As expected the liberal media is gushing over the horrid SOTU speech by acuity challenged Joe Biden. They are comparing Biden’s speech to the MLK “I have a dream” speech and the “Sermon on the Mount.” But to the honest observer Biden only spent his time pushing an unpopular agenda. He even claimed that he reduced the deficit by overspending less than he did in his first year.
He then claimed that the Senate immigration bill that would have flooded the country with illegal aliens for decades to come as the toughest legislation on illegal immigration in the h9story of the country. Old feeble Joe must have gotten into Hunter’s fentanyl stash. He then went on to claim that he fixed the economy. Sky high inflation and the erosion of the people’s spending power. That put the masses in a fix but in no way has he been a positive force for the economy or the poor and middle class.
But even the liberal media couldn’t deny the problems with the speech.
CBS White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes observed:
“This seemed to me to be a speech designed first and foremost to show that Joe Biden has the stamina and the fire in the belly to go another four years. It was designed to be delivered with high energy.”
Jake Tapper:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“His presentation, his enunciation, of course, is not as clear as it once was a decade or two ago. His mind did seem fairly sharp.”
“He had ad-libbed a response to a pretty harsh moment—at some heckling about the tragic murder of UGA student Laken Riley—he got her name… wrong. He called her ‘Lincoln Riley’ but, as a general note, he condemned her murder, which was something that people were talking about.”
Fairly sharp? Not exactly what Biden wanted to hear.
CNN's Jake Tapper: "His presentation, his enunciation, of course, is not as clear as it once was…" pic.twitter.com/DW9CdzFuMv
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Others noticed how partisan the speech was.
“This is the 36th of these for me—State of the Unions or presidential addresses at the beginning—the first one being 1989,” CNN’s John King said. “Never heard one so political, never heard one that is such a campaign speech.”
CNN's John King: "This is the 36th of these for me … Never heard one so political. Never heard one that is such a campaign speech." pic.twitter.com/C7g8bg6zo9
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Even Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC was blindsided by the incredibly partisan speech, during which Biden attacked the Supreme Court to their faces.
“That’s never been done before. To the extent that a president has a disagreement with the Supreme Court expressed in the State of the Union address, they always try to find the most polite possible language for doing that,” he said. “This was not the night for that. So that was just astonishing.”
Former Obama advisor David Axelrod said that while he thinks some of Biden’s points may have resonated, he doesn’t think the attacks “all landed.”
“They may have landed well in that room, for sure, and they landed well with base voters, for sure,” Axelrod explained, “I’m not sure [with] those swing voters—that they landed as well. I also, by the way, think that what probably doesn’t land well,” Axelrod continued, “is his proclamation that our economy is the envy of the world and that, you know, we’ve, you know, inflation is under control.”
CNN: Biden's State of the Union was "like an old guy screaming to kids, 'GET OFF MY LAWN.'" pic.twitter.com/DYMUOMSvdr
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Still, the largely adoring media did everything they could to push the narrative that this was a good speech and a great night for Biden. But it’s obvious that they also heard the mumbling, the slurring, and the awkward pause before he botched Laken Riley’s name, which we all saw. They all know it wasn’t a solid performance, but they are hoping they can shape public opinion about it anyway. Occasionally, the truth slips out, and even those who have nothing but good things to say make it clear that they know that Biden’s trying to assuage concerns about his age and cognitive decline and are trying to help him.
