WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah has a raging case of Biden Derangement syndrome, and he served up a concentrated example of it in his March 12 column, in which he ranted about a speech Biden gave on the coronavirus pandemic. Farah purported to highlight the “lies and errors” in the speech, but instead just served up another anti-Biden rant, with a lot of declaring “Stop the tape!” to inject more ranting and petty personal attacks — and serving up his own lies and errors in the process. Let’s break it down, shall we?
“A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked, denials for days, weeks, then months.”
Stop the tape! It was not met with silence nor spread unchecked (except in New York) nor denials for days, weeks, then months. What you left out was where it originated. Not with Donald Trump, but with China.
[…]“While it was different for everyone, we all lost something – a collective suffering, a collective sacrifice, a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. But in the loss, we saw how much there was to gain in appreciation, respect, and gratitude. Finding light in the darkness is a very American thing to do.”
Stop the tape! I know what you lost: Your mind! You have done everything humanly possible to make it worse, including stealing the election.
[…]“The first date, the family reunions, the Sunday night rituals. It all has exacted a terrible cost on the psyche of so many of us. For we are fundamentally a people who want to be with others, to talk, to laugh, to hug, to hold one another. But this virus has kept us apart. Grandparents haven’t seen their children or grandchildren. Parents haven’t seen their kids. Kids haven’t seen their friends.”
Stop the tape: Yes, all these things made people depressed. There has been an epidemic of suicides as a result – among children! Who’s to blame? You and your Democratic friends and the teachers unions.
(Actually, the suicide rate decreased last year.)
“At this very moment, so many of them, our fellow Americans, they’re on the front lines of this pandemic trying to save lives, and still, still, they are forced to live in fear for their lives, just walking down streets in America. It’s wrong, it’s un-American, and it must stop.”
Stop the tape! Vicious hate cries against whom? Where did you get that? It’s a lie. You mean Americans chased down Asian Americans because COVID was started in China? Please share the details of this fantasy.
(You can find them right here, Joe.)
“We continue to work on making at-home testing available, and we’ve been focused on serving people in the hardest hit communities of this pandemic, Black, Latino, Native American, and rural communities. So what does all of this add up to? When I took office 50 days ago, only 8% of Americans after months, only 8% of those over the age of 65 had gotten their first vaccination. Today that number is 65%.”
Stop the tape: Must everything be about race with you?
(When people of color have been the hardest hit by the pandemic, why not?)
“Secondly, at the time every adult is eligible in May we will launch with our partners new tools to make it easier for you to find the vaccine and where to get the shot including a new website that will help you first find the place to get vaccinated and the one nearest you. No more searching day and night for an appointment for you and your loved ones. Thirdly, with the passage of the American Rescue Plan, and I thank, again, the House and Senate for passing it, and my announcement last month of a plan to vaccinate teachers and school staff, including bus drivers, we can accelerate massive nationwide effort to reopen our schools safely. And meet my goal that I stated at the same time about 100 million shots of opening the majority of K-8 schools in my first 100 days in office. This is going to be the No. 1 priority of my new secretary of education, Miguel Cardona.”
Stop the tape: Was that the American Rescue Plan that was full of pork and foreign aid? Was it the one that had only 9 percent for COVID relief?
(In fact, more than 20 percent went toward coronavirus-related public health efforts, and that “foreign aid” is targeted toward coronavirus relief efforts internationally.)
“I say it to foreign leaders and domestic alike. It’s never, ever a good bet to bet against the American people. America is coming back. The development, manufacturing, and distribution of vaccines in record time is a true miracle of science. It’s one of the most extraordinary achievements any country has ever accomplished. And we all just saw the Perseverance Rover land on Mars. Stunning images of our dreams that are now reality.”
Stop the tape: Yes, Joe, and it was Donald Trump’s triumph getting those vaccines out. YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!
(Actually, Trump had no distribution plan beyond shipping vaccines to states.)
“This is the United States of America and there’s nothing, I believe this from the bottom of my heart, nothing we can’t do when we do it together.
“God bless you all and please, God, give solace to all those people who lost someone. And may God protect our troops. Thank you for taking the time and listening. I look forward to seeing you.”
Stop the tape: God help America survive the Biden presidency.
Well, at least Farah is acknowledging that Biden is president, which is a step up from him falsely claiming that Biden stole the election.