Tuesday, September 1, 2020

The Reviews Are In . . .

For Slow Joe's Out of the Basement, and into a hidden industrial ruin in Pittsburgh speech, and they're not good. Clinton, Obama voter Ann Althouse has a scathing fisking at "Ask yourself: do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really?"
Joe Biden went to Pittsburg today, where he read a speech indoors. Here's the video. I can't tell if he has an audience. There's no engagement with any questioners. I don't really know how this is different from speaking from his own home, but it was presented in the press as an important occasion. The NYT says: "Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday issued a forceful rebuttal to President Trump’s misleading charges that he would preside over a country wracked by disorder and lawlessness...." I watched the first minute of the video, but it was too tedious. I was distracted by the metal grid behind him.

I thought it looked like a screen and fantasized about a remake of "The Fly."

So I'm just going to read the transcript and react to it for you as I read:
In recent days, we’ve had a lot of talk about who’s going where and how I’ve decided to come to Pittsburgh to talk a little bit about what’s going on right now....
So vague. Such a weak beginning. You'd think he'd specify what the talk was. Trump's going to Lake Charles, Louisiana and Kenosha, Wisconsin? If he'd specified, we'd know Trump's decisions were based on the hurricane and the Jacob Blake incident. But there's no reason for choosing Pittsburgh. It's just: Here I am in Pittsburgh, talking a little bit. There's a lack of drive and purpose.
In the early days of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt told the country, and I quote, “The news is going to get worse and worse before it gets better and better. And the American people deserve to have it straight from the shoulder.” Straight from the shoulder. The job of a president is to tell it straight from the shoulder, tell the truth, to be candid, to face facts, to lead, not to incite. That’s why I’m speaking to you today. The incumbant president is incapable of telling us the truth, incapable of facing the facts and incapable of healing. He doesn’t want to shed light, he wants to generate heat and he’s stroking violence in our cities.
I checked the video, and he really does say that Trump is "stroking violence in our cities." Meade says, "He's thinking about how he likes to stroke little girls' hair." . . . .
Go to the link for the complete scorching.

Insty, VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Joe Biden Hits the Campaign Trail, It Hits Back.

Ed Scarry, WaEx, Joe Biden's statement on the violence and riots is way too little, way too late. Not to mention made because they started to see the polls go the wrong way.

Stephen Kruiser, PJ Media,  Media Won't Be Able to Prop Up Drooling Train Wreck Biden for 2 More Months
The mainstream media is going to have to cover for more than just Biden’s inability to keep it together on camera. This addled idiot is all over the place on policy positions. In a world where the internet didn’t exist it might be possible to sweep things like this under the rug. Now that your partisan media friends like Yours Truly are a fixture, that’s harder to get away with.

Biden’s most recent star-turn in public was spectacularly awful:
Ace, Sundown Joe's Big Outside-the-Basement Adventure
Red State, ‘This Is Really Bad’ — Social Media Weighs in After Biden’s Very Bad Day in Pittsburgh. A sample:
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  1. ckSeptember 1, 2020 at 12:46 PM

    Althouse, really? The head navel gazer of Suburban Housewives in a bubble.

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