The first press conference is in the can. And everyone there made a spectacle of themselves, asking all the questions Fox was not able to ask. Respected names were asking dumb questions. ABC wondered aloud if Biden thought the housing situation down at the border was acceptable. The worst you could say about it was that it was somewhat boring. Biden was slow and measured in his answers, sometimes succinct and at other times offering more detail than any of them could have asked for.
I’m more than a bit irritated how easily the media allowed themselves to indulge on the topic of the border. They’re doing little more than parroting right wing talking points, or outright misrepresenting what’s happening there. Perhaps they were faced with no other way to lay a glove on a president who seems to be getting big results that matter. I understand that the press is supposed to challenge and speak a little truth to power, but they too eagerly fed at the conservative trough to get their story this time. You can tell Biden is certainly less than amused by it, and I sense that he and the press are going to have an adversarial relationship if they don’t have one already. That’s too bad, because after four years of calling the press the enemy of the people I was hoping for a little respite from that insane dynamic. When asked today if he thought that governors should hold back on lifting mask mandates, Joe hadn’t much for them except for one word. “Yes”, he replied, sounding annoyed by the question.
(So, these days, Joe is short on friends-widening the middle ground and pushing the left and right into a smaller space. This progressive Democrat is unconcerned. We need his old, but firm hand on the wheel for just a little more. He’s only 78, with the best doctors in the world checking his vitals and making him do more than “man, person, television, camera, woman, TV”or whatever order Trump said it in to assure everyone of his genius status and how stable it was. I think we can claw the House back in ’24, and I also happen to think Katie Porter or Adam Schiff can keep DiFi’s seat and that Ruben Gallego can get Kyrsten Sinema thrown out of office. Fifty two senators allow us to kill the filibuster and make this country more democratic by passing things with a simple majority. We Democrats do good things, we stay in power and do more good things.)
The Illogical Seminary 