I wouldn't have heard it, had it not been for Useful Idiots. Matt Taibi and
Katie Halpern connected with it and commented on it while it was going on so
I watched the stream. They thought, given his limitations, he rated a B
plus. I, on the other hand, was horrified. It was obvious to them and to me
that the reporters were pre selected. For the most part, it was a show with
predetermined questions. Only in two cases did reporters step out of line
and ask demanding questions. Biden functions with all kinds of behind the
scenes assistance, drugs and cheat sheets and God knows what else. His
ability to speak with clarity and spontaneity is limited, to say the least.
Everything that he says is, of course, propaganda fashioned to support US
policy and to obscure truth. I do remember a time when presidents were
bombarded with hardball questions by reporters. What happened today was a
mere pretense. It wasn't a real press conference at all. I think the last
honest press conference took place before Helen Thomas was thrown out of the
White House press corps for angering a president, perhaps Obama, perhaps
Bush. But this travesty that occurred today demonstrates how far from a
Democracy