Biden's Been Busy - Writing a Book

PPPS (Rehobeth Beach, MD) — With all of the focus these days on President Trump's reckless war on Iran, our economy and our democracy, former President Joe Biden has been surprisingly quiet. So, we sent a crack crew of reporters to Rehobeth Beach, Maryland to find out how Joe has been spending his first year in retirement.

Apparently, President Biden has not just been reclining in a beach chair or riding a bike among the dunes near his Rehobeth Beach vacation home.

Instead, Joe's been busy writing a book!

Naturally, we assumed the book would be about Biden's successful term as President or a lengthy memoir documenting his long political career in DC. Our staff even speculated that the book might be of a more personal nature, a compelling story about his wonderful family, or about some hobby he has taken up in retirement, à la President George W. Bush and his portrait paintings. 

Through exhaustive research and contacts with numerous anonymous sources, our PPPS team of investigative journalists has revealed that Biden's book will actually be on a business topic, a guide so-to-speak for aspiring entrepreneurs, using Biden's own family business success as a model.

In a PPPS exclusive, we have obtained a preliminary copy of the cover design for the book, to be titled Plausible Deniability - How to succeed in family business without really trying.

To quote a spokesperson for the publisher, "President Biden chose not to write the usual self-promoting memoir about his presidency or political career. As the most successful one-term president in American history, his record speaks for itself and is already well-documented. Instead, he chose to continue in his service to our country by illustrating a pathway by which others may achieve their American dream." 

President Biden, because of his exhaustive schedule in retirement, complicated by his heroic battle with health issues, agreed to partner with a ghost writer on the book project. Our research indicates that the name of the ghost writer is Otto Penn, rumored to have previously worked at the White House assisting in the drafting of Biden's numerous executive orders.

In the course of research for this exclusive story, our reporters were unable to personally interview any of the Biden family. However, son Hunter, upon hearing of our investigations, challenged one of our reporters to a sword duel in a post on X.

President Biden's book is scheduled for release this summer.

Night One - DNC Convention

PPPS (Milwaukee)—We asked our resident expert, Political-Beat Pete, to summarize the first night of the Democratic Party National Convention held virtually in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Recognizing that most of our readers are low-information voters and unlikely to watch the convention. Pete chose to simplify the Democrat Party message and juxtapose their positions against those of the Republican Party, in order to present our readers with a clear choice in November. Here is what he came up with. H/T to John Kasich for the idea.

Post comments on what choice you will make in November.

Keep it clean - Pious Pete will be monitoring.

Trump Derangement Syndrome Causes Media Switch To Satire

PPPS (New York)—In a major change of editorial focus, the mainstream media has begun writing satire. Media watchers have diagnosed the problem as a severe bout of Trump Derangement Syndrome, brought on by the recent presidential election.

We can only hope that the ailment is temporary, as continued competition in the satire genre could force layoffs at the Pundit Pete Press Service.

Here is the latest example, from NBC News in the form of a screen capture. (full article link here).

Screen Capture from the NBC News web page

We realize that for the mainstream press, a dinner out for a president-elect or presidential candidate, is usually preceded by a notification:

• either that an important photo opportunity is being made available to the press pool;
• or that, in the case of the Hillary Clinton campaign, an important strategy meeting has been scheduled.

In the later case, of course, the media is invited to dine WITH the candidate. At these dinners, no reporting, audio or video recordings are allowed and certain media outlets are always excluded.

Here is more from the NBC article:

With his Tuesday night actions, the Trump Administration is shaping up to be the least accessible to the public and the press in modern history.

A week after the election, Trump hasn't yet held a press conference, the longest any recent president has waited to speak to the press. That continues a weeks-long drought that's been going on since mid-summer, when Trump last answered questions from the press.

This is really funny stuff. We only wish we had written it ourselves.

NOTE: The NBC satire piece follows closely behind another which appeared in the New York Times.

Best Satire Post Ever - We Wish We Had Done It

PPPS (New York)—The New York Times has just released what could arguably be called the best satire post ever, in the form of a mea culpa letter to its readers. In an amusing twist, The Grey Lady, the Newspaper of Record, has now decided to start practicing journalism.

Here is the letter, H/T to Times reporter Sydney Ember @melbournecoa:

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We have to admit that with the New York Times starting to practice journalism, we may have to look elsewhere for inspiration for our editorial policy:

Current PPPS Editorial Policy:

TRUTH HAS CONSEQUENCES, which is why we try and stay away from it as much as possible.

Previous PPPS Editorial Policy:

We may make stuff up, but at least we're accurate and truthful - kind of like the Mainstream Media, except for the accurate and truthful parts.