Joe Biden and his crack team of handlers want you to think he’s powerless, a man beset by bad luck and events out of his control. The truth is that Joe Biden is the problem. Political analyst Eddie Scarry sees it too:

Perry Bacon Jr. — which is the name of a Washington Post writer, not a sandwich at Arby’s — has managed to have the dumbest excuse to date for why Joe Biden’s approval numbers are somewhere between bad and “get this man out of the White House right now before he kills us all.”

Bacon wrote on Monday, presumably with a straight face, that a major factor driving the president’s approval ratings to lower than Donald Trump’s is that the news media’s coverage has been “anti-Biden.” He actually said that.

Naturally, what Bacon refers to is the handful of times reporters actually asked Biden a tough question about something like vaccines or the open border. This is apparently “anti-Biden.”

But, Perry said, it was the disastrous and fatal withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that really did Biden in with the press. “Afghanistan was an important turning point in media coverage for two reasons,” he wrote. “One, it provided journalists the big anti-Biden story that I think many of them were desperate to find. And it drove down Biden’s popularity with the public, giving the media justification for even more coverage that cast the president as struggling.”

Ah, yes! Remember the days of yore when the media were so obviously “desperate” to find a reason to kneecap Biden. The memories are fond.

Scarry’s sarcasm is well-deserved. The media helped elect Joe Biden, and reporters have been little more than a Praetorian Guard for his presidency ever since. Oh, they’ll write the occasional story that has negative news for Biden, but media activists are always contorting things in his defense. Well, unless he goes to Saudi Arabia, which killed one of their buddies.

Perry wrote that he would like for the press to “cover Biden more positively.”

Hey guys, could you put a positive spin on the historic inflation, the new war that Biden is marching us toward, and the record-high gas prices? That would be swell.

Scarry brings it all back home by writing:

Biden isn’t where he is by a stroke of bad luck. His approval rating isn’t embarrassingly low because reporters aren’t giving him enough credit. And his own party’s voters aren’t on their knees praying he doesn’t run for a second term because journalists haven’t properly shown them the silver lining.

Biden isn’t the victim of an awful press. They’re the ones who sold him to America. We’re the victims of the media and his presidency.

Read the whole thing here.