For those who say the media ain’t the ‘bad guys against Joe Biden’?
A piece on how the media has ALWAYS covered Biden’s gaffs with tolerance and amusement ….
But all the sudden decided ?
Well NOY ALL the sudden….
Has used Joe Biden’s age as a excuse to try to kick him to the curb….
Biden’s gaffes aren’t new. The media’s obsession with them is
The morning after President Joe Biden’s Thursday night press conference, much of the press was forced to reluctantly admit that the president spent an hour “deftly” answering questions from 10 different reporters in an unscripted event where he “comfortably waded” through complex issues involving economics, the military, and foreign affairs.
Biden gave lengthy, thorough answers, several of them containing genuine news. That included giving a more complete account of what it has been like for the U.S. to engage in a situation in the Middle East with few reliable leaders, a large number of players, and constantly shifting alliances. He also dealt with issues as intricate as China’s influence in the Pacific and as immediate as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But as expected, much of the media focus has been on a single gaffe.
Because the media seems to have completely forgotten that it spent decades chuckling over Biden’s “gaffe-prone reputation” and calling him a “human verbal wrecking crew.”
Someone definitely has a memory issue.
Here’s how The New York Times described Biden in 2008, shortly after Barack Obama had selected him to be his running mate:
Senator Joseph Biden Jr., the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, is an experienced, serious and smart man. But he does say some curious things. A day on the campaign trail without some cringe-inducing gaffe is a rare blessing. He has not been too blessed lately.
That exact paragraph could be used in 2024. But it won’t be. Because it no longer fits the media narrative.
Gaffes have always been part of Biden’s character. Not only does he stutter, he often finds himself searching for some alternative phrase when he can’t get out the right words. More often, he simply says the wrong thing or gets his words so tangled that they can’t be parsed with a machete. He’s a guy whose mouth isn’t always in synch with his brain….
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Biden’s gaffes haven’t changed. But his age has. Now that the media has helped to create, and fully endorsed, the Biden-so-old narrative, gaffes that generated eye-rolls in the past now spark week-long speculations over Parkinson’s.
This isn’t Biden’s problem. It’s really not. It’s the media’s problem.
It’s society’s problem.
It’s a problem called ageism….