Thursday’s entrance web page at The New York Occasions featured a narrative headlined, “Biden, Wearied and Stinging, Prepares to Exit.” White Home reporters Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs had been blunt within the third paragraph about Biden’s incapacity to do the job any extra (with out brazenly expressing concern over how he is doing it proper now).
Time is catching up with Mr. Biden. He seems just a little older and just a little slower with every passing day. Aides say he stays a lot sharp within the State of affairs Room, calling world leaders to dealer a cease-fire in Lebanon or take care of the chaos of Syria’s rebel. However it’s exhausting to think about that he severely thought he might do the world’s most aggravating job for one more 4 years.
By some means, the morning pundits on MSNBC did not assume this passage was the spotlight. As a substitute, Means Too Early host Jonathan Lemire led off his 5 am present with readings that swerved across the blunt stuff. He started paragraphs six and 7. Then he briefly famous Biden’s “fragility” was “painfully clear” in paragraph 13, then rushed ahead to paragraph 20 touting his “command of the main points.”
MSNBC’s “Means Too Early” on Wednesday led with a @nytimes story on Weary Biden (on the entrance web page as we speak). Jon Lemire reeeally popped round to the extra constructive paragraphs. pic.twitter.com/DioH9pcT2D
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) December 19, 2024
This was the delicate stuff in paragraphs 13, 14, and 16:
Throughout his go to to the Amazon rainforest final month, his fragility appeared painfully clear to these touring with him.
After talking for seven minutes on a day of draining humidity, a blue shirt hanging loosely over his body, he turned to slowly shuffle away down a mud path as a number of individuals within the viewers not used to seeing him up shut mentioned they held their breath, frightened that he would journey. (Aides mentioned his gait was no extra unsteady than common.)
….When Mr. Biden visited the Nationwide Museum of Slavery that afternoon, he didn’t really enter the principle constructing to view the exhibitions; as a substitute, artifacts had been introduced outdoors to indicate him, which two individuals conversant in the planning attributed to concern that the steep stairs can be an excessive amount of of a problem.
Baker and Kanno-Youngs additionally touched on how “a number of” individuals touring with the president famous he “maintained a light-weight schedule at instances and generally mumbled, making him exhausting to know.”
On Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski solely repeated paragraphs 6 and seven, and the way Trump was so “ungrateful” for the supposedly vibrant economic system.
On “Morning Joe,” Mika Brzezinski carried out a dramatic studying of simply two paragraphs from the @nytimes, hyping how Biden is “claiming credit score for a wholesome economic system that he’s turning over to his ungrateful predecessor.” pic.twitter.com/Lac7QAbS0K
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) December 19, 2024
Morning Joe additionally didn’t revisit how Biden’s “fragility” was portrayed by them as a lie, as Joe Scarborough uttered our Quote Of The Yr, claiming ridiculously that the 2024 model of Biden was the “greatest Biden ever.”
