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Joe Biden’s Soviet town hall
Spectator World ^ | 22 Oct 2021 | Dominic Green

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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bloggers; democrats; dominicgreen; fail; mustread; propaganda
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CNN’s Townhall Crowd Audibly Giggles As Biden Becomes Confused Mid Sentence

1 posted on 10/22/2021 2:56:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

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.


2 posted on 10/22/2021 2:58:14 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Rummyfan

President Retard can’t even wipe his own butt and it won’t improve 🤪


3 posted on 10/22/2021 3:04:03 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Rummyfan

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”


4 posted on 10/22/2021 3:04:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: MNJohnnie
A Russian acquaintance of mine said we were actually in worse shape. As he put it, even Pravda was allowed to criticize the Politburo once in awhile.
5 posted on 10/22/2021 3:07:32 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Townhall in Potemkin Village


6 posted on 10/22/2021 3:08:56 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Rummyfan
the government functions — or rather, fails to function — with near-Soviet efficiency.

It functioned very well under Trump.

"Official Washington" couldn't handle that. It exposed them for the lazy, corrupt tax-eaters they are.

7 posted on 10/22/2021 3:09:51 PM PDT by JennysCool (Let's go, Brandon!)
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To: Vigilanteman
A Russian acquaintance of mine said we were actually in worse shape. As he put it, even Pravda was allowed to criticize the Politburo once in awhile.

Our media is jut like the Soviets, Pravda (Truth) and Izvestia (The News). No truth to the news, and no news in the truth.

8 posted on 10/22/2021 3:10:05 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: Rummyfan
I went and Goolaged Brandon forgetting Sinema's name, and I couldn't find it.

Of course, I got lots of noozarticles where the Brandon Media is gargling Joek's testicles over his clownhall performance...

9 posted on 10/22/2021 3:11:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: JennysCool
Official Washington" couldn't handle that. It exposed them for the lazy, corrupt tax-eaters they are.

Yes and they could not abide that. President Trump and his followers had to be punished.

10 posted on 10/22/2021 3:11:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: Rummyfan

AP = America’s Pravda


11 posted on 10/22/2021 3:13:58 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: MNJohnnie
it was an illegal campaign donation in kind to Biden by CNN

How is that different from a network covering a Trump Rally?

12 posted on 10/22/2021 3:15:03 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: NWFree

“My butt’s been wiped!” Thanks for the update, Joe.


13 posted on 10/22/2021 3:18:15 PM PDT by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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To: Rummyfan

“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.


14 posted on 10/22/2021 3:25:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Rummyfan

Oh, he just a Brit.


15 posted on 10/22/2021 3:26:51 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: FatherofFive

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.


16 posted on 10/22/2021 3:29:40 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: BenLurkin

17 posted on 10/22/2021 3:38:53 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Rummyfan

The old Soviet propaganda machine must be envious of today American media.


18 posted on 10/22/2021 3:40:41 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Rummyfan

>> Spectator World

Is that the SPAC Trump bought backwards?


19 posted on 10/22/2021 3:52:22 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: MNJohnnie

call out to all seals who will clap when the ball is thrown to them. They just love Joes stories about Amtrak and popcorn


20 posted on 10/23/2021 4:07:45 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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