Posted on 03/08/2024 5:54:24 AM PST by Red Badger
Immediately following President Biden’s State of the Union Address Thursday night, CNN’s band of liberal anchors (Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and Abby Phillip) praised his attacks on former President Trump, his “fight,” and tried to do damage control for his plethora of senior moments.
Tapper made sure to tout how Biden alluded to Trump 13 times (ABC counted 16) during the address. Once he quickly exhausted all the nice things he had to say, Tapper awkwardly pivoted to trying to downplay Biden’s bumbling, stumbling, and disgraceful mispronunciation of Laken Riley’s name (the young college student Biden’s open border policies killed) by calling her “Lincoln”:
Um, his presentation, his enunciation, of course, is not as clear as it once was a decade or two ago. His mind did seem fairly sharp. He ad-libbed a response to a pretty harsh moment, as some heckling about the tragic murder of UGA student Laken Riley, he got her name wrong. He called her Lincoln Riley, but as a general note, he condemned her murder, which was something that people were talking about.
“You've been to a lot of State of the Union addresses. Do you think that President Biden met the moment?” he asked Bash.
Bash quickly proclaimed: “He certainly met the moment that his members of his party, those who are really upset and worried about this coming election year and frankly, what would happen if he didn't win another time because of their concerns about who's on the other side of the ticket. They wanted him to be a fighter and boy fight did he deliver.”
She also bristled at Biden’s critics. “Now, there is some criticism already that we're hearing from some Republicans that it was too political. And the retort already is: Compared to what?” she openly scoffed, “I mean, you saw Marjorie Taylor Greene sitting there wearing a MAGA hat.”
The comment about the MAGA hat was Bash still fuming from before Biden started speaking. When some of her colleagues noted that Congresswoman Greene (R-GA) was wearing the hat, she snapped that hats were “not allowed” on the House floor.
Phillip was much more shamelessly open with the pleasure she got from watching the address. She loved how Biden “trolled” Republicans and they fell into the “trap” set by the White House:
What's so striking to me is that Republicans, I think because they their whole thing right now is that Joe Biden is slow, that he's too old, that he can't do this, they walk into this trap every time that the White House sets for them.
Their speaker, Mike Johnson, tried to counsel them not to heckle, not to react in this way. And they did it. And it creates an opening, an opportunity for Joe Biden to react. He said to them, “I know you know how to read.” He had he had a lot of moments where he was kind of trolling them, and that worked for him in this speech, because that's essentially, at the end of the day, this was a speech about all the things that presidents make speeches about.
But the question before Joe Biden today that he needed to answer the most was, how does he present to the American public? Republicans, it seemed to me, really handed him a golden opportunity on multiple occasions during the speech to do exactly what his aides wanted him to do, which was show some fight, show his ability to react in the moment.
Ignoring Biden’s gross praise for Russian prescription drug prices, his attacks on the Supreme Court Justices in front of him, his mispronunciation of Riley’s name, and the nonsensical rambling, Phillips proclaimed there were no “major gaffes.”
BTTT
As long as this keeps Biden on the ticket we should be thrilled.
This is the guy you want to run against—and defeat in a landslide so brutal that the Deep State will just turn off the cheat machine and laugh at the slaughter—and say “we will do it next time”.
We’ll know when we’re on the right track when we see Biden lickers like these dangling from freeway overpasses.
So ... he screamed at Republicans for an hour or so ... but on the other hand ... Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a hat. So let’s call it even.
Biden’s out of control rage was applauded. Biden’s blood pressure must have been sky high. Funny he doesn’t fall flat on his face, when he screams out of control at the country.
Gee, they didn’t point to President Magoo’s accomplishments.
They are coming to take Biden away hee hee haw haw.
Too bad Biden doesn’t have much anger about what is happening at the border, which he himself created. Too bad Biden does not care much about the country’s safety and neither does his party or the media.
It was a campaign speech, not a State of the Union address.
I am ok with that as it lets Biden be Biden and that is never any good for Biden. Now he can return to the White House basement for the next 8 months.
Democrats say Biden’s now a “fighter,” a screaming angry leader of accomplishment.
So what happened to the kind, gentle doddering bereaved oldster Special Counsel Hur told us about?
Hur said THAT Biden was too forgetful, too nice and no one could possibly hold him accountable for mishandling boxes of US classified documents.
THAT Biden....... who undermined the safety and security of American Families with complete impunity....... has now “morphed” into a “trusted beacon of Democrat leadership” with just one speech?
Will miracles never cease....snx?
Greene (our Rep) wore a MAGA hat. I think that’s very inappropriate.
For the mass media “the issue is not the issue, the revolution is the issue”.
That is why they shamelessly contradict previous propaganda without batting an eye.
CNN knows Biden’s judgement is beyond the point of damage control for the age of his brain.
The media is addicted to Democrat talking points. They all repeat the same lies. Biden simply read lies last night.
“Greene”
When the enemy hates your guts then you know you are a hero or heroine.
She has the rarest of traits—many of us never meet a person who has this in our entire lives—raw courage.
Leftists who rant about President Trump then move on and attack her next.
That is very impressive for a member of Congress.
Biden energized the Trump base last night. Not sure Biden energized his own base.
“The media is addicted to Democrat talking points. They all repeat the same lies.”
That is why I expect they will be totally replaced by AI.
There is no good reason to pay humans to repeat Democrat talking points.
Biden can yell when he reads his script, but can he think clearly? The media is the same. They can repeat talking points but can they discern right from wrong? It is all simple acting. They are all actors.
1) Pronounces Lake as Lincoln
2) Next sentence is unintelligible and nonsensical about 1000 something
3)compares loss of Beau to being murdered by an illegal
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