The big right wing freakout is underway over how thoroughly President Biden is nailing it

President Joe Biden addressed the nation Thursday evening on the U.S. response to Hamasโs terrorist attack against Israel and Russiaโs ongoing โbrutal warโ against Ukraine. Rather than offer meaningless bluster as we are used to hearing from Republicans, Biden spoke intelligibly and convincingly about the realities of the unfolding situation and what his administration is doing to address them effectively.
How good was Bidenโs speech? It was so good, apparently, that Newsmax couldnโt bear to sit there and let viewers continue watching it. Merely a third of the way into Bidenโs 15-minute speech, host Eric Bolling had enough. Cutting out of the live feed, Bolling complained, โWe really wanted to hear some American resolve. We wanted to hear the American president talk to the world and make it very clear that we Americans arenโt going to put up with what happened in Israel.โ
In the brief minutes that this key address aired on Newsmax, Biden stressed the importance of this moment as an โinflection point in history.โ He condemned Hamas as a โterrorist groupโ that โunleashed pure, unadulterated evil in the world,โ whose โstated purpose for existing is the destruction of the State of Israel and the murder of Jewish people.โ Biden made clear that Israelโs and Ukraineโs success is โvital for Americaโs securityโ and if Hamas and Putin โdonโt pay a price,โ then โchaos and death and more destructionโ will ensue.
Biden wasnโt done showing โsome American resolve,โ as Bolling snarkily put it. Immediately after Newsmax cut away, Biden issued a stark warning about what would happen โif we turn our backs on Israelโ or โwe walk away from Ukraine.โ Biden emphasized that American leadership, alliances, and values guides the world to productive, safe resolutions, and that giving up on either nation means we โput all that at risk.โ With Israel, Biden insisted that the United States must ensure that โthey have what they need to protect their people today and always.โ
Had Newsmax allowed Bidenโs entire speech to air, Bolling and his viewers would also have heard Biden further caution that โtime is of the essence.โ Biden warned that, despite partisan politics, the United States โcannot and will not let terrorists like Hamas and tyrants like Putin win,โ insisting that โI refuse to let that happen.โ
Newsmax may pretend otherwise, but the truth is that Biden said exactly what Bolling claims he failed to say, and Biden did it in a convincing and powerful way. Newsmax interrupted Bidenโs live feed with nonsensible lies because the network couldnโt stand letting Bidenโs outstanding leadership continue being on full display to the American public. Yes, Bidenโs speech was that good.

Ron Leshnower is a lawyer and the author of several books, including President Trump’s Month