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‘I Don’t Know, To Be Clear’: Biden’s Painful Press Conference
The President’s first press conference has just concluded. Joe Biden mumbling and stumbling his way through an hour of sympathetic softballs proved, once again, that he is not up to the job. He hasn’t “lost a step,” he’s lost the whole staircase. Even his media boosters couldn’t maintain the charade.
Biden strained to keep up with his scripted briefing document, calling one hand-selected reporter at a time. Each question was a mild critique from the far left. (Needless to say, Fox News’s Peter Doocy was not called upon.) Each answer was a few minutes of rambling followed by a word-for-word dry-read of the White House talking points.
Caleb Hull provided representative clips:
Incredible awkward moment as Joe Biden struggles to find which hand-picked reporter to call on next from his list… pic.twitter.com/LWB3QcXyIE
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 25, 2021
Joe Biden's brain just malfunctioned…? pic.twitter.com/QWUBa9v8iD
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 25, 2021
REPORTER: "How soon will we have access to the overcrowded facilities where kids are being kept?"
BIDEN: "I don't know, to be clear."
😬😬😬 pic.twitter.com/XMPGNIg1UY
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 25, 2021
This embarrassing display occurred days after Biden’s repeated collapses trying to board Air Force One, and China publicly ridiculed his administration for its self-loathing weakness at the Alaska summit. No doubt, our enemies laughed their way through the presser as Americans cringed.
Meanwhile, at a nearby baseball field, Kamala Harris was warming up in the bullpen.
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Cover up, Jen Psaki, cover up!
The USA has finally elected its Chernenko.
You have to see this to believe it.
I heard some comparisons to FDR. However, I think, even in his final days, FDR possessed more intelligence, more character, and, most certainly, a great deal more real patriotism than this man has ever possessed. Biden is an empty shell. In an earlier comment someone asked how his wife could allow this to be done to him. I apologize for not remembering the author of that comment. The answer, though is pretty simple. It has always been my belief that intelligence and, likely, integrity occur in inverse proportion to ambition. “Dr. Jill” does not possess a great deal of intelligence, less integrity, but a whole lot of ambition. Her entire “Dr.” thing demonstrates that clearly. Elsewhere, another commenter said, God help us. To which I can only respond, Amen.
BTW, has Drudge turned into the HuffPost? I haven’t visited that site in a few years. I last remember it being the great Trump booster. Have they really gone over to the darkside?
I don’t. He has such a history of lies – and not just politician lies. The lies he told about the poor man who was in the accident with Biden’s wife were vile.
I actually don’t believe that Jill Biden could have talked him out of it. He has wanted to be president since he was in college. And Jill Biden probably wanted to be First Lady.
No idea. Don’t go there often. Just wanted to see their take on the press conference.
Unfortunately for us, he’s only wanted the TITLE of president, not the actual job.
Yep. Drudge went anti-Trump shortly after the 2016 election.
A Photoshop I made a while back…
Chance the Gardner’s evil twin.
Exactly.
FDR was 63 when he died of a stroke.
And Yeah, Drudge went over to the dark side several years ago.
Except Chance the Gardener gave the illusion of wit and intelligence.
“Elected”
Dana Carvey was dead on perfect. Biden’s press conference reminded me of Reagan’s later press conferences in his second term.
Morning Joe did a side by side comparison between Biden’s first press conference and Trump’s first press conference. Biden did a far better job. That clip is not up yet at YouTube, but Brian Williams’ clip is. I prefer Republican policies over Democrat policies, but I also choose Biden over Trump, at least as to their first formal Presidential news conferences.
Here is a summary from Politico of 180 seconds of Biden’s news conference. He looked pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty good. For better or worse, people are willing to accept Biden’s foibles like they did Reagan’s. Given Trump’s toxic brew, he did not get the same level of acceptance, at least by me.
Biden’s diplomatic failures are going to make you a bigger laughingstock than you already are.
I’d love to know what other world leaders like Putin, Jinping, or Kim think . . .
So true. Even if he was leftist on policies for the home front, he was outstanding in his performance of duties as a wartime Commander-In-Chief.
For a corpse.
Did you miss the fact he needed detailed instructions on who and when to call on particular “reporters’? And still managed to get confused?
That he wandered and lost his train of thought?
That’s Ok by you?
I don’t know. I wouldn’t need to be prompted for answers, but I wouldn’t mind a “who’s who” with pictures. Heck, we needed something like that the first week we got home with our three adopted daughters. Fortunately, we eventually learned their names when they did . . .
The idiot wants raise Americas roads by 3 feet because of “Global Warming”
“Last point I’ll make on the infrastructure — and I apologize for spending more time on it, but — is that if you think about it, it’s the place where we will be able to significantly increase American productivity, at the same time providing really good jobs for people. But we can’t build back to what they used to be. We have to build — the environment has — global warming has already done significant damage.
The roads that used to be above the water level — didn’t have to worry about where the drainage ditch was — now you got to rebuild them three feet higher. Because it’s not going to go back to what it was before; it will only get worse, unless we stop it.
My husband didn’t believe he said that until I sent him the transcript. God help us.
All that will accomplish is make potholes deeper . . .
I wanted to watch this, but I stopped when I heard that lying fool say “survived the last four years”. Unless you were in a cave or are as cognitively handicapped as Slow Joe, you know that we thrived the last four years despite the best efforts of RINOs, Demo-rats, and the MSM.
He is too aged to be president. He is too aged to do most things. That is what is going on, here
Why is this an intelligent comparison? This makes no sense to me.
They will get rid of him in a second if something chaotic happens in the country or globally.