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Biden’s big interview tonight is a no-win proposition
The Hill ^ | July 5, 2024 | Matt K. Lewis

Posted on 07/05/2024 9:38:46 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier

If it were the 1990s, Joe Biden’s primetime interview Friday with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos would be a ratings monster. There would be no Netflix, Hulu or PlayStation to compete with it.

What’s more, Biden’s performance would be dispositive, either dooming his candidacy or resuscitating it — that’s how much power the mainstream media once had.

In my estimation, doom is much more likely, regardless of how many credulous Americans tune in to the spectacle. Indeed, this interview strikes me as a no-win proposition for Biden...

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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The piece argues that Stephanopoulos might even have greater incentive to tank Biden than to coddle/save him.
1 posted on 07/05/2024 9:38:46 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier
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To: The Old Hoosier

Will it be live or edited?....................


2 posted on 07/05/2024 9:42:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Stephanopoulos might even have greater incentive to tank Biden than to coddle/save him.“

That’s a good one when the entire reason for it is to save the POS,


3 posted on 07/05/2024 9:43:14 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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“The entire reason for it...” is only true for the Biden cabal. Stephanopolous isn’t necessarily part of that cabal. There’s a large and growing faction that now believes that Biden is an albatross around the neck of the Dems, and the only way to save the Party (Party above all) is to get rid of him post-haste so someone more viable can be brought in.


4 posted on 07/05/2024 9:45:20 AM PDT by Little Pig
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The piece argues that Stephanopoulos might even have greater incentive to tank Biden than to coddle/save him.

His only incentive will be to perform the task assigned to him by the deep state. If they want Biden out, all he has to do is act like a journalist. If they want Biden in, all he has to do is act like a sycophant.

5 posted on 07/05/2024 9:46:02 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Red Badger

From what I can infer from the many articles, the 15-20 minute interview will be taped, but ABC promises they won’t edit it.
Yeah, okay.


6 posted on 07/05/2024 9:46:25 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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Stephanopoulos may be more loyal to the media than to the party. Right now, the entire phalanx of the liberal media has lined up against Joe Biden, and are waiting for a coup de grace. Stephanopoulos could become the hero if he were to slay the king. He would enter the kind of hallowed sainthood reserved for the greatest exponents of liberal media-dom - alongside Woodward and Bernstein.

I can see Tapper, Bash, and Stephanopoulos being People of the Year if Trump wins.

7 posted on 07/05/2024 9:47:47 AM PDT by nwrep
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8 posted on 07/05/2024 9:48:02 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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9 posted on 07/05/2024 9:48:43 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Yup—S stand for Slave—S needs to follow the orders of his masters just like he would have to if the interview was done in North Korea.

Welcome to “our democracy”.


10 posted on 07/05/2024 9:48:59 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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Here's the excerpt from "Variety"

"ABC News said it will move an interview between the anchor and President Joe Biden to Friday evening, rather than waiting until Sunday morning as previously planned, a sign of the extreme interest in seeing the Commander-in-Chief address issues of physical and mental fitness in the wake of a poor debate performance against former President Donald Trump last week. The interview is the first Biden has granted to a mainstream national news outlet since the debate performance.

"Stephanopoulos is expected to talk to President Biden earlier in the day Friday from the campaign trail in Wisconsin. The first clip of the interview will air on Friday’s broadcast of “World News Tonight” as planned, then in a primetime special at 8 p.m. eastern, and, subsequently, Sunday during “This Week,” where it was to have first surfaced in completed form."

11 posted on 07/05/2024 9:49:07 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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Its already been taped days ago, already heavily edited, 15 minute soft ball interview consisting of hows he doing and whats his favorite ice cream flavor


12 posted on 07/05/2024 9:50:24 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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It will be taped in advance and edited.


13 posted on 07/05/2024 9:50:51 AM PDT by motor_racer ("Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria, J. Stalin Deputy Premier)
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Yeah we can trust the communist media who has been LYING to us for 3 1/2 yrs now they are telling the truth LOL


14 posted on 07/05/2024 9:51:05 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Memorex


15 posted on 07/05/2024 9:51:12 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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16 posted on 07/05/2024 9:52:23 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Acting like a journalist might be hard, he’s had so little practice at it!


17 posted on 07/05/2024 9:52:53 AM PDT by Reily
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Let's try to size that better...


18 posted on 07/05/2024 9:53:03 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The country bounces along like Custer on the way to Little Big Horn, thanks to Dear Leader)
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To: The Old Hoosier

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. And they can say Biden isn’t suffering from dementia, but Biden is obviously suffering from dementia.

No amount of interviews, campaign rallies, or other nonsense they come up with can hide Joe’s dementia... And his decline progresses on a daily basis... Because that’s what happens with dementia patients.

By November, he may not even know who Jill and Hunter are anymore.


19 posted on 07/05/2024 9:54:31 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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I’m thinking Biden will announce his pulling out.


20 posted on 07/05/2024 9:55:16 AM PDT by llevrok (“In a time of deceit telling, the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
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