{"id":17467,"date":"2022-08-18T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:00:31","slug":"new-york-post-aviator-joe-latest-media-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/18\/new-york-post-aviator-joe-latest-media-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: &#8220;Aviator Joe&#8221; Latest Media Farce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single__header\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<h2>New York Post, August 18, 2022<\/h2>\n<h1 class=\"headline headline--single\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/17\/in-latest-media-buffoonery-pundits-say-aviator-joe-biden-is-pilot-america-needs\/\">Pundits Cheer \u2018Aviator Joe\u2019 Biden while ignoring the real issues of his presidency<\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"article-header__meta\" aria-label=\"Byline\">\n<div class=\"byline meta meta--byline\">By <a class=\"meta__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/17\/in-latest-media-buffoonery-pundits-say-aviator-joe-biden-is-pilot-america-needs\/#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"flyout-james-bovard\">James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single__content entry-content m-bottom \">\n<p>Two months ago Thursday, President Joe Biden fell off his bicycle, spurring plenty of rude derision online. But he is wearing sunglasses now, which somehow symbolizes the resurrection of his presidency. Not just any sunglasses but a special pair that spurred The New York Times to christen him \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/16\/style\/joe-biden-aviators.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aviator Joe<\/a>.\u201d Biden is supposedly the pilot America needs right now.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably no coincidence Biden is showcasing his sunglasses \u201cin the wake of another great aviator re-emergence and success story, that of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/12\/top-gun-maverick-review-the-perfect-summer-movie\/\">Tom Cruise in \u2018Top Gun: Maverick,&#8217;\u201d<\/a> the Times insists, tying the prez to the year\u2019s top-grossing film.<\/p>\n<p>The Ti<strong>mes gushes over Biden\u2019s<\/strong> \u201cpublic-service-is-cool persona\u201d and \u201cRay-Ban 3025s \u2014 the dark, wire-rimmed, teardrop-shaped sunglasses he has made his signature \u2014 that once again seem the emblem of the man.\u201d CNN hit the same theme: \u201cSuddenly, images of Biden as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/14\/politics\/president-biden-winning-streak\/index.html?utm_term=link&amp;utm_content=2022-08-14T16%3A30%3A07&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feeble septuagenarian<\/a> atop a mismanaged White House have given way to those of an experienced leader, smiling behind aviator sunglasses, whose battle-tested team has delivered on a range of national priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--primary-tag\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading widget-heading widget-heading--sm\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"inline-module__content\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"story__headline headline headline--xxs\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Can Biden speak coherently? <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/09\/biden-struggles-with-coughing-fit-during-speech-days-after-covid-recovery\/\">Does he frequently cough<\/a> like <strong>he\u2019s auditioning to be the Marlboro Man? Does he struggle to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCristianPM\/status\/1556772970365870085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put on a suit jacket<\/a> like Houdini trying to escape heavy chains and ropes? Doesn\u2019t matter \u2014 he\u2019s wearing sunglasses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>T<strong>he media are hellbent on convincing Americans that a dynamic, benevolent mind is behind those tinted frames. Is this a contemporary version of the Hans Christian Andersen story \u201cThe Emperor\u2019s New Clothes\u201d? Is Biden as bare mentally as the emperor in that story strutting down the street in his birthday suit? Biden is ramping up federal spending \u2014 which, according to Beltway scoring, proves he is a savior.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Politico gushed that \u201cpassage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/16\/biden-signs-spending-bill-says-middle-class-wont-pay-more-in-taxes\/\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a> will make Biden one of the most legislatively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/08\/07\/the-politics-of-making-history-00050228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">successful presidents<\/a> of the modern era.