On Monday night, MSNBC's The ReidOut continued an all-day theme in the leftist media of swooning over President Biden's trip to Ukraine, which he took despite failing to pay a visit to his own citizens suffering in the working-class town of East Palestine, Ohio that had been poisoned by a toxic train derailment. Regardless, MSNBC's pseudo-historian Michael Beschloss wants you to believe Biden's trip to Ukraine was the bravest thing a president has done since Abraham Lincoln visited a Civil War battleground in 1864. Yes, the same Biden that took five deferments from serving in Vietnam was brave according to Beschloss.
When asked by host Joy Reid what he thought of Biden's Ukraine excursion, Beschloss pompously claimed "what Biden did today goes straight through two centuries of proud American history."
"To find a day of this kind of presidential bravery in a war zone, you got to go all the way back to 1864, July, when Abraham Lincoln as President went to see confederate soldiers were firing on Washington, D.C," Beschloss claimed.
According to the phony historian, Biden isn't only like Lincoln, but he's also similar to James Madison:
1814, James Madison is President. This is how rare this is. Went to Bladensburg, Maryland, an area that we both know pretty well, Joy. And there was a battle of Bladensburg. The Brits were just about to conquer Washington, D.C., just as they were as an enemy soldier, group of enemy soldiers was in 1864. So James Madison went on the battlefield and said, you know, I'm President. I'm showing how determined we are to resist the Brits.
It gets even better for Biden, at least in Beschloss's confused mind. Joe Biden's Ukraine field trip was akin to George Washington's service in the French and Indian War.
"George Washington in 1754, before he was president, long before, was in the French and Indian War of all things and he was in danger of being killed himself. He wrote to his brother, the bullets whistled past me, and I found something charming in the sound," Beschloss preached. "That's what presidential bravery in wartime is. Joe Biden goes all the way back to that."
The idiocy of Beschloss's comparisons should be self-evident. For those who don't grasp it, comparing a presidential visit in the year 2023 with all the modern-day Secret Service protection and other protective measures to Lincoln, Madison, and Washington's visits to battlegrounds where there was little to no security is like comparing apples and oranges.
The same Joe Biden who refused to fight for his country in Vietnam wasn't going to risk his life to visit a country engulfed in a war the United States has little to do with, other than giving billions in aid.
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MSNBC’s The ReidOut
2/20/2023
7:08:26 p.m. EasternMICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Yeah, I think what Biden did today goes straight through two centuries of proud American history. Just what you said earlier, Joy. Presidents -- let's say that LBJ and Nixon used to go to Vietnam, but they’d appear on an American air base that was pretty well controlled. To find a day of this kind of presidential bravery in a war zone, you got to go all the way back to 1864, July, when Abraham Lincoln as President went to see confederate soldiers were firing on Washington, D.C.
On the brink of taking it over, and literally, Lincoln got up and some guy behind him who didn't know it was the President said, get down you fool. And Lincoln turned around, and I wouldn't have liked to be that guy seeing the President's face of disdain. Asking who the guy was. But Lincoln was there to show determination, to see the Civil War through. 1814, James Madison is President. This is how rare this is. Went to Bladensburg, Maryland, an area that we both know pretty well, Joy. And there was a battle of Bladensburg. The Brits were just about to conquer Washington, D.C., just as they were as an enemy soldier, group of enemy soldiers was in 1864.
So James Madison went on the battlefield and said, you know, I'm President. I'm showing how determined we are to resist the Brits. It goes back to one other thing. George Washington in 1754, before he was President, long before, was in the French and Indian War of all things and he was in danger of being killed himself. He wrote to his brother, the bullets whistled past me, and I found something charming in the sound. That's what presidential bravery in wartime is. Joe Biden goes all the way back to that.
