Thanks for posting. So we can ridicule.
I pulled up NBC’s live video from a previously recorded string. Here are my observations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpprgcB4cj0
Saturday afternoon, nice weather, in Phillie. Biden drew about 80 people that got free t-shirts and stood behind the stage as backdrop. There must have been around 200 in the audience.
NBC didn’t even have their sound plugged in. Could hardly hear when the first couple manly women took the stage. When the lady choir took the stage, couldn’t hear them either but it looked like they had several baritones.
The audience was 90% white, and I’m being generous. I saw one black dude, one guy in a yarmuka, and one dude with a muslim hat. Otherwise, all white.
At around 20 minutes into the 1:16 video, they start bringing up white people to warm the crowd up. But they have sound system problems.
The chick is done talking at about 23 minutes, but no one can hear what she’s saying. The suit comes on stage with at least 10 roadies over the next minutes.
At 35:00 they clear the stage.
At 38:00 a woman, I think Jill Biden, approaches the stage. No one can hear her. She’s wearing a yellow knee-length summer dress with a man’s black blazer with “LOVE” in glitter on the back.
At 45 minutes, creepy joe makes his appearance. Tries to take two steps at a time to get up on the stage. Takes one, maybe two, and he’s there. Trying to look energetic in blue suit, open collared shirt, and signature aviator sunglasses.
He doesn’t sniff Jill.
He starts talking, but again, no audio mic only the mic from the back of the crowd. Chants of “Joe” from the anemic crowd. Creepy child molester starts talking. Will die with Philly in his heart, Trump bad, climate revolution, every American will vote for him because climate, barack and Joe love women (well, half right), beat Donald Trump, American factories will literally be underwater and close due to global warming flooding, defeat Donald Trump, beat Trump, threat to democracy by torch-carrying Trump supporters, in three years (sic) Trump’s only accomplishment is instilling fear, Trump is a tyrant and dictator, Trump hates Mexicans, Trump thinks he is above the law, neo-NAZIs, white supremacy, Trump hates children and loves dictators.
In summary, he invokes Lincoln at Gettysburg. Implies that if Trump isn’t defeated, “democracy will perish from the earth”. We’re better than all the world combined but without leadership, the workers will be stifled. Hope over fear, truth over lies, unity over division. Show who we are, beat Trump.
Crowd clears as soon as he’s done in about 20 seconds. (1 hr 15 into video). appearance by creepy looking young ladies, like the twins from The Shining. Dark-circled eyes. Other children come up, obviously coached to give a hug and kiss. He grabs the ass of the woman in the black blazer from earlier. The other kids give him a one-armed hug and try to get away. Very awkward.
Video cuts one and a half minutes after he’s done speaking. The crowd is already mostly gone. Close shot only by NBC cameras.
Observations.
1. Biden drew a crowd of a couple hundred in what should be his territory. Especially on a nice Saturday afternoon in Union-town.
2. The whole thing was a fiasco, visually. If the news shows any of this expect it to be in a day or two once they can edit the tape. Mostly for audio.
3. The speech was global warming and beat Trump. Nothing else.
4. He’s got pig-eyes from too much plastic surgery. He probably has nose hair on his cheeks from getting pulled back so tight.
5. He sounded like a high school kid in a debate contest defending a position he doesn’t believe. No passion, just platitudes on topics that don’t matter.
There. Now you don’t have to watch the video.
If this is the leading dem, then they’ve got a hot mess on their hands.
Thanks for the summary. I watched part of the rally, but couldn’t understand what Biden was saying because the sound was so bad.
Thanks for that awesome summary. I really loved the he-doesn’t-sniff-Jill line. Thanks for the laugh!