Posted on 10/22/2021 2:56:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan
CNN lobs him softballs and he still can’t remember Kyrsten Sinema’s name
Is it more worrying that President Biden might not be in charge, or that he actually is in charge? Nobody has the power to force a president to undergo the indignities that Biden went through on Thursday night’s CNN town hall. As with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, either someone convinced him to do it or he insisted on doing it. Either way, you could not watch him, clenching his fists as though holding a Zimmer frame while Anderson Cooper spoon-fed him a prompt, without feeling that we are heading nowhere good.
On the same day that Donald Trump evoked the ghosts of Soviet propaganda by launching a social-media app called Truth — the Russian translation is Pravda — Joe Biden attempted a Brezhnev-era theatrical of his own. In the Eighties, we laughed at the Soviet leaders’ transparently crude bumbling before the cameras. Their low-grade production values and rambling, slurred speeches exposed them as a decayed and senile regime. This was the opposite of the intended effect, but the US set the global standard in political imagery, so the Soviets felt they had to keep up. They beat themselves at our game.
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It’s not an election year, so there’s no need for a live “town hall.” The very notion parodies the now-ancient imagery of Norman Rockwell’s civic democracy. And the audience aren’t, as Anderson Cooper called them, “voters” — unless we’re living in a permanent emergency whose symptoms include permanent voting. If we are in a permanent emergency, it is because both Democrats and Republicans want us to think we are, because they are in a permanent state of war over the spoils of government, and because the government functions — or rather, fails to function — with near-Soviet efficiency.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectatorworld.com ...
Soviet town hall that is good
Audience was selected by invitation only. It was not a town hall, it was an illegal campaign donation in kind to Biden by CNN
The FCC should fine CNN.
President Retard can’t even wipe his own butt and it won’t improve 🤪
Only saw one clip and in it the audience started cheering as though an applause sign had lit and the show’s were goading them on.
It sounded like something out of “The Price is Right”
Townhall in Potemkin Village
It functioned very well under Trump.
"Official Washington" couldn't handle that. It exposed them for the lazy, corrupt tax-eaters they are.
Our media is jut like the Soviets, Pravda (Truth) and Izvestia (The News). No truth to the news, and no news in the truth.
Of course, I got lots of noozarticles where the Brandon Media is gargling Joek's testicles over his clownhall performance...
Yes and they could not abide that. President Trump and his followers had to be punished.
AP = America’s Pravda
How is that different from a network covering a Trump Rally?
“My butt’s been wiped!” Thanks for the update, Joe.
“On the same day that Donald Trump evoked the ghosts of Soviet propaganda by launching a social-media app called Truth”
Low life Turd. Just had to get a shot in. Pravda was used for lies. Trump is launching a platform so that actual truth can be put out.
Oh, he just a Brit.
Trump pays for his rallies. CNN paid to stage a fake town hall for Bugout Biden.
The illegality is that CNN rather then the Biden campaign paid for it.
The old Soviet propaganda machine must be envious of today American media.
>> Spectator World
Is that the SPAC Trump bought backwards?
call out to all seals who will clap when the ball is thrown to them. They just love Joes stories about Amtrak and popcorn
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