The media refuses to face the fact that Joe Biden isn't close to collapsing (by John Podhoretz)

[Skya Rhen]

Dear Fellow Members of the Media: We need to talk about the way you’re covering the Democratic race for president. Consider this an intervention. You all went crazy on Monday when a single poll showed a national tie between Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. It was like a ticker-tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes; articles suggesting a historic shakeup in the Democratic race rained down upon America like ticker tape. Huzzah! We have a whole new race!

No matter that it was literally the only poll in which Biden has not led by at least 2 points out of 68 national surveys dating back to April 8 (and in most of those, Biden led by double digits). Not even 48 hours later, two others came out showing Biden ahead by 12 or 14.

Look, I’m sorry you’re bored. I’m sorry you want more drama. I know you want Elizabeth Warren to be surging because she has such wonderful policy papers. I know you want Bernie Sanders gaining symbolic force by starring in Twitter videos in which he hits punching bags.

He makes this gaffe, he makes that gaffe, he makes the other gaffe and still he leads. He leads even as Bill de Blasio continues to make himself the biggest New York laughingstocks since “Moose Murders” opened and closed on the same night on Broadway in 1983.

That’s the story. Biden leads. It’s boring. But it’s the story. The other stories are not stories. They are acts of desperate wish-fulfillment. Reporters and editors on the left don’t want Biden to be the nominee. Reporters and editors who want excitement don’t want Biden’s lead to just sit there like an Easter Island statue, large and unmoving and inscrutable. But there’s not a single shred of actual data to contest this reality: Biden is well on his way.



*** I have not attached the link to this article by John Podhoretz (a Never-Trumper who is an MSNBC contributor) but please feel free to Google it, if you wish ***

[winetourdriver01]

1. Joe

Go Joe!

[comradebillyboy]

2. Infotainment industry pundits want excitement. Good competent

government isn't exciting enough. Crisis and chaos get the TV viewers and the internet clicks. What the pundits want is bad for America.

[Gothmog]

3. Joe Biden is the most electable candidate that the Democratic Party has available

[saidsimplesimon]

4. Elizabeth Warren is the most electable. imo

[Demsrule86]

8. She is not...Warren does not poll well with an important consituency AA voters...she will not be

the nominee and shouldn't if she can't do better with AA voters. I do not believe she is electable...espcially with MFA and some of her other positions.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. He's pretty snotty toward the other candidates, but his point is well-taken.

The media hysteria over the one poll that was admittedly an outlier proves the point that Biden's consistent lead isn't giving the talking heads enough to talk about, and so they have to manufacture a close race where, at least so far, none exists. That could change, of course, but for now there's no new news.

[NYMinute]

6. K&R

The so called "gaffes" are baked in. Every Biden supporter expects them and says "meh!"

The so called "gaffes" actually make Biden appear authentic and human -- not a scripted/polished politician who will say what one wants to hear.

[HeartlandProgressive]

7. It's silly to think Joe is going away

Joe, Bernie, Elizabeth, Kamala and Pete all have enormous campaign funds, they will all be around campaigning for a very long time

[Demsrule86]

9. Kamala and Pete have no chance...don't know why they remain in the race...it comes down to

the top three.

[highplainsdem]

10. Thanks for posting this excerpt! Here's the NY Post link (other DUers link to the Post):

https://nypost.com/2019/08/28/the-media-refuses-to-face-the-fact-that-joe-biden-isnt-close-to-collapsing/


It's well worth reading in its entirety.