It is only fitting that a media that ushered in the Biden presidency with an obvious fiction would see it off with another.

President Biden, who until last June was shielded by a news media complicit in the fantasy that he was physically and mentally fit to serve as president, delivered his farewell address on Jan. 15.

Unsurprisingly, the speech was a cliché-laden mess, littered liberally with clumsily cribbed bits of speeches delivered by presidents far more capable, beloved and consequential than himself. It was a bad speech.

You’d never know this from listening to the coverage. If you get your news from the people who until recently insisted Biden was “sharp as a tack,” you’d never know that his pitiful, final wheeze was a 100 percent forgettable dud.

Indeed, the industry that told you Biden was up to the rigors of the presidency thinks his farewell address was a masterstroke in statesmanship.

“In some ways, this builds on the message, the themes we’ve always heard from him that he is fighting for the soul of this nation,” effused NBC News’s Kristen Welker, calling it a “speech for the history books.”

At ABC News, the address was described as a “defense of democracy,” with ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce characterizing it as a “challenge” to “Americans and the nation to carry [Biden’s] work forward.”

“He underscored the importance of American democracy and the need to protect it,” she added.

At CBS, the address was........

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