No. of Recommendations: 4
Best quote in the video.
"We need a lot less panicking and a lot more working." This is what makes MSNBC not at all like Fox:
The network’s biggest star, Rachel Maddow, seemed to grow frustrated when California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said in an interview that Democrats should “worry less and do more.”
What do you think that people who support President Biden, people in Democratic politics, people who are planning on voting for him, who are worried that he seemed older than they expected tonight, that he didn’t seem to reassure people on stamina issues, — what should people do?” washingtonpost.com - Msnbc joe biden debate criticismAlso from the article:
Host Alex Wagner said that Biden’s answers were “rambling and incoherent,” adding that the president “did nothing to disabuse the country of the notion that he is very old and was lost frequently in that debate.”
“It was not a good performance,” Symone Sanders-Townsend, a former Biden White House senior adviser turned MSNBC host and pundit, said Tuesday morning. She added that “the chatter will not end” about Biden’s age.
“No one who watched with their eyes thought that was a good performance,” said Jen Psaki, Biden’s former press secretary, who also hosts a show on the network.
Biden’s “job was to calm his party,” said MSNBC host Joy Reid. “To make them feel that: ‘Yes, I can do this. I have four more years in me. I have the ability and the stamina and the strength to do four more years.’ He did not do that. He did the opposite of that.” How about one more, the MSNBC show that Biden actually watches and is friends with the hosts:
Perhaps the most significant shift occurred on the network’s morning show “Morning Joe,” which has reliably trumpeted Biden and hosted relatively sympathetic interviews with the president and Vice President Harris.
the host began his Friday morning broadcast by saying that Biden “tragically did not rise to the occasion last night.”
Scarborough said he loves the president and believes he has had a productive administration. But, he added, “Donald Trump lied over and over and over and over again, and Joe Biden couldn’t respond to any of those lies.”
Most strikingly, Scarborough predicted that Trump would win reelection in November “unless things change.” A taped interview with a sympathetic TV host is to going to do it. That will be seen by a tiny fraction of the people who saw the debate, will have zero impact, and because it is on tape can be (and will be suspected of being) judiciously edited.
