Last night, Joe Biden gave his first prime time address since he became President.
Biden, who still hasn’t held a press conference and who still hasn’t delivered a State of the Union, reminded the public just why the White House is so firmly determined on hiding him from the media: because he is a complete catastrophe when he speaks.
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The speech was dreadful even by Biden standards. He rambled, looked lost, and delivered cringe-worthy attempts at “showing emotion.”
It was more Saturday Night Live than Lincoln, but you wouldn’t know that if you didn’t witness it yourself.
If you just watch and read the coverage of the speech, and skipped the speech itself, you would get the impression that Biden delivered an absolute masterclass in oration last night – instead of the confusing mess he delivered in fact.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 12, 2021
Politico, playing the role of Baghdad Bob for Biden and the DNC, completely blatantly drooled all over the speech, comparing it to Reagan after the Challenger disaster and George W Bush after 9/11:
“But it is worth taking a moment to dwell on this unique pastoral role of the presidency, if only because it has been absent for the last four years and because Biden is being widely praised for restoring it.
Whether it’s a natural disaster, a war, a terrorist attack, a mass shooting — some devastating event that shocks Americans equally and temporarily suspends the usual divisions — for better or worse we turn to the president not just to push and pull the levers of government in response, but also to console us.
The images of those moments are indelible: RONALD REAGAN speaking after the Challenger disaster, BILL CLINTON memorializing the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, GEORGE W. BUSH with a bullhorn on a pile of rubble, and BARACK OBAMA wiping away tears describing the Sandy Hook massacre.”
Not to be overshadowed, CNN’s Chris Cillizza – who had a hilarious claim once that journalists don’t root for one side or the other – treated the speech from Joe Biden like a national therapy session:
“The return of empathy: Biden made a single gesture in the speech that demonstrated the empathy he operates with vis a vis the lives lost to this pandemic. He pulled a card out of his jacket pocket — which he said he keeps with him wherever he goes — and read off the exact, up-to-date number of Americans who have died from the coronavirus. (That number is more than 527,000.)
Yes, of course, Biden did that for dramatic effect. But it worked. And it drove home the idea that this is a leader who keeps those who have died from the pandemic close to his heart — literally. It also provided a not-so-subtle contrast with Trump’s overt politicization of the virus and those who succumbed to it.”
Watching Joe Biden speak reminds us of the old Chuck E. Cheese animatronics that would sing.
The mouth is moving but no one is home. pic.twitter.com/IKFyl5c7W6
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) March 12, 2021
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s “fact-checker” could only find two moments that Biden “stretched the truth,” which is evidently the new interpretation for what they called “lying” when President Trump spoke.
While the majority of American people who actually tuned into the speech saw a confusing mess from a person clearly in over his head, the Washington Post’s Jen Rubin saw poetry!
“The speech itself was sober in retrospect and optimistic in the forecast. Biden recalled our “collective suffering” and the heroic efforts of scientists and health-care professionals. He poetically announced, “Finding light in the darkness is a very American thing to do. In fact, it might be the most American thing we do.”
As he is wont to do, Biden commiserated with the loss of life and the economic turmoil, the educational interruption and the missed family occasions. Ironically, he said, we found unity in suffering. “While it was different for everyone, we all lost something.”
The breakneck speed of journalism’s treatment of the White House, going from lead prosecutor to lead defense attorney in less than two months, is almost as comic as it is foreseeable.
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The media completely embarrassed itself in the way they conducted themselves during the Trump years and it was unimaginable that they could degrade their profession anymore, but here we are.
Now more than ever, conservatives and those American people interested more in the truth than partisan hackery must back up and invest in independent journalism. Obviously, the legacy media is broken.
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