Progressives have found their coping strategy for the fact that so many Americans think Joe Biden is too old to serve another term as president. They’ve concluded it’s all the media’s fault.
Judd Legum insists, “[the] media creates [the] Biden ‘fitness’ crisis.”
Over in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch seethes that the media keeps making mountains out of molehills, because Biden is so obviously up to another five years in office.
It’s the media’s failure to put Biden’s occasional slips into any meaningful context. Unfortunately, Ronald Reagan helped cement the idea of a president as performer-in-chief, when that’s really not the job. The person in the White House is CEO of an outfit with a cadre of whip-smart top aides and cabinet secretaries overseeing nearly 3 million federal employees. They implement policies set by what is in the president’s heart, not the speed of the neurons in his brain. No one is going to drop a bomb on Norway instead of Syria because POTUS said the wrong word in the Oval Office.
Michael Tomasky of the New Republic fumes, “The Only Mental Acuity I’m Questioning These Days Is the Mainstream Media’s.”
Mmm, indeed, life is just so unfair to the Democrats. If only the mainstream media would go easier on the Democrats and be tougher on Republicans.
These folks seem to think that if the media didn’t cover Biden’s age, Americans wouldn’t notice. In the ABC News poll, 86 percent of Americans think Biden, 81, is too old to serve another term as president. That doesn’t reflect the mainstream media brainwashing Americans into perceiving Biden as too old. That reflects Americans having eyes and ears.