{"id":93975,"date":"2023-06-29T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93975"},"modified":"2023-06-29T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:56:11","slug":"93975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93975","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/catherinesalgado\/2023\/06\/28\/joe-biden-putin-is-losing-the-war-in-iraq-n1707000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden: Putin \u2018Is Losing the War\u2019\u2026 \u2018in Iraq\u2019?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russian dictator Vladimir Putin might be winning the war in Ukraine, but never fear \u2014 our esteemed President Joe Biden emerged from his basement to assure us that Putin is \u201closing the war in Iraq.\u201d Such a huge relief.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s no doubt a perfectly normal little gaffe, such as any deteriorating dementia patient might make. And the media is already carefully cutting or justifying the quote to pretend Biden didn\u2019t slip up, or that he just made a tiny mistake. Too bad he said it live on CNN.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden: Putin &quot;is clearly losing the war in Iraq&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c8FdGzrAtG\">pic.twitter.com\/c8FdGzrAtG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Poso \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1674062516618424322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Asked if Putin seemed weakened by the quickly-ended Wagner Group rebellion in Russia, Biden responded with his typical slurred accents, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to tell, but he\u2019s clearly losing the war in Iraq, he\u2019s losing the war at home, and he has, uh, become a bit of a pariah around the world, uh \u2014 it\u2019s not just NATO, it\u2019s not just the European Union, it\u2019s Japan, it\u2019s, you know, it\u2019s forty nations.\u201d Thank goodness, as all the leftists on Twitter are saying, that we have Joe Biden in the White House now instead of Donald Trump. He\u2019s so clearly capable of handling multiple domestic and international crises.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we have a stellar press that is totally objective and not at all committed to shielding a Democrat president no matter what, right? Wrong. Multiple outlets carefully edited out or ignored Biden\u2019s gaffe when writing about his quote, pretending it never happened.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/biden-says-hard-to-tell-if-putin-has-been-weakened-by-recent-events\/ar-AA1da662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, for instance, simply reported Biden\u2019s comments as if he had said Ukraine instead of Iraq:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Biden, speaking to reporters at the White House prior to departing on a trip to Chicago, said Putin was clearly losing the war in Ukraine and \u201che\u2019s losing the war at home, and he has become a bit of a pariah around the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except Biden\u00a0<em>didn\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0say Putin was losing the war in Ukraine. I guess Reuters figured it should report the president\u2019s probable intention instead of his words. Because that\u2019s journalism. Reuters certainly wasn\u2019t the only outlet to cover for Biden, though \u2014 here\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/ukraine\/2023\/06\/28\/ukraine-russia-war-live-updates\/70363559007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>USA Today<\/em>\u00a0running interference<\/a>\u00a0for Joe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing the war in Ukraine and has become \u201ca bit of a pariah around the world,\u201d President Joe Biden said Wednesday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2023-06-28\/biden-says-putin-is-weaker-after-wagner-mutiny-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg did post the clip<\/a>\u00a0including Biden\u2019s mistake, its headline and video description did not acknowledge the mistake. \u201cBiden Says Putin Is Weaker After Wagner Mutiny,\u201d Bloomberg trumpeted. \u201cPresident Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin is weaker after last weekend\u2019s stunning mercenary revolt, but it\u2019s unclear how much his grip on power has slipped. Biden spoke to reporters at the White House.\u201d If Donald Trump had made such an embarrassing mistake on TV, would Bloomberg have treated\u00a0<em>him<\/em> just as seriously?<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/06\/28\/politics\/biden-putin-wagner-group-revolt\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">did admit<\/a>\u00a0the slip-up, but only in passing, totally different from how they always rip apart Donald Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to tell but he\u2019s clearly losing the war,\u201d Biden told reporters on the White House South Lawn, mistakenly referring to the war in Iraq instead of Ukraine.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe Biden is becoming more senile by the day \u2014 he\u2019s not fit to run the country during such dangerous times. Unfortunately, he\u2019s got not only the government but also the media behind him to carry on the charade that he\u2019s perfectly fine and everything is normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden: Putin \u2018Is Losing the War\u2019\u2026 \u2018in Iraq\u2019? Russian dictator Vladimir Putin might be winning the war in Ukraine, but never fear \u2014 our esteemed President Joe Biden emerged from his basement to assure us that Putin is \u201closing the war in Iraq.\u201d Such a huge relief. 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