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Unethical Quote of the Month: President Joe Biden
January 11, 2025 / Jack Marshall


“It’s just completely contrary to everything America is about. We want
to tell the truth. We haven’t always done it as a nation. We want to
tell the truth.The idea that, you know, a billionaire can buy something
and say, ‘By the way, we’re not gonna fact check anything,’ and you
know, you have millions of people reading, going online, reading this
stuff. Anyway, I think it’s really shameful.”
—-President Joe Biden, attacking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decision’s to
end its biased, censorious fact-checking system that relied on partisan propaganda operations like PolitiFact and Snopes.

What’s shameful is a President of the United States advocating speech censorship. Like many of Biden’s brain-addled outbursts lately, however,
he has committed the cardinal political sin of saying what he and his puppeteers really believe out loud. So now we know, at least those of us
who weren’t paying attention before and couldn’t read the metaphorical
neon signs flashing before our eyes, Joe Biden and his entire party
advocates the censorship of free speech on social media, including
opinion, adverse positions and anything that might expose its rotting proto-totalitarian party for the threat to democracy it has become.
Thanks, Joe! But it was pretty obvious already.

I’m glad that I have waited to post the resolution of the “Worst
President Ever” inquiry until tomorrow, because so much applicable information has been flowing regarding just how awful Joe Biden has
been. I think all who have read the series carefully have figured out
that the finals are going to come down to Franklin Pierce, James
Buchanan, Woodrow Wilson and Biden, and it doesn’t take a PhD to guess
who the last two competitors will be either. Once I thought the ultimate “winner” was clear-cut, but Joe is fighting for the title to the bitter end.

He and his fellow censors circulated lie after lie before and during the Presidential campaign (among them that only Donald Trump lies) yet Biden
has the astounding brass to talk about wanting to tell the truth. You
know, truth like Biden being sharp as a tack. “Truth” like the border
being secure.


Censorious governments love social media because nothing in the First
Amendment stops the government from “persuading” platforms to censor
speech the government would rather not have to deal with. Corrupt
factcheckers, almost all promoting the Left’s agenda, are only too happy
to be paid to help out. If a privately owned social media platform wants
to blot out opinions, stories, analysis or reports that don’t hew to progressive narratives (like BlueSky is doing now), it isn’t technically “censorship,” but, of course, it is. In fact, it’s government censorship when the message sent from Olympus, as the Twitter Files amply
demonstrated, amounts to a coded, “Nice little platform you have
here….be a shame if anything were to happen to it….on the other hand, we can be mighty generous to our friends…”

To Biden, and at least the 25% of Americans—who are these people?—who
told pollsters this week that he was a good or great (!!!!!) President, shutting down conservative speech is a desirable thing—after all, these people are Nazis and garbage, the truthful Democrats informed us—-and
opening up public forums to unpopular or debatable views is “shameful.”

Prof. Turley has relentlessly flagged the Democrats’ embrace of
censorship; I’m pretty sure it drove him to vote for Donald Trump,
hardly his favorite person. Just going back to July, Turley exposed the
blue censorship campaign here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,
and here. Is Biden’s advocacy for censorship the most blatant by any President? To be fair, John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts,
and Wilson used his own anti-sedition laws during the First World War to imprison war protesters. But America’s respect for free expression
supposedly had advanced since then. Not really: those in power have just
become more cagey about it.

And then Joe had to spoil it all by saying something stupid like “It’s shameful.”

Hit it, Frank and Nancy!

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