By Dave Andrusko

Could there be a less surprising choice of the two-headed TIME “Person of the Year” than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? 

No, actually, there couldn’t be.

TIME and virtually the entirety of its journalist brethren spent four years working to undermine the first term of pro-life President Donald Trump and deny him a second. Choosing Biden/Harris is like taking a victory lap. And TIME patted itself on the back in a series of stories about its choice  selection.

Here are just two quick thoughts.

First, the story written by Corky Siemaszko for NBC News about the choice. It is a primer in media bias, distortion, and one-sidedness. 

One of the costs of shrinking media revenues  is the absence of copy editors. Clearly, this story was not edited—but I suppose it didn’t need to be. Anything that bashed Trump would suffice.

Second,  there is TIME Editor-in-Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal’s softball interview with Biden “edited for clarity.” Biden is as wonderful and uniting as Trump is awful and divisive. What does it say that although the theme is “uniting” the country, the second question is about “pardoning” President Trump?!

As bad as that was, the introduction (and presumably the way the piece was edited) by Madeleine Carlisle was worse. Every problem—real and imaginary—is the “legacy” of Donald Trump. Not a syllable of praise or even acknowledgement.

But try as I wanted to avoid it, I need to say just a word about the major piece written by Charlotte Alter about the Biden and Harris team. Unless you work for the Democrat Party, or hate Donald Trump so much you instinctively attribute unbelievable qualities to his opponent, her long, long post will, at best, leave you scratching your head, at worst, wondering who are these people because they sure aren’t the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the rest of us know.