Real-Time History Rewrite: CBS Casts Biden
as LBJ
Newsbusters,
by
Jorge Bonilla
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/23/2024 12:53:02 AM
The first draft of history, specifically, President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from his campaign to seek reelection, is being rewritten in real time. In addition to being likened to Washington and Cincinnatus, Biden is now drawing media comparisons to Lyndon Baines Johnson. Watch as CBS’s Mark Strassman points out an underreported parallel in the presidents’ decisions to step aside: LYNDON JOHNSON: I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. MARK STRASSMAN: Updegrove says that decision, like President Biden's to step aside, was more than political. There were health concerns. MARK UPDEGROVE: LBJ truly believed
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 7/23/2024 1:27:32 AM (No. 1764027)
CBS like the rest of the Main Stream Media have lost all credibility after hiding Biden's dementia . The debate showed his true condition they are not being listened to anymore--they lie as a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party and the great majority see it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 7/23/2024 1:29:48 AM (No. 1764028)
Biden as LBJ from the standpoint that they were the most corrupt, evil individuals ever to occupy the Oval Office. And both acquired their presidency as a result of a crime.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 7/23/2024 1:39:40 AM (No. 1764030)
Well, If Biden is playing the part of LBJ, then Harris is playing the part of Humphrey, and will go down in a defeat to Trump, with RFK, Jr playing the part of George Wallace....a third party spoiler who carried 5 states.
RFK, Jr as Wallace? Yikes. That doesn't "rhyme". And Trump is no Nixon, either. Joe is about as corrupt and vicious as LBJ, though. Typical Dems, corrupt and vicious, both pandering to blacks for votes while actually hating them.
While the other "players" may be very different in character, the Biden-LBJ fit isn't nearly as bad. And LBJ had gotten a lot of folks killed in a war, too.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
john56 7/23/2024 2:22:20 AM (No. 1764039)
At least LBJ had the intestinal fortitude (as well as the cajones) to get on national TV and say "I'm done."
I was 12 years old at the time and remember seeing it on TV. Probably the old black-and-white Philco console set we had in the family room. I think it was a white wood cabinet.
He knew his health was questionable -- he died of a heart attack within four years of leaving office.
Sleepy Creepy Crooked Senile President Uncle Joe couldn't even sit for a picture signing the letter.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/23/2024 2:23:49 AM (No. 1764040)
LBJ was also a racist and locked the black population into government dependence for decades with the infamous Civil Rights Act. We are still paying for that problem today. Biden attempted to tighten that noose with student loan forgiveness but failed because it is illegal and immoral, like most of his "accomplishments."
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PostAway 7/23/2024 5:41:23 AM (No. 1764085)
How low in a gutter does one have to be to think a comparison to LBJ is reaching for the stars?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
5 handicap 7/23/2024 5:43:07 AM (No. 1764087)
There might be some validity to the comparison... How's that you ask?
They were both criminal scum who got America into a morass they could not escape!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/23/2024 6:54:29 AM (No. 1764107)
Don't say that too loud. Biden might try to pick his dog Major up by his ears like LBJ did to his dogs.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/23/2024 7:26:53 AM (No. 1764149)
Well... Both were tall, liars and generally evil men. LBJ was a serial murderer the way a mafia Don, is. Biden might have been better at covering his tracks. Both are rude, angry men.
LBJ had Bassett hounds he used to swing around by the ears. Biden has Commander, who bit every USSS agent he met.
Both tried to have their political opponents assassinated. LBJ's marksman didn't miss. Both had pasties ready to take the blame.
Waddya know! They ARE pretty similar.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/23/2024 9:18:01 AM (No. 1764252)
LBJ was a mean, vindictive, spiteful, dangerous man, a womanizer, and a devious bully. Those are indeed traits shared by Joe Biden.
LBJ = Great Society
JRB = Lost Society
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
robertthomason 7/23/2024 10:05:57 AM (No. 1764308)
I watched LBJ give his speech in 1968. I was 21. I've always thought LBJ got out because McCarthy got 42% of the vote in the NH primary. Nobody mentioned his health as an issue. He almost died when he had his heart attack in the 50's. Yet, he was a candidate in 1960. As we all know, when Johnson withdrew, RFK got in. So, maybe there are some vague similarities to 1968, like having the convention in Chicago.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/23/2024 11:08:24 AM (No. 1764340)
LBJ got out in March, after only 1 primary, that he had actually won....not mid july after ALL of the primaries were over.(actually at the time Dems picked only about half of their delegates via primaries, the rest were closed, in house, back room, conventions and caucuses. Humphrey wasn't even competing in the public primaries, focused instead on the state convention/caucus delegates)
MLK was assassinated 4 days later.
Not only was LBJ's Vietnam war an issue, there were major riots in Watts, Spanish Harlem, Rochester, Detroit, Baltimore, Newark, New Britain conn, Birmingham, hundreds killed, thousands of US Troops deployed. He also sent troops to Panama, and had to send the Marines to Dominican Republic after a revolution/coup(plus 2 divisions of the 82nd airborne to Detroit) The Soviets took Czechoslovakia, Revolution in Greece, China got "The Bomb",Castro assassinated Che. Arab/Israeli 6 days war. Norks seized the "Pueblo"...Tet Offensive was rebuffed, but US media(particularly Cronkite) declared it a victory for Ho, and a massive defeat for US/South Vietnamese forces.
Yes, RFK also jumped in at that point...he had resigned as AG to set up an eventual Presidency run, took a series of "quiet polls" to decide whether to do so as Governor of Mass, or as senator from New York(the machine would deliver either seat) He opted for NY.
LBJ only became VP under JFK because of media ploy that backfired on JFK, LBJ had been offered the seat with the full expectation that he would decline, the 2 men despised each other, and had bashed each other quite publicly since 1958. When LBJ accepted, RFK was sent to try to talk him out of it.LBJ rebuffed him.
The entire thing was "anti democratic" hidden figures making back room deals, unelected powers making decisions in private, same as now.
Oh...riots at Columbia University then as well.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/23/2024 11:36:39 AM (No. 1764379)
How appropriate...LBJ said, Pass this civil rights bill and the "N's" will vote for us for the next 100 years.
Joey was best buds with Robert Byrd, the KKK Grand Wizzard...ALL of them as racist as the day is long!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
broken01 7/23/2024 11:39:18 AM (No. 1764385)
LBJ and JRBJR are similar. Especially of how both viewed Black Americans in word and deed. So, it stands to reason that C the BS casts the latter as being like the former.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
navybrat 7/23/2024 1:10:13 PM (No. 1764496)
It is not Biden's decision to withdraw. Remember when Joe said, "no one Fs with a Biden". He did not want to go, and Jill did not want him to go. There is going to be some revenge coming down. If Joe is unable to carry it out, I am sure Jill and Hunter will step up to the plate. After all, where will they get millions in family income and how will Hunter be able to have buyers for his finger paintings.
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