Among the Newsmax columnists taking shots at President Biden after his withdrawal from the 2024 election was Michael Dorstewitz — but his July 22 column added a little something extra. He began with the usual right-wing ranting:
When President Joe Biden called it quits on his reelection campaign Sunday, he left the world more dangerous than he had found it, and made America much weaker.
[…]From Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, leaving 13 American service members dead and hundreds of Americans behind, to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s admission Friday that Iran was “one or two weeks” away from producing fissile material to manufacture a nuclear weapon, he made the world a tinderbox.
He then moved on to bashing Kamala Harris as having “exhibited nothing but incompetence as vice president, and if the past is an accurate prediction of the future, she’d be a poor draw to lead the ticket.”
Dorstewitz also made a needlessly big deal out of Barack Obama not immediately endorsing Harris, spreading the conspiracy theory that he was pulling Biden’s strings — with the help of the ConWeb’s favorite charlatan filmmaker:
Many observers believe he got his wish of a third term with Biden — but it’s about to come to a close.
And with Harris less popular than Biden, Obama won’t get a fourth term — unless.
Two years ago filmmaker Joel Gilbert released a book titled, “Michelle Obama 2024: Her Real Life Story and Plan for Power.”
The former first lady has repeatedly claimed she has no interest in cashing in her popularity to seek elective office, but Gilbert believes it’s all a sham.
He’s been denounced as a conservative conspiracy theorist, but how many “conspiracy theories” have turned out to be accurate?
Actually, many of Gilbert’s conspiracy theories have been proven to be outright lies, from his claim that Obama’s mother posed nude for Frank Marshall Davis to his utterly discredited claim that there is writing in Arabic on Obama’s wedding ring to the conspiracy-related music documentary films that he later rebranded as “mockumentaries.” That’s all reason enough to never trust anything Gilbert puts out — but he’s saying the magic words that make right-wing ideologues like Dorstewitz swoon. And despite Gilbert’s record, which Dorstewitz couldn’t be bothered to investigate, Dorsetwitz invoked him again anyway:
Then again, if Joel Gilbert’s prediction is correct and Michelle Obama becomes the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer, she may nominate Harris as her running mate.
After all, she makes the perfect vice president.
Her incompetence and lack of popularity make her president nearly impeachment proof.
Actually, the incompetent one here is Gilbert — which Dorstewitz would know if he had bothered to do even the slightest bit of research before he wrote his column.