Following his Oscars night slap seen round the world, actor Will Smith should take heart that life really can imitate art. After smacking Chris Rock because the comedian joked about his wife during the Academy Awards ceremony, Smith may feel like his life has become his earlier biopic, “Ali.” But contemporary American politics holds out the promise that it might soon resemble another one of his star vehicles, “Men in Black.”
Those action films featured a high-tech stick called the “neuralyzer” which wipes away inconvenient memories. You can’t buy one on Amazon, but never mind – our leaders in Washington and the media are already achieving its memory-holing effects through other means.
It starts at the top with Joe Biden, who made a trifecta of dangerous gaffes regarding the war in Ukraine: In the span of a few days the president promised to respond to any use of chemical weapons “in kind,” suggested we might send the 82nd airborne into the fray, and made an unambiguous call for regime change in Russia by declaring, “For God’s sake, this man [Vladimir Putin] cannot remain in power!”
When Biden was asked about this trio of incendiary vows, he broke out his rhetorical neuralyzer to claim, “None of the three occurred.”
The partisan liberal media hasn’t held the president to account for this erasure because much of their news coverage also seeks to rewrite the past.
