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Say It Ain’t So, Joe: CBS Reporter Draws Ire Of Biden For Asking Substantive Question
Jonathan Turley ^ | November 22, 2020

Posted on 11/22/2020 5:54:28 AM PST by McGruff

We have been discussing the embarrassing failure of the media to ask President-elect Joe Biden any difficult questions throughout the campaign and creating a type of protective journalistic cocoon around him. That pattern has continued after the election with pre-selected reporters asking laughingly soft ball questions to Biden while continuing a virtual blackout on such stories as the Hunter Biden influence peddling controversy.

Then something bizarre happened yesterday. A reporter actually asked Biden a real question. CBS News reporter Bo Erickson asked Biden about whether he would support the CDC rather than the teacher’s union on closing schools. Biden’s response was a personal attack on the reporter. This is simply not done and will not be tolerated. After all, think of the chaos: the entire press corps would be expected to ask questions and Biden would be expected to answer them.


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Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools.
1 posted on 11/22/2020 5:54:28 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Now that he has apparently won, Joe Birdbrain can now show his true colors.


2 posted on 11/22/2020 5:59:45 AM PST by antidemoncrat (Biden's )
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To: antidemoncrat

President Free For All will be placed in storage soon while the cabal gets to work.


3 posted on 11/22/2020 6:03:16 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: McGruff
CBS News reporter Bo Erickson asked Biden about whether he would support the CDC rather than the teacher’s union on closing schools. Biden’s response was a personal attack on the reporter.

Because that question simply means the CDC and the teacher's unions haven't coordinated their talking points yet - and as a footsoldier of the Revolution, Erickson was supposed to have known to keep his mouth shut about any administrative discrepancies until the Party can correct them. Biden was right to be angry at this betrayal - in more progressive nations, Erickson would be headed straight to the gulag for his impudence.. /s

4 posted on 11/22/2020 6:03:22 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: antidemoncrat

Biden has cracked already and he’s even President yet. Pardon my use of the word cracked. Maybe Camilla will have him committed so she can take over.


5 posted on 11/22/2020 6:11:19 AM PST by McGruff (Dominion Voting Systems - you vote, we'll decide)
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To: McGruff

Face it. Joe Biden at his core is a criminal. During 47 years of public service he achieved great wealth, the Hunter hard drives demonstrated that he sold his office and used his addicted, diseased son as his bagman. What sort of behavior do you expect from a criminal? They do not appreciate being confronted in any way.He is too impaired mentally to even hide his base emotions . The MSM went far beyond bias and colluded with this criminal. The MSM has no integrity or credibility.They can never be forgiven for the harm they have done to the nation and the American people.


6 posted on 11/22/2020 6:11:34 AM PST by allendale
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To: McGruff

“Who are asking Biden these questions?? It’s like watching someone make sure a 3 year old wins CandyLand.”

Mark Hemingway


7 posted on 11/22/2020 6:13:17 AM PST by Junk Silver (Old FR maxim: "You can't steal a landslide." Joe Biden: "Hold my beer...")
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To: McGruff

Just the thought of Biden meeting with Pelosi & Schumer is sickening. Really.


8 posted on 11/22/2020 6:14:02 AM PST by Qiviut (Fox "News": Unfair, Unbalanced & Unhinged. #Foxit)
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To: McGruff

Then, he asked him what flavor ice cream he liked best and he settled down


9 posted on 11/22/2020 6:19:31 AM PST by chuckee
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To: antidemoncrat

I still think that, once Biden is sworn in, the MSM will pressure him to resign in favor of Kamala the Progressive.


10 posted on 11/22/2020 6:20:32 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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I still think that, once Biden is sworn in, the MSM will pressure him to resign in favor of Kamala the Progressive.

I think so. The installed a boob and they know it.

11 posted on 11/22/2020 6:21:51 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: antidemoncrat

Democrats always treat reporters like doormats. They don’t care.


12 posted on 11/22/2020 6:22:13 AM PST by lodi90
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To: McGruff

This will happen more and more as this goes on. He can’t hide his emotion. He stands up there and smiles and knows all the questions will be easy. Then someone goes off script and he flips. They started to corner his about nation wide lockdowns. They simply did the same thing they have done to Trump for years. They asked him the same question but in a different way. And he almost lost it. He started to raise his voice because he has mentioned lockdowns and his same line about following the science. They asked him what if the science says to nation wide lockdown. Lol. He got red with him. Which by the way we all now know he has no actual plan about handling COVID. He is only doing what Trump has already been doing. And watch him try to take credit for the vaccine now.


13 posted on 11/22/2020 6:23:22 AM PST by glimmerman70
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To: central_va

I think so. The installed a boob and they know it.


They needed a White male to win the election. Now they can discard Joe. They made sure to pick someone who was both reassuring to older White Americans and someone weak-willed who they could bulldoze or run-out-of-town w/o too much trouble.

Unlike Trump, Joe will go full catatonic after one hostile NYT or WAPO editorial.


14 posted on 11/22/2020 6:25:13 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Biden was right to be angry at this betrayal - in more progressive nations, Erickson would be headed straight to the gulag for his impudence.. /s


In the soon-to-be HarrisBiden progressive nation, Erickson will be headed straight to the gulag for his impudence.

note lack of /s tag


15 posted on 11/22/2020 6:26:05 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: rbg81

I think Joe is in on the deal. He will want to step down for medical reason. He will putter around for a year or so muttering about Charlottesville and the KKK then call it quits.


16 posted on 11/22/2020 6:27:43 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: lodi90
Democrats always treat reporters like doormats. They don’t care.

Obama treated reporters like the supreme intellectuals they believe themselves to be, taking them so very seriously, and that was, and is, the root of their mutual love affair.

17 posted on 11/22/2020 6:38:05 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: rbg81

I still think that, once Biden is sworn in, the MSM will pressure him to resign in favor of Kamala the Progressive.


18 posted on 11/22/2020 6:41:23 AM PST by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: rbg81

Always the plan. Harris was so unpopular that she was the first Dem to drop out of the Primary. So, as she is needed to implement their Socialist agenda, she was backdoored in the VP slot. Biden will have an ‘accident’ or something comparable, shortly after his ‘inauguration’, IF he is unlawfully inaugurated.


19 posted on 11/22/2020 6:45:51 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: central_va

I seriously doubt it will be as long as a year.
I give Harris and the party about six months to
clear the deck and Joe will gracefully exit stage
left. It will make the Wellstone funeral look
positively bland.

I could be wrong but I just don’t see the leading
cadre accepting playing second fiddle to an addled
gaff prone figurehead for any longer than necessary
to grasp the levers of power.


20 posted on 11/22/2020 6:51:38 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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