Journalists Should Stop Cleaning Up After Biden
Bloomberg Opinion,
by
Ramesh Ponnuru
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
9/17/2020 3:52:52 AM
All political candidates make mistakes. They have to retract hasty, ill-considered statements. They find that the position they took to win their primaries is inconvenient afterward, and try to explain it away. For a lucky few candidates, the embarrassment is mitigated by the assistance of journalists who accept the explanations or, even better, don’t ask for them in the first place.
Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, is in that enviable position. Whenever he makes a political mess, he is blessed with people, many of them not in his employ, who will clean it up for him.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Petronius 9/17/2020 5:47:22 AM (No. 543234)
The press has been wiping Biden's filthy ass for him for months.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Krause 9/17/2020 6:36:21 AM (No. 543261)
As creepy as Joe is, CNN is even worse, cheering for all that is bad for American citizens..
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 9/17/2020 7:26:06 AM (No. 543304)
Here's journalists writing articles for each other again. What a bubble they live in.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/17/2020 8:00:17 AM (No. 543336)
Make that years, #1.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
marbles 9/17/2020 8:18:38 AM (No. 543361)
The MSM is the P.R. arm of the democrat party. Unbiased reporting of the news hasn't been their job for decades. They are agenda driven.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/17/2020 9:17:53 AM (No. 543436)
Somebody has to change Biden's Depends why not CNN with the entire media that the left owns. Biden is their guy the left sees it but are as stupid as Joe Biden. Imbeciles supporting a moron is the result.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rama41 9/17/2020 9:35:35 AM (No. 543455)
President Trump has it within his power to make the press cover Biden. We know he has energy and can be everywhere at once, but when he follows up a great day about Mideast peace, he always follows it up with a distraction like a panel of "independent" voters with Stephanopoulos. That just gives the press the excuse to change the subject. The same way a NASCAR tweet knocked Mt. Rushmore off the front page. If he'd go quiet for a week, they'd have to cover Biden. If the election's about Biden, Biden loses. Right now, it's still about Trump every day.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/17/2020 9:40:05 AM (No. 543459)
Franklin delano roosevelt, as a young man, contracted Paralytic Polio. For the remainder of his life, he could not walk.
But in a quiet conspiracy, reporters and news photographers did not show him in a wheelchair.
In public appearances, FDR's two strong sons appeared with him, each gripping one of FDR's arms, essentially lifting him off the ground, his legs flailing along, pretending to walk.
Reporters covering Biden are doing the equivalent. Yesterday's press conference was slick but shameful. If you watch the event you will see how his notebook is used to answer pre-submitted questions. and I suspect he also has a wireless mini microphone stuck in his ear to keep on course.
Weekend at Bernie's also comes to mind.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/17/2020 9:45:58 AM (No. 543467)
...not to mention every other Democrat for the last 25+ years.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/17/2020 9:46:18 AM (No. 543468)
His hardening of the arteries evident in nearly utterance that passes his lips, career grifter Biden would be a pitiable character if he hadn't been so corrupt, so greedy, and so dishonest for so long. Whatever pity we might have had for him founders on the rocky shores of reason. He's not entitled to any pity unless he retires from the race on the grounds of mental incompetence. But he'd have to be honest to do that. He's in it to win it, even if he piddles a puddle on the podium. The Democrats showed their respect for American voters by kicking upstairs--nominating for president!--someone who can't communicate even the simplest thoughts, who leaks meaningless words and authentic Gabby Johnson frontier gibberish as other leaks down below warm his Depends and threaten his shoes. It has really come to this. The disloyal opposition expect us to elect a marionette with advanced dementia. These people need a good thorough beating.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bazi 9/17/2020 9:47:05 AM (No. 543469)
Nothing new. They cleaned up after JFK,Clinton, Obama and FDR. FDR's wheelchair bound paralysis was dutifully covered up. The" journalists" happily clean up now, but should Harris/Obama/Sanders/Soros win (heaven help us), the giddy journalists will be threatened if they don't clean up and cover up. That's the way communism rolls.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/17/2020 10:10:44 AM (No. 543484)
Why should they stop now after gleefully cleaning up after Obie. The msm hit it out of the park covering up for him and Billary on Benghazi. Practice makes perfect.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Zigrid 9/17/2020 10:22:19 AM (No. 543503)
This biden candidacy is the most outrageous fraud perpetrated on the American people.... it's obvious he's gone round the bend... you have only to watch the television to determine something is terribly wrong with him... so kamala's faux pa about a harris administration answered those of us who have questioned the left's pushing biden... kamala has been told she's the president if they win.... and she dropped the ball in letting us all know...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/17/2020 11:59:37 AM (No. 543657)
Soros buys the MSM an endless supply of Wipes...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/17/2020 12:24:38 PM (No. 543687)
A typical Yahoo piece. Per Biden's stance on guns, as far as I know, it is illegal to own an ASSAULT weapon, i.e. one that can autofire. The reason the seize gun fanatics keep going after the AR-15 is that it LOOKS like the military version that is autofire and they think they can sell fear of the nasty looking gun. Civilian versions are single fire only.
The problem for Biden and other dems is that they say one thing to one audience and the opposite to a different audience. Why? Because there is no way to craft a policy that does up and down at the same time, so they have to lie. The Leftist stance is their true intent and the legal stance is the lie. They used to get away with this more when the dems and Republicans were not so far apart. They could wiggle a bit each way and appease both sides. Now, the differences are so gapping that trying to pander to both sounds idiotic and is obviously duplicitous.
Besides it doesn't matter what Biden "thinks" (if he actually can). It only matters what the Left wants because THEY will be the ones in charge of a dem administration.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 9/17/2020 1:50:30 PM (No. 543778)
Some of the analogies to FDR are a bit off target. Having polio is not a disqualification for higher office; having senile dementia is.
The decision not to display President Roosevelt's disability from polio was, perhaps, as much for the sake of the country as for him as a politician. However by 1944, the country had a right to know more about the state of the president's health than they were told. President Roosevelt was a dying man, and his doctors knew it. The American people were unknowingly electing FDR's successor in much the same way that they might now be, in effect, electing Kamala Harris. It's a cheap, shoddy trick unworthy of a great democracy.
And the decision to conceal Biden's clearly-accelerating inability to function is flat out evil. It is detrimental to our country and the democratic process.
The media should be ashamed of themselves, but we already know they are incapable of that.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/17/2020 4:59:37 PM (No. 543945)
2nd post apologies, but, #16, you took an inductive leap, I think.
I did not say paralysis was a disqualifying factor for the presidency. I mentionjed it as an example of how journalists are willing to ignore stuff about their candidate.
when Eisenhower suffered a stroke while president, many reporters kept track of Ike's speaking errors, some of them openly mocking him for his disability. Yet they were willing to remain silent about JFK's poor health, womanizing, and drug use.
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