The Media’s Biggest Favor to Biden Was to Ignore Him
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgdhp
There’s a good reason why Democrats shut Joe Biden out in 1988 and 2008 when he ran for president, and why he had the sound sense to sit out the 2016 contest. He rambles. He plagiarizes. He flip-flops. Over his long career in Washington, he has become the human embodiment of the political gaffe.
The press has documented Biden’s limitations in such detail that if the presidency was a regular occupation, and Joe’s press clips were job references, his recruiter would dump his application in a waste can without even bothering to send him an insincere note wishing him luck elsewhere. But instead of hammering him and pouring vinegar on his wounds, the press has bestowed “strange new respect” status upon Biden— strange new respect being the clever trope Tom Bethell invented to describe the press corps’ sudden shift from negative to positive coverage of a politician.
As a vulnerable codger, he had a good excuse to sequester himself in his basement, burrowing so deeply that some took to calling him “Punxsutawney Joe.” And with Biden mostly in hiding, Donald Trump’s blundering response has become the only real story of the campaign. Every time Trump opens his mouth, he convinces somebody out there to vote for Biden.
Spot on!
Regardless who wins in November: We are so screwed!