There’s nothing like blue-check journalists replying to other blue-check journalists on Twitter, especially when they’re “conservatives” like the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin reviewing President Biden’s performance at his first press conference, 64 days into his term.
We also like how New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser brings up Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the latter of whom challenged Biden to have an unscripted live “conversation” streamed over the internet. (Biden didn’t accept; he’s busy.)
Both Trump and Putin have spent many months suggesting Biden could not answer simple questions, setting the bar so low for him he does not even need to jump over it.
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) March 25, 2021
To be fair, Biden didn’t do himself any favors by waiting longer than any other president in the last hundred years to hold a press conference. Even a very sympathetic Jake Tapper suggested he finally scheduled a press conference just to get people to stop talking about it.
Anyway, no matter who set it, the bar was set low, and while many would consider Biden a limbo champion, Rubin said Biden was “about a mile over” the low bar set for him. Just look at those “remarkably long” sentences he made it through.
His answers are remarkably long, detailed, fact-filled. He's about a mile over the low bar.
— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) March 25, 2021
— 82Brew (@rodgers_jeff) March 25, 2021
— P1TTFAN (@P1TTFAN) March 25, 2021
Recommended
Watch it again when you sober up.
— Lexi (@penngirl72) March 25, 2021
It’s too early to be this drunk.
— DOUG JONES (@DOUG___JONES) March 25, 2021
maybe too long in a few cases
— Kirara Decline ? (@CodecMendoza) March 25, 2021
I just felt bad for the poor guy. No one should have to work at 78. And you can see why.
— @Private Citizen Shemp (@presidentshemp) March 25, 2021
Maybe I missed it… can you provide an example?
— _dempster_ (@_dempster_) March 25, 2021
the question was on guns. He is spending an hour on infrastructure…
— Blake Gober (@blakebgober) March 25, 2021
“I don’t know, just to be clear”
So much detail….
— ?? Unfollowing Everyone Acosta?? (@JayPark71553294) March 25, 2021
he literally had to read notes to answer
— jimmy a (@jimmysfotos) March 25, 2021
Tends to happen when you’re given the questions in advance.
— Sophia Jackson (@SophiaKU92) March 25, 2021
He had over 60 days to prepare for predetermined questions he had notes on. It was a complete train wreck.
— Bitter Tim (@3TimRice) March 25, 2021
Likely bc he's reading from the playbook. I mean, he's on the wrong page half the time but at least it's the playbook he was given.
— Mike Davis (@DavisMike73) March 25, 2021
He’s reading the answers from notes. He’s calling on preselected reporters. But yeah, a mile above the bar. Lol
— Lhop (@Lhop963) March 25, 2021
He read scripted answers to prescreened questions. He’s a mile UNDER the low bar.
— MagaMich (@michelemick) March 25, 2021
One of those things where it feels as if we are watching two different things. Look at him trying at 38 minute point. And either the filibuster is a Jim Crow relic, or it is something to be reformed. He tried to have it both ways. Very strange reaction on this thread.
— Bel Aves (@BelAves) March 25, 2021
Jim Eagle???
— SwiminoleJAY (@jaymcgarity1976) March 25, 2021
“Fact-filled”
— Ben (@Jorgy4Real) March 25, 2021
Anyone else starting to believe Rubin is not a real person? She can’t be. No one can be this delusional.
— ??DG?? (@7pints) March 25, 2021
Just go away. He’s senile. We all know it. It was sad and embarrassing and he had notes that he read from directly.
— Jill Kalata (@Jill_Connor) March 25, 2021
I agree he did a good job for someone with declining dementia.
— rm (@rmrm1387) March 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/Ryan8766/status/1375159755191283713
— Momdog1017 (@jshort99) March 25, 2021
If I could create a computer program to translate the words of a 23-year old dog into English, it would sound more coherent and lucid than that press conference. He managed to sink beneath a bar that was firmly set on the floor.
— Phil (@philllosoraptor) March 25, 2021
You are a clown. He is a disaster.
— Maladjusted (@hrm_1973) March 25, 2021
You sound like you are trying to convince yourself of that.
— Dan Boone (@TNConserv13) March 25, 2021
— Scott Harvey (@sdharv19) March 25, 2021
Uh, uh, anyway. I give him 3 months.
— Dee-Plorable Chumps Neanderthal Thug Nazi (@b4bama14) March 25, 2021
Rubin’s probably typing up her column right now on what a brilliant performance Biden gave.
Related:
‘You can’t BE this stupid, right?’ NBC journo slobbering all over Biden ‘knocking it out of the park’ during presser BACKFIRES hilariously https://t.co/yNvqoc5LFk
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 25, 2021