyful, and Auspicious Sprint to the White House” should be as famous as the Chicago Tribune’s “Dewey Defeats Truman!” front page.
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Pointer: Instapundit.
Ethics Alarms 
“She even ordered a slice of chocolate caramel cake—caramel’s her favorite—at Dottie’s Market in Savannah along the way.“
Merida is the reincarnation of Jonathan Swift. There’s no other possible explanation.
It’s “It isn’t what it is!” on steroids. It seems to be all they have and they’re hitting it hard. I think they’re going to use it relentlessly for the next four years. Along the lines of “Oscar De la Renta for Hillary Clinton, but not for thee, Ivanka! You’re a fascist! (Not that I’m really sure exactly what that word means and how it might apply to you or your father.)”
And Grant had Mark Twain as an editor! The best ghostwriters in the country can’t top that. It’s why I have my own copy of “Personal Memoirs”.
First off, I kept waiting for you to reveal that Merida’s book is satire. I’m still waiting, actually.
As for the food photo ops, it is kind of an odd choice, considering Trump’s brief stint (stunt?) at McDonald’s was far more effective.
-Jut
Somehow, Trump appeared to have been born wearing that apron.
Kamala looks like she’s afraid the slab of beef she’s spatulaed will somehow roll up the handle and attack her.
I found the following formulation particularly entertaining
Has Ethics Alarms ever considered “reading” producing recorded versions of posts like this one to be posted on YouTube and possibly monetized?
Great idea.
And thanks a lot, Speaker Johnson. Why the hell didn’t you tell anyone about that little incident (full Sam Kinison scream) FROM A YEAR AGO!
Exactly. Thanks for making that point: I thought the same thing.
What a weasel and an idiot! First, he fails to do anything a year ago. Then he bathers about it now? No wonder he had such a hard time getting confirmed. He might as well be a Democrat. He certainly thinks like one.
I was going to write this exact thing.
The WSJ reported on the matter last June, citing six people who had heard the story about how Johnson’s February meeting with Biden had gone: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246
I’m guessing Johnson decided it was better to wait to go public on the matter so that Biden would continue to campaign as the Dem’s certain-to-lose presidential candidate.
And now can we refer to St. Anthony of Fauci and Liz Cheney and all the rest as “pardoned felons?”
“Pardoned unindicted felons.”
Are there really pre-emptive pardons? This doesn’t make sense to me. How can the democrats keep insisting that no one is above the law and then have Biden make so called pre-emptive pardons?
I know someone said Ford effectively gave Nixon a pre-emptive pardon when I brought this up before, but, I don’t see how these given by Biden are the same or can even stand a legal challenge. Am I wrong? I mean, in the future any president can have people in his administration break the law to achieve his/her goals and just give them pre-emptive pardons before leaving office.
In addition, I wonder whether the alleged pardons could be challenged on a capacity argument. The pardon power seems to be really personal to the president. Can it really be delegated? Does Joe have the capacity to take any legally binding action? I’m not sure who’d have standing to make such an attack? The DOJ?
I just covered this in the latest post, up just now.
Imagine if Trump on day one suggested he would preemptively pardon everyone in his administration.
The Democrats would be apoplectic
The law provides for pardons.
Of course, pardons, being functionally equivalent to acquittals, woiuld not immunize people from civil suits.
I’ve been day dreaming about collecting all the photos of progressive meltdowns like screaming-in-the-air-girl and making a coffee table book out of it. But I’m not sure the copyright rules in regards to those types of photos.
Also in Whatever-the-Democrats-are-screaming-accusations-about-Republicans-the-Democrats-are-actually-doing news:
We have a slate of pre-emptive pardons (whatever banana republic technique that is) coming out of the last few minutes of Biden’s presidency for a rogues gallery of miscreants.
Opinion | How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms – The New York Times
This is an incredible piece all the EA commentariat should read or listen to. Among other things, Andreesen provides the first explanation I’ve ever seen of how woke kids infiltrated large companies and the government: Wealthy parents sent their kids to prestige universities where they were radicalized to hate America and want to tear it down, they got cushy jobs in industry and government and proceeded to tear those down.
He also discusses how the Dems have made every effort to control social media and by extension, maintain control over political thought to remain in power and destroy the country.
Even went to Althouse to secure a “gift link,” none was available.
PWS
Remember thids quote.
Yes, every night. Brian Williams. The last remaining honest news anchor in America. The guy you can really rely on, the guy you can really trust to tell you the truth. Eleven o’clock or eight o’clock out here, every night it was, “It is Day 167 of the Trump interregnum of having a Russian spy in the White House.”
It was a foundation stone for the results of the 2024 elections!