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‘Totally different’: Biden’s biographers and defenders reckon with the debate
Semafor ^ | June 30, 2024 | Max Tani

Posted on 07/04/2024 12:50:49 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

Why did anyone think Joe Biden was ready for a 90-minute presidential debate? One reason is that a small handful of journalists, with left-leaning sympathies but very credible records, have interviewed him and those close to him in the White House and returned with reports that while he’s definitely older, he’s still pretty sharp and in charge.

Two of the most prominent are Biden biographers Evan Osnos and Franklin Foer. I spoke to them Sunday as they reconciled their own portrayals with the faltering 81-year-old they saw on national television.

In his deeply-reported recent New Yorker article, Osnos detailed Biden on the precipice of his final campaign, the definition of an elder statesman steeling himself for a rematch with an emboldened Donald Trump. But in his one sitdown with Biden in January (the White House declined his invitation for a second), he described an older Biden in command of his faculties: “His voice is thin and clotted, and his gestures have slowed, but, in our conversation, his mind seemed unchanged. He never bungled a name or a date.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; coverup; debate; debatedisaster; elderabuse; election; impairedbiden; jillsfault; trump
Nobody believes you; just knock it off!
1 posted on 07/04/2024 12:50:49 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Couple of weeks ago Joe was sharp as a tack. He caught a cold and his mind went to jello! Just like that!


2 posted on 07/04/2024 12:51:58 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Joe is competent and just no longer a good debater. Keep the ruse alive!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“a small handful of journalists, with left-leaning sympathies but very credible records,”

In other words a gang of pathological liars and propagandists....

They were never “credible” with me.


3 posted on 07/04/2024 12:53:06 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Court historians are the lowest form of scum.


4 posted on 07/04/2024 12:54:51 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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There is no such thing as a leftist sympathizer journalist with a credible record!

They all lie constantly, to advance their cause.


5 posted on 07/04/2024 12:55:38 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Joe is competent and just no longer a good debater. Keep the ruse alive!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The debate was a major help, but I don’t like all the discussion that sounds like he should be reelected if he can demonstrate he’s barely conscious.

Democrats are a disaster and we need them out! I don’t care if Biden wins an Olympic gold medal.


6 posted on 07/04/2024 12:57:16 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Leftists are the most flagrant propagandists. We saw Biden having dementia years ago. We knew and we know you knew.

The debate is damning and unforgetable.

7 posted on 07/04/2024 1:03:04 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“…with left-leaning sympathies but very credible records, have interviewed him and those close to him in the White House and returned with reports that while he’s definitely older, he’s still pretty sharp and in charge.“

In other words: Who are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?

C’mon clowns, you’ve been busted. You’ve been lying thru your America hating Donald Trump despising teeth.


8 posted on 07/04/2024 1:31:19 PM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Delusional poltroons recording a corrupt pedophile and his dysfunctional “family.” They really enjoy this?


9 posted on 07/04/2024 1:40:01 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Biden biographers have a personal financial incentive to see him succeed.


10 posted on 07/04/2024 2:22:45 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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This is what the left are saying and thinking...
No one recognized Joe was deminted until the debate.
He’s okay daytime.. Just tired after 5.
Keep him on the ticket.. Another 4 years, Joe
And you think you can sell it that way.

The guy is an embarrassment sitting in as President of this great nation.. You’ve lost your minds!!

You can’t come to an ounce of positives re Trump.. But you can make it up for Joe.

You are seriously out... Gone!! ...


11 posted on 07/04/2024 4:21:51 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie ( )
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“Biden biographers have a personal financial incentive to see him succeed.”
In more ways than just one. Do any of them want to be known as the journalists that knew Biden was failing and decided it was to cover it up. Much better for them to say they don’t know what happened between when they saw him sharp and in command and his performance a bit later when he looked like a zombie.


12 posted on 07/04/2024 4:25:12 PM PDT by conejo99
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To: cgbg

small handful of journalists, with left-leaning sympathies but very credible records

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Can anyone name one “journalist with left-leaning sympathies but a very credible record”? I don’t think there is one. I certainly cannot name one.


13 posted on 07/04/2024 4:28:52 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Joe is competent and just no longer a good debater. Keep the ruse alive!)
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