As was so predictable, Democrats in the media are rallying around their favorite president after his embarrassing press conference yesterday, pretending that him reading his answers from a book made the press conference ‘informative’ and ‘crisp’.
The first up is Max Boot, a WAPO columnist who’s a favorite on CNN and MSNBC:
The dominant narrative from the right wing industrial complex is that Biden is senile and being manipulated by shadowy leftists.
It’s a charge so crazy it doesn’t deserve refutation. But Biden’s crisp press conference shows he is fully in command of the issues.
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) March 25, 2021
It doesn’t deserve refutation? They don’t want to refute it because they know they can’t. It’s TRUE.
Regarding the ‘crisp press conference’ remark, Hume responded “Because nothing says crisp press conference like reading foreign policy answers out of a briefing book.”
Because nothing says crisp press conference like reading foreign policy answers out of a briefing book. https://t.co/WDxcrNpnby
— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 25, 2021
Matthew Dowd, a former hack from ABC News, countered with more excuses for Biden:
So Fox News and you are against informative briefings and facts?
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) March 26, 2021
Good grief. These people go out of their way to defend Biden’s abysmal performance.
Brit responded “Actually no. We’re just in favor a presidents being able to speak fluently and extemporaneously about their own policies.” BURN!
Actually no. We’re just in favor a presidents being able to speak fluently and extemporaneously about their own policies.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 26, 2021
Karen Tumulty, another WAPO columnist, defended Biden by attacking Trump:
actually HAVING a briefing book is an improvement over recent history. READING it is a double-improvement. https://t.co/cr8HMM5Tmi
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) March 25, 2021
Hume swatted her down like a champ:
Oh for Pete’s sake Karen, Biden’s been in Washington nearly 50 years and was twice chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Trump’s ignorance does not excuse Biden ‘s. https://t.co/DZqX4jZKdH
— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 26, 2021
That’s actually a really great point. In fact Biden was chosen by Obama to be his VP in 2008 in part for his so-called foreign policy expertise:
When Barack Obama picked #JoeBiden
Obama’s Pick Adds Foreign Expertise to Ticket https://t.co/dG7lkmqbOM— HEY MO! (@MoLulkowski) February 22, 2020
And now he’s reading his answers out of a book? To quote Joe Biden, “C’mon man!”
And by the way, here’s one of the books Teleprompter Joe was reading. It had reporters names in it with numbers beside them so he’d know who to call on and in what order:
Here ya go: https://t.co/L95143nk5x pic.twitter.com/TBQEe9vBle
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 26, 2021
This man is pathetic and so is the media that covers for him!