You don’t need a news agency to tell you what happened – see for yourself. Watch Joe Biden at the end of his conversation with Barack Obama at a glamorous fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday night and decide if you think this is normal behavior:
Biden freezes before Obama grabs him by the arm and leads him off the stage. Yuck! 😳 pic.twitter.com/nCgAGitoQ6
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 16, 2024
Nick Arama of RedState summed up their assessment of the moment as follows:
Oops, that’s true.
It’s not normal that he just stood there and Obama had to lead him away by the hand. How could anyone vote for that? He did something similar at the Juneteenth celebration. But comparing the two of them as they left the stage only highlighted the problem. What’s also appalling is that the crowd is clapping and completely ignoring the problems.
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The White House and Barack Obama (some would say they are the same thing) responded quickly and told you that what you had seen was not what actually happened.
that didn’t happen https://t.co/QAPOCla3Sq
— Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) June 16, 2024
“That didn’t happen,” wrote Obama’s senior adviser Eric Shultz. Well, what happened then?
Meanwhile, Biden’s deputy press secretary Andrew Bates sent a quite snippy answer to the New York Post, the media outlet that brought the Hunter story about the “laptop from hell” to featherlight and was promptly censored for it:
“After just being scrutinized by at least six mainstream news organizations for lying about President Biden with cheap fakes, Rupert Murdoch’s sad little super PAC, the New York Post, is once again disrespecting its readers and itself by pretending that it is somehow wrong for the President to take in an applauding crowd for a few seconds,” Bates’ statement said. “Their ethical standards could use a little thawing.”
Note the employ of the term “cheap fakes.” Get used to it, because you’ll probably hear a lot more of them as we get closer to the election. A parody of the term “deep fakes,” which refers to images created or manipulated using artificial intelligence, the idea is that right-wing media will try to deceive you by not showing you the full context of a video, manipulating its speed, or cropping it.
They complain in particular about clips that were circulated after Biden’s disastrous D-Day appearances, in which the president rambled during a photo shoot and generally gave the impression that he was out of touch with the times. The Washington Post was horrified that Republicans would dare to make Biden’s mental weakness public:
In edited videos, Republican officials and allies of former President Donald Trump repeatedly attempted to turn Biden’s visit to Normandy into a recap of the key moments and missteps of his office, with the goal of portraying the president as feeble, confused or overwhelmed…But an examination of video footage of the events in Normandy, France, makes it clear that the selected clips have been edited to paint a particularly damaging – and often misleading – picture.
Here too, you decide for yourself:
It is unimaginable how many medications they have to give him for the debate. pic.twitter.com/Fzf8Yx7nxO
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 13, 2024
You can say all you want that the video was cropped or slowed down or whatever, but that doesn’t change the fact that we’re watching a man who seems completely out of his mind half the time.
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You can keep telling us that we don’t see what we see, but I can tell you who is watching with crystal clear vision: the American people.
