Commentary
The problem with stories like Joe Biden’s docudrama is that the punditocracy acts like a school of piranha gobbling up a Bond villain.
There’s a lot of commotion. It’s hard to see clearly.
I, myself, have written about the classified documents uncovered in Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, then in the garage at his Delaware home, then, in at least two places, in his Delaware house proper.
That’s as of Jan. 15. Who knows how many more documents will be found?
But here’s the oddity. The entire episode, though under the klieg lights of publicity, is wrapped in a shroud of several mysteries.
For example, who leaked the news to CBS that classified documents had been found in Biden’s office at the Washington office of a University of Pennsylvania think tank named for Biden?
We don’t—anyway, I don’t—know the answer to that question.
The CBS report that broke the story last week was carefully, and almost comically, orchestrated to be pro-Biden. Every other line, it seemed, stressed the differences between the case of Biden harboring classified documents and that of former President Donald Trump.
Biden’s case was unfortunate, yes, but not to worry. There were only a few documents.
