And there they go again.
News arrives as follows, this headline from The Hill but one on the subject:
Biden to award Liz Cheney and others with Presidential Citizens Medal
The story reports:
President Biden will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 individuals at the White House on Thursday, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has been an outspoken critic of President-elect Trump and some of his allies.
The medal is awarded to U.S. citizens who have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens,” the White House said in announcing the recipients.
Cheney will be honored for her service in Congress and on the special House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and for speaking out about the importance of democracy. Cheney campaigned with Vice President Harris ahead of November’s election.
Biden has spoken with aides about the prospect of a pardon for Cheney and other Trump critics to protect them against potential politically motivated charges.
Biden will also give the medal to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who served as chair of the Jan. 6 committee.”
In response, over there at Mediaite was this headline:
‘This Is Repulsive’: Fox’s Brit Hume Rips Biden For Awarding Liz Cheney With Presidential Citizens Medal
The longtime Fox anchor tweeted his reaction, saying:
This is repulsive. That investigation was done by a committee all of whose members were chosen by Nancy Pelosi, and was produced like a TV show. There was no cross examination of witnesses. The media fell for it, but it was utterly one-sided. A show trial.
Bingo. Brit Hume got it exactly right.
In fact, Cheney’s behavior as the GOP ranking member of the January 6th Committee was, if anything, reminiscent of the days in the 1950’s when Wisconsin Republican Senator Joe McCarthy was conducting a congressional investigation into alleged “Communists in government,” the Committee and its chairman running a show trial of wild allegations that came to be labeled in history as “McCarthyism.”
(And for those unfamiliar with that term, the Encyclopedia Britannica defines McCarthyism this way:
The term has since become a byname for defamation of character or reputation by means of widely publicized indiscriminate allegations, especially on the basis of unsubstantiated charges.
Make no mistake. Liz Cheney’s conduct — and that of her Committee GOP soulmate then-Congressman Adam Kinzinger, became a politically weaponized assault organized by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was Pelosi who appointed all Committee members from both sides of the House political divide, setting up a result that trashed Trump at every turn, with no dissent allowed. It was a decided assault on the very basics of the Constitution.
Just as Brit Hume says, it was — literally — produced as a TV show, the Committee bringing in the former president of ABC News, James Goldston. Again, Hume’s point: “There was no cross examination of witnesses. The media fell for it, but it was utterly one-sided. A show trial.”
Indeed.
This was not lost on Cheney’s Wyoming constituents, who rejected her bid for re-nomination by defeating her in the GOP primary with Harriet Hageman.
Cheney’s obsession — and obsession it was — with getting Donald Trump ultimately backfired, and backfired badly.
In fact, after watching Cheney’s behavior on the Committee and the behavior of the entire Committee and the left-wing media that lavished it with attention, not only did her own disgusted constituents turn her out of office, Americans went to the polls in November and re-elected Trump in a landslide.
The bottom line: The American Left, whether handholding with Liz Cheney on the January 6 Committee or running the country, is at bottom an authoritarian party that has nothing but contempt for the Constitution.
And for that, President Joe Biden rewards Cheney with the “Presidential Citizens Medal” — a decided and all too obvious contradiction in terms.
One could say “shame” — but this President and Liz Cheney have none for the betrayal of the Constitution exhibited by the January 6th Committee.
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