\u201d The Washington Post hurrahs \u201cBiden\u2019s hot streak, from the poolside to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/08\/biden-congress-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Capitol<\/a>\u201d while MSNBC hails the Inflation Reduction Act as one of \u201cPresident Biden\u2019s Big Wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is irrelevant that the Congressional Budget Office and many independent experts concluded the law <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/15\/inflation-reduction-act-will-cost-middle-class-20b-cbo\/\">will not reduce inflation<\/a>. Many pundits are morons who trust the sham titles attached to congressional legislation. It would have been more accurate to name the bill the Boarhawging Taxpayers Again Act. Hiring 87,000 new <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/16\/how-many-of-us-will-be-targeted-by-bidens-gun-wielding-irs\/\">IRS agents and employees <\/a>will result in hammers dropped on millions of working- and middle-class Americans. According to Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), \u201cIf you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/faith-freedom-self-reliance\/an-irs-thats-armed-and-dangerous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not cheating<\/a> on your taxes, you have nothing to worry about.\u201d But byzantine complexity creates endless tax tripwires for befuddled citizens, and the IRS long since stopped answering phone calls from the vast majority of taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t matter because Biden\u2019s media supporters can endlessly recite the name of the law to convince gullible voters that Joe is saving them. Similarly, pundits are whooping up the new law to empower the Commerce Department to spend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/08\/09\/fact-sheet-chips-and-science-act-will-lower-costs-create-jobs-strengthen-supply-chains-and-counter-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$50+ billion<\/a> to spur semiconductor production. Has the Commerce Department ever shown any competence in producing <em>anything?<\/em> Doesn\u2019t matter: The title of the bill \u2014 The CHIPS and Science Act \u2014 justifies another Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/16\/some-suggestions-for-joe-bidens-victory-lap\/\">victory lap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s cheering squad in the media has faith in government, thus explaining the torrent of accolades he reaps for shoving one boondoggle after another through Congress. Journalists are mostly devoted zealots of the Democratic Party. They realize that anything that makes Biden look successful could limit the damage his party suffers in the midterm elections. As long as Attorney General Merrick Garland doesn\u2019t indict Hunter Biden for the crimes exposed on his laptop or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/turley-colossal-failure-ag-garland-appoint-hunter-biden-january-6th-special-counsels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appoint a special counsel<\/a> to investigate Joe Biden\u2019s profiteering from Hunter, the media can pretend the president is a saint.<\/p>\n<p>Those aviator glasses are the 2022 version of Biden\u2019s 2020 presidential campaign. For most of that race, Biden hid in his Delaware basement while the media assured Americans he was a great leader waiting to rescue the nation. Wearing sunglasses nowadays prevents people from seeing the president looking dazed and confused \u2014 which he often does as he struggles with teleprompters or tries <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/14\/biden-shakes-hands-with-thin-air-after-north-carolina-speech\/\">to shake hands<\/a> with invisible people.<\/p>\n<p>The frenzy over Biden\u2019s sunglasses is reminiscent of some Republican women who got way too excited by the flight suit President George W. Bush wore when he pretended to be a jet pilot and stepped onto the USS Abraham Lincoln deck for his 2003 \u201cMission Accomplished\u201d ceremony. Similarly, New York Times columnist David Brooks swooned in 2005 for Sen. Barack Obama after meeting him and \u201clooking at his pant leg and his <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/68823\/the-courtship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">perfectly creased<\/a> pant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe there\u2019s a reason the nation\u2019s fashion trends should never originate in Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only thing missing in the latest media buffoonery is a troupe of trumpeters heralding the arrival of the Fact Checkers. It\u2019s probably only a matter of time until self-proclaimed experts confirm that, yes, wearing aviator sunglasses proves Biden is the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln or maybe even Millard Fillmore.<\/p>\n<p><em>James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post, August 18, 2022 Pundits Cheer \u2018Aviator Joe\u2019 Biden while ignoring the real issues of his presidency By James Bovard Two months ago Thursday, President Joe Biden fell off his bicycle, spurring plenty of rude derision online. But he is wearing sunglasses now, which somehow symbolizes the resurrection of his presidency. 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