jimnyc
03-15-2021, 05:34 PM
As it was when he came in with Obama - it was to be a new way, running an administration with full transparency. And then of course gutting that statement as soon as he gets into office.
Rest is still the same as well, same as during the campaign. Joe is in hiding most of the time, then it's mostly just an appearance, and light talking, and with the teleprompter. He can't do well even with the teleprompter and sounds lost. Barely audible at times, forgetting things and not making much sense at other times. Still not doing any press conferences and still no state of the union address.
If he can't handle speaking, can't handle coming out and speaking fluently and responding to any questions that the press toss at him - then how in the hell does he run the country? Ever talk to foreign leaders? Talk with any groups of people in committees or wherever? :rolleyes:
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The media fact-checkers finally come for Joe Biden
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please," author Mark Twain once said.
Distorting facts has been all the rage for a Biden administration that was billed from the beginning as the most honest team assembled since the days of George Washington. The falsifications came to a loud head during the president's scripted address to the nation on Thursday night, which the Washington Post described as "heavy on emotion and hope, but light on facts." The New York Times said Biden "exaggerated elements of the coronavirus pandemic," among other things.
"President Biden's objective, and his commitment, is to bring transparency and truth back to government to share the truth, even when it's hard to hear," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki promised America on Day 1. But, instead, transparency has consisted of the Leader of the Free World being whisked away from event after event, away from reporters shouting questions over staffers shouting at reporters to leave. It also means Biden now owning the dubious distinction of not holding a formal press conference after taking office longer than his 15 predecessors dating back more than 100 years, before television was invented.
https://i.imgur.com/e8Kf53o.png
Team Biden is likely holding the president back from doing such an event because it might consist of answering questions around a border policy that has led to a full-blown crisis which includes kids back in cages amid a pandemic and COVID-positive migrants being released into the U.S. population. Such a press conference might also include questions around a COVID-19 relief package that only dedicates 9 percent of its $1.9 trillion to actually fighting the virus while pushing off billions allocated to help reopen schools until 2022, well after the pandemic is likely to be over.
The president who captured the most votes in U.S. history also is avoiding the relatively simple task of reading a teleprompter of a speech written for him in an address to a joint session of Congress. No president in the modern era has not provided this address later than February. It's now mid-March and Team Biden hasn't even announced a general date yet because, we're told, the president wants to promote the aforementioned COVID-19 relief package that already has been signed into law.
Just spitballing here, but it would seem that the best way to promote the package is by addressing Congress and the televised stage it provides. More than 48 million tuned into President Trump's first address in 2017, which is 15 million more than the audience for Biden's inauguration speech. But Biden's handlers are punting anyway with no clear reason as to why. (The president can promote the package and deliver one primetime speech at the same time, one would think).
As for the commitment-to-truth thing, that too has been fleeting.
“Next month, in my first appearance before a joint session of Congress, I will lay out my ‘Build Back Better’ recovery plan,” Biden announced in late January. That never happened.
“I have this strange notion, we are a democracy ... if you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus,” Candidate Biden said last October, before the election. Yet, as of March 8, Biden had signed a very dictator-ish 37 executive orders, 13 presidential memoranda, 16 proclamations and seven notices, according to Ballotpedia — far outpacing his predecessors to this point.
"It's one thing about the vaccine — which we didn't have when we came into office — but a vaccinator, you need the needle, you need the mechanisms to be able to get it in," the president said.
Uh, no. Biden had two vaccines available upon taking office (Pfizer, Moderna) and a third that became available shortly after (Johnson & Johnson). Not only were nearly 1 million people already getting vaccinated per day when Biden took office, but he had received two doses himself in December and January. And this isn't a one-time gaffe, but a mistruth the president has pushed repeatedly in an attempt to take credit for something he had zero to do with. (See: "Operation Warp Speed under the previous administration.")
Rest - https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/543107-the-media-fact-checkers-finally-come-for-joe-biden
Rest is still the same as well, same as during the campaign. Joe is in hiding most of the time, then it's mostly just an appearance, and light talking, and with the teleprompter. He can't do well even with the teleprompter and sounds lost. Barely audible at times, forgetting things and not making much sense at other times. Still not doing any press conferences and still no state of the union address.
If he can't handle speaking, can't handle coming out and speaking fluently and responding to any questions that the press toss at him - then how in the hell does he run the country? Ever talk to foreign leaders? Talk with any groups of people in committees or wherever? :rolleyes:
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The media fact-checkers finally come for Joe Biden
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please," author Mark Twain once said.
Distorting facts has been all the rage for a Biden administration that was billed from the beginning as the most honest team assembled since the days of George Washington. The falsifications came to a loud head during the president's scripted address to the nation on Thursday night, which the Washington Post described as "heavy on emotion and hope, but light on facts." The New York Times said Biden "exaggerated elements of the coronavirus pandemic," among other things.
"President Biden's objective, and his commitment, is to bring transparency and truth back to government to share the truth, even when it's hard to hear," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki promised America on Day 1. But, instead, transparency has consisted of the Leader of the Free World being whisked away from event after event, away from reporters shouting questions over staffers shouting at reporters to leave. It also means Biden now owning the dubious distinction of not holding a formal press conference after taking office longer than his 15 predecessors dating back more than 100 years, before television was invented.
https://i.imgur.com/e8Kf53o.png
Team Biden is likely holding the president back from doing such an event because it might consist of answering questions around a border policy that has led to a full-blown crisis which includes kids back in cages amid a pandemic and COVID-positive migrants being released into the U.S. population. Such a press conference might also include questions around a COVID-19 relief package that only dedicates 9 percent of its $1.9 trillion to actually fighting the virus while pushing off billions allocated to help reopen schools until 2022, well after the pandemic is likely to be over.
The president who captured the most votes in U.S. history also is avoiding the relatively simple task of reading a teleprompter of a speech written for him in an address to a joint session of Congress. No president in the modern era has not provided this address later than February. It's now mid-March and Team Biden hasn't even announced a general date yet because, we're told, the president wants to promote the aforementioned COVID-19 relief package that already has been signed into law.
Just spitballing here, but it would seem that the best way to promote the package is by addressing Congress and the televised stage it provides. More than 48 million tuned into President Trump's first address in 2017, which is 15 million more than the audience for Biden's inauguration speech. But Biden's handlers are punting anyway with no clear reason as to why. (The president can promote the package and deliver one primetime speech at the same time, one would think).
As for the commitment-to-truth thing, that too has been fleeting.
“Next month, in my first appearance before a joint session of Congress, I will lay out my ‘Build Back Better’ recovery plan,” Biden announced in late January. That never happened.
“I have this strange notion, we are a democracy ... if you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus,” Candidate Biden said last October, before the election. Yet, as of March 8, Biden had signed a very dictator-ish 37 executive orders, 13 presidential memoranda, 16 proclamations and seven notices, according to Ballotpedia — far outpacing his predecessors to this point.
"It's one thing about the vaccine — which we didn't have when we came into office — but a vaccinator, you need the needle, you need the mechanisms to be able to get it in," the president said.
Uh, no. Biden had two vaccines available upon taking office (Pfizer, Moderna) and a third that became available shortly after (Johnson & Johnson). Not only were nearly 1 million people already getting vaccinated per day when Biden took office, but he had received two doses himself in December and January. And this isn't a one-time gaffe, but a mistruth the president has pushed repeatedly in an attempt to take credit for something he had zero to do with. (See: "Operation Warp Speed under the previous administration.")
Rest - https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/543107-the-media-fact-checkers-finally-come-for-joe-biden