The Emmy for most partisan, pandering question went to NPR’s Yamiche Alcindor, a notorious activist pretending to be a journalist. While the question was ostensibly about overcrowding at the border, she led with this:You’ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn’t come to this country right now. This isn’t the time to come. That message is not being received. Instead, the perception of you that got you elected as a moral decent man is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and entrusting you with unaccompanied minors.
Biden gratefully accepted her characterization of him as “the nice guy.” You can read here Biden’s myriad dishonest statements about the situation at the border. After he’d spoken for a while, a mixture of lies, crude attacks on Trump, and confusing statements, Biden suddenly stopped and said,
Am I giving you too long an answer, because if you don’t want the detail. No, no, but I mean, I don’t know how much detail you want about immigration. Maybe I’ll stop there.
Despite the left’s tender loving respect, he was offended (and incoherent) when one reporter dared ask him about his running for reelection. Biden responded with:
“Look, I don’t know where you guys come from, man. I’ve never been able to travel. I’m a great respecter of fate. I’ve never been able to plan four and a half, three and a half years ahead for certain.”
Biden did take care to avoid any rough handling. Notably, he did not call on Fox’s Peter Doocy, who might actually have asked a real question with a challenging follow-up.
Ominously, though, when asked if he thought he’d be running against Trump in 2024, he said, “I have no idea whether there’ll be a Republican party.” Given the Democrats’ efforts to jettison the filibuster and create permanent one-party rule, that was a worrisome statement.
Yachime Acindor, POC, PBS, POS.
