By Sister Toldja
There’s a helluva lot of ground to cover substance-wise from President Joe Biden’s first formal press conference, which my RedState colleagues will dive into shortly.
But what I wanted to write about was how he looked appearance-wise during the White House event that he and his handlers oddly spent several days preparing for, including holding a “mock” press conference as well as preparing a three-ring binder he could reference.
Though Biden “joked” yesterday in response to a question about whether or not he was ready for his press conference, how he looked today was no laughing matter at all. There were several points during the presser where he appeared confused and out of it, as the below video of him seeming to forget what he was going to stay in the middle of talking about the filibuster makes clear:
Biden’s brain sputters out as he tries talking about the filibuster pic.twitter.com/qYmB2daNdk
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 25, 2021
Unlike how they questioned President Trump’s mental health throughout his presidency, mainstream media reporters are very reluctant to call the occasions where Biden has seemed out of sorts as anything beyond merely looking “tired.” NBC News political reporter Jon Allen provides us with a classic example. Note how a mere two questions in, Allen was talking about how Biden was supposedly hitting it out of the park:
https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/1375142486935539715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1375142486935539715%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-36692782401644775523.ampproject.net%2F2103122145004%2Fframe.html
13 minutes later, Allen sent this tweet:
https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/1375144975516700672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1375144975516700672%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-36692782401644775523.ampproject.net%2F2103122145004%2Fframe.html
“Tired”? Really? We all know what tired actually looks like, and it’s an insult to our intelligence to pass off Biden’s mid-sentence freezes as nothing more than being “tired.”
As I said yesterday, that the leader of the free world essentially had to be shamed into doing a formal press conference two months into his time in the Oval Office should set off alarm bells everywhere. But when you see how things get progressively worse during these events – no matter how tightly staged they are, it begins to make more sense as to why they’re keeping him on leash in carefully controlled settings.
It’s quite terrifying, to be honest, and the more it happens the worse it looks. World leaders seem to be taking notice, too, which makes all of this even more concerning. But Biden IS the POTUS, and he should be expected to be able to appear in public and before the press and be able to coherently answer questions.
Every question was previously given to Biden as he called on them by name, not face, not even finding them in the group.
His answer was already written out, plus he could riff if he felt like it or lost his place.
The biggest problem I saw for him during this was that he seemed to give up on reading a few times.
The “answers” often were not on point, too.
There was another big problem and that was the compliance of the press.
They didn’t challenge him even when he claimed our infrastructure was sinking into water!
They didn’t make him explain the need to a razor-wire fence and a National Guard presence at the Capitol while walls are deemed unnecessary at our border.
And the disparate treatment of our soldiers in DC, sleeping on garage floors and eating contaminated food while millions are spent putting illegals into hotel rooms with free food!
What a disgraceful embarrassment. Scripted theater; probably why Fox,Newsmax or OAN got to ask questions.
Even worse is considering what we gave up to put this incompetent fool in office. Thanks, Democrats.
@Nan G: They also didn’t question his lie that there was the same surges before as the one now and, if so, why does he not have enough facilities nor was prepared for this surge. His lies were weak and transparent but his media pets just let him get away with them.
I’m sure handlers are OK. Joe was a dumb, incoherent, rich kid 50 years ago. Can not believe none of them knew Joe before yesterday.
Check out the incoherent rich kid at the Bork Inquisition ’87. Joe was born dumb and rich; still is, no change.
@Deplorable Me:
Biden is just way too senile to be runinig anything much less this Country
When President Trump stood behind a podium, he was like a coiled spring, full of unreleased energy.
President Biden is like a Slinky.
The cheap plastic ones.
No, I’m not gonna say it. That joke’s old.
The Potemkin president.