Corporate TV journalists are so thrilled with President Biden’s decision to step aside that they’ve begun comparing his “selfless” act to George Washington’s choice not to seek re-election in 1796.

Since last night, legacy media have been falling all over themselves to applaud Biden for the supposedly heroic decision to exit a presidential race in which he stood no chance of winning. Gone are the worrisome reports of his creeping mental fatigue and infirmity; he’s transformed quite literally overnight from an incompetent candidate to a valiant savior of “democracy.”

It’s worth noting that when searching for clips of people comparing Biden to George Washington, we noticed a fairly telling pattern. On CNN, almost everyone making this absurd comparison was an elected Democrat, whereas on MSNBC, the comparisons were coming from the network’s own talking heads. And actually, that’s a pretty great analogy for the difference between those two networks on the whole: CNN is a willing platform for Democrats’ political messaging, whereas on MSNBC, “journalists” flat-out recite the political messaging themselves.

Apparently these two cable networks have done away with the notion that George Washington was a racist, slave-owning white man — at least for long enough to use his memory to heap excessive praise on Joe Biden: