Old Joe's Snoozefest and Media Hypocrisy

 In case you didn’t watch Old Joe’s address to a joint session of Congress (dis-jointed is a more suitable word), you didn’t miss much. It was just one of those typical snoozefest speeches full of a laundry list of things the president wants to get done-not to mention a “celebration” of his first 100 days, which Biden described as “historic”.

It’s not worth going over the speech point by point, but suffice, to say the optics were terrible. There was Old Joe, looking old and tired, which he is, with less than half the chamber filled because of the Covid crisis-oh, wait! Is it still a crisis or has Old Joe solved the problem in the first 100 days? Embarrassingly, his speech implied that it was thanks to him that we are on our way to recovery. Not a word about President Trump’s Operation Warp Speeed, which removed barriers to the development of a vaccine in less than a year. Nope. All credit to Old Joe and Kamala, who Old Joe is delegating all his work to in order to smooth her way into the presidency when he has to step down for reasons of health. All in all, it was your typical SOTU speech, forgettable. (There seems to be a question as to whether this was really a SOTU, a just a speech to Congress. Whatever.

But to hear the media (with the notable exception of Fox) tell it, the speech was one for the ages. This media pointedly ignores the obvious fact that we have a president drifting into senility. They never hesitated to question Regan’s cognitive decline in his second term, but apparently having a president with the same problem on Inauguration Day isn’t news.

I did not watch Tim Scott’s rebuttal, but, naturally, the media is attacking him. Apparently, Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, ruffled a few feathers when he stated that America is not a racist country. Some fools on social media are calling him, “Uncle Tim”. Shameful, but that is the treatment that black conservatives get. Too bad the media doesn’t show the same indignation when politicians like Maxine Waters incite violence in the streets, a charge they don’t hesitate to make against Trump for his January 6 speech in Washington. Trump tells his crowd to march to the Capitol “patriotically and peacefully” while Waters tells a crowd in Minneapolis to “get more confrontational” if they didn’t get a guilty verdict in the Chauvin trial. Hypocrisy.

But none of this matters to the media. They will continue to push the narrative that it was a great speech, full of hope and optimism, when, in truth, it was just like every other speech to Congress, whether Republican or Democrat-just an ordeal to watch.

By the way, Mr President. Great suit you had on last night.