The erasure of Joe Biden from the national political scene continues apace. Day 2 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention will be remembered for the Regime Media’s collective pining for their favorite president. Case in point, CNN’s John King.

Consider this embarrassing reaction to Barack Obama’s speech (click “expand” for transcript):

CNN's John King, pining for an Obama Restoration with Kamala Harris as its vessel, asserts that there "we weren't in any big wars" during the Obama Administration. The drone strikes must've ordered themselves. pic.twitter.com/wAHETaBf5s

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CNN DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION

8/20/24

11:56 PM

ANDERSON COOPER: Scott, I'm sorry, John King. I want to hear from you.

JOHN KING: I- Anderson, I think you guys have covered the power of the words from the Obamas very well, certainly to rally the base. But I want to focus on something I think is also very powerful tonight- is just the optics of Obama and Michelle Obama, President Obama, Michelle Obama coming on stage, the big embrace, then both speeches. What is Donald Trump doing? He mispronounces her name. He says, “is she black or is she Asian? She's a radical.” He's trying to disqualify Kamala Harris, to somehow make her scary, to somehow make her unacceptable. And there you had our first black President, our first black late- First Lady up on the stage. They didn't say these words, but essentially “We had this for eight years. I was President, she was First Lady. I was re-elected. She was with me. We had a pretty booming economy that we handed off to Donald Trump. This is not weird, this is not strange. We had this for eight years”, and I'll tell you from my travels- you know, first, the first thing Democrats have to do is turn out their base. And if Kamala Harris can get the historic or near historic black turnout that Barack Obama got in his two election campaigns, then that puts her in good stead. It's not enough though. You have to compete and win, or at least break even in the American suburbs, Barack Obama did that twice. In my travels, you meet a lot of people, a lot of Republicans, who maybe didn't vote for Barack Obama, or maybe who did once who remember the Obamas in the White House. They were dignified. They were respectful, they had those cute girls who became beautiful young women in the family. So I think the optics tonight, given how Donald Trump is campaigning against Harris, I think the optics of “oh yeah we did that for eight years, it was pretty good for the country”. Even if you didn't like it, even if you're a Republican who didn't vote for it. We're all still here. Right? We weren't in any big wars at the time. The optics to me, given how Donald Trump is campaigning against the vice president, were almost as important as the very powerful words.

What is King even talking about here? No major wars? Did Osama bin Laden shoot himself in the face? Did the drones just launch themselves? In order to re-elevate Obama to secular godhood, King is compelled to make stuff up. Active disinformation in furtherance of a political narrative.

King speaks here as if the American people themselves did not move on from Obama’s divisive politics (despite Obama’s personal popularity), and as if they forgot his original authoritarianism (siccing the IRS on Tea Party-adjacent groups, suing The Little Sisters of the Poor, prosecuting journalists). 

These things didn’t happen in a vacuum. The People remembered, and chose to move on in 2016. King, along with the rest of the Regime Media, may wish to recast history in order to transfigure Kamala Harris into the next vessel of Hope and Change and thus reclaim that era. Even if it means gaslighting the American people.