Posted on 07/04/2024 7:19:30 PM PDT by Libloather
The White House is frantically moving to get President Joe Biden in front of cameras and crowds on an expedited schedule this July 4th weekend after growing calls from within his party to step down after his debate disaster.
Biden's handlers had already put in place a taped, sit-down interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos to try to fend off calls from lawmakers and donors to demonstrate that he is still up to the task of campaigning.
But after a Wednesday meeting with the nation's governors that failed to quell mounting calls for his ouster from the Democratic ticket, ABC announced hours later that the entire interview - which had been slated to air in pieces over Saturday and Sunday mornings - would now air in one shot, on Friday night.
The prime time 8 pm broadcast will give Americans their first extensive look at the president in a Q&A format - albeit not live - since Biden trailed off, rattled off odd phrases, and appeared to lose his train of thought repeatedly during Thursday's debate with Donald Trump.
'The down-ballot freak-out from elected Democrats has not ebbed, and the negative media coverage and information flow about Biden's debate debacle has only intensified,' former Mitt Romney senior advisor Kevin Madden told DailyMail.com.
'As a result, the White House is motivated more by necessity than design to schedule a major interview. There's an urgency to get the President out there so he can address the blowback directly.'
But the move follows days of lost time when senior members of his own party raised doubts about his candidacy and three elected Democrats have called on him to step back.
'Friday is still a tardy response, given that this controversy will have been spiraling for over a week, but waiting until Sunday would...
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“I know I’m not a young man, I don’t walk as easy or speak as smoothly or debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong and I know how to do this job.”
Joe Biden
Note the date and read this:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/06/29/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-reception-east-hampton-ny/
You just said “no-nothing young people don’t watch on Friday nights”. Aren’t these the ones he needs to reach? Haven’t the others made up their minds? Actually he needs to convince not the voters, but the media. Democrat voters take their cues from the media and the bureaucrats.
Quite edited I’m certain.
Quotes:
Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, describes what happened after a teacher called her brother “Mr. Buh-buh-buh Biden” as he recited an assignment in class.
Their mother, she says, marched Biden back to school and confronted his teacher head-on: “‘Sister, did you make fun of my son? … if you ever, ever, ever do that again, I’m going to come back and I’m going to knock your bonnet right off your head. Do we understand each other?’”
The bullying Biden endured on account of his stuttering would prove to be formative.
To prove he is mentally fit, dementia free, he could have a team of doctors examine his brain and make the results public, in about two days. But he can’t do that. Why?
The stuttering thing is like when a MLB player raped two 14 year olds and gets caught with Crack.
His agent says - he admits to an alcohol problem.
There are thousands of hours of Joe Biden speaking in the Senate, and there’s not a single hint of a stutter. In fact, Biden had the reputation for loving to talk and his speeches went forever.
I’ve haven’t seen one family story from the Bidens that’s not a BS story that always has the Bidens as heroes.
“I know I’m not a young man, I don’t walk as easy or speak as smoothly or debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong and I know how to do this job.”
Joe Biden”
I am a 76 year old flight instructor. I am competent. I must have a flight review ever two years. If I was as competent as Joe Biden I would be flunked before I got in the aircraft. The oral part of the pre-flight would reveal my incompetence.
I know flight instructors younger that I that can not pass that biannual flight review. I also know a couple older than I that are totally competent.
Joe is not competent.
Surely viewership is higher Friday night than Sunday morning. That said, I’ll agree that the target audience is the donors/down ballot Democrats, et al.
I’d venture to say they moved it up because Joey Boy is probably not going to be in the game much longer.
A summer Friday evening of what is for most people a four-day weekend. Everyone is at the beach or a ballgame or barbequeing or just generally relaxing and no one wants to see and hear Biden.
Ol’ Joe has had quite the day!
Dang…I’ll be out Friday evening.
I used to studiously avoid watching/listening to Democrats. (Clinton’s and Obama’s voices made my skin crawl.) But with Biden, it’s the train wreck thing.
I’ll be hitting FR as soon as I get home to see how it went.
Today:
Biden says he is ‘first black woman to serve with a black president’
President commits yet another verbal gaffe on Philadelphia radio station
perfect put a man with advanced Alzheimer’s under more stress, wont work out to well for them or him
It will likely look like a dubbed 70s kung fu movie. The lip movement and voice don’t match.
It won’t be long and Biden’s puppet masters just put him in front of a camera chewing gum then dub in like with Mister Ed.
I can give you $240 million reasons why President Taco Jill and her consort Pinocchio will NOT go voluntarily.
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