Politico is hyping Joe Biden’s marketing campaign to painting Republicans as desirous to make cuts to Social Safety and Medicare. However they’ve very conveniently neglected Biden’s very forceful urging of a spending freeze (or “cuts”) to these packages previously. Satirically, Politico coated the controversy in 2020 which concerned the accusations by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders that Biden supported Social Safety cuts.

First allow us to have a look at Politico Playbook‘s very handy reminiscence loss about Biden and Social Safety cuts of their Monday story about Biden slamming Republicans for desirous to make these cuts regardless that the GOP  has taken it off the desk:

Be looking out this week for Biden and aides to maintain hammering Republicans over their previous remarks about slicing or modifying Medicare and Social Safety. Biden is heading to Maryland on Wednesday for an financial speech the place he’s positive to replay the hits from final week.

Whereas Biden focuses on preserving the packages most essential to American seniors, one administration ally advised us final evening, “Republicans are displaying they wish to enhance the deficit with welfare for the wealthy, proving the President’s warnings about earned advantages proper, and hold fixating on weird conspiracy theories.”

Republicans would say the “weird conspiracy concept” was the president saying Republicans wish to “sundown” (trace: finish) Social Safety in his State of the Union speech. 

As for the present absence of Biden’s earlier assist for freezing Social Safety spending in Politico? Most likely as a result of Biden was so strenuous in assist of these cuts that it underlines his hypocrisy in condemning the GOP on this matter as the next Bernie Sanders marketing campaign video illustrates.

Let’s be sincere, Joe. Certainly one of us fought for many years to chop Social Safety, and one among us didn’t. However don’t take it from me. Take it from you. pic.twitter.com/qh7qb1Hmcl

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 22, 2020

One large cause that it’s so foolish for Politico to now memory-hole Biden’s previous statements on Social Safety is that they coated the controversy on the time during which Biden accused the Sanders marketing campaign of doctoring the video on January 18, 2020 in “Biden costs Sanders camp ‘doctored video’ to assault him.”

Joe Biden accused Bernie Sanders’ marketing campaign Saturday of issuing a “doctored video” to assault him over Social Safety, a false declare that ratcheted up the stress between the 2 campaigns within the run-up to the Iowa caucuses.

Okay then, so again in early 2020, Politico had no drawback labeling Biden’s cost as a “false declare” (i.e. mendacity) but now offers the identical Biden a move by not mentioning the freeze proposed by Biden whereas accusing Republicans of desirous to make Social Safety cuts.