Yesterday, the media tried to leverage Joe’s intimate NATO opening address into a comeback story. But not so fast! After a brief low tide of media attacks early this week, during which Joe Biden’s prospects began walking stiffly out of the surf back onto dry land, the water began washing back in. This morning’s first example is a BBC story headlined, “
Biden's bruising day sinks hopes Democrats will move on.”
The trouble began when, just as the media was returning to its normal gaslighting about Joe’s potato-like intellect, the New York Times ran an op-ed by George Clooney that jammed the knife back in, right between Joe’s third and fourth political ribs.
Three weeks ago, Clooney hosted a gala, big-money, widely-reported Hollywood fundraiser for Joe. It was the one for which Joe skipped Zelensky’s non-peace peace conference. The one where leaked video showed Barack Obama leading Joe off the stage like a lost puppy. The one after which vexed Karine Von Claude asked Peter Doocy whether it was a crime to “not dance.”
Anyway, for his own reasons, after raising tons of money for Joe, and after being a top Hollywood Democrat for most of his overlong acting career, George Clooney apparently decided that yesterday was the right time to call for Joe to step down. To emphasize his point, Clooney confirmed that the Joe who came to his fundraiser
was in fact the same decrepit Joe that America saw during the dreadful debate:
The BBC, citing Clooney’s op-ed, opined this could be
it for Joe, despite how well Joe led NATO from behind:
Yesterday, Democrat party leaders deployed a new dodge and alert journalists immediately picked up on it. For example, when asked, Nancy Pelosi pretended Joe is still
thinking about it, as though he hadn’t just delivered a neatly-typed, two-page letter saying he wasn’t going anywhere:
Even though Joe
has clearly already decided, Pelosi still warned reporters yesterday that Joe doesn’t have much time left
to decide.
ABC-7 New York:
Nancy and Joe are like an old married couple, arguing through the headlines:
HIM: I’m going to buy that Ford after all.
HER: Well, take your time deciding. Don’t rush into something again.
HIM: Woman, I already decided. I’m buying it.
HER: Just decide
wisely.
Perhaps the worst news of all for Biden’s presidential prospects came from this alliterative but sobering NBC headline:
NBC assigned one of their better writers to the story, who neatly incorporated lots of great disaster-related words describing the Biden campaign’s new cash crunch:
Disasters, seismic earthquakes, fallout, and tolls taken.
The money has absolutely shut off, they complained. But that is precisely what happens when the media questions whether a candidate will continue in a race. Why should people dump
more money into a campaign, until they know for certain who the candidate will be? Worse, a recent donor call with Joe intended to reassure monied Dems
seemed fake. Joe just couldn’t sell it:
If money is the mother’s milk of politics, then Biden’s baby is starving. Merely having
the question hanging over his campaign is hurting collections. And
the question doesn’t seem like it’s going away, not if nagging Nancy has anything to do with it.
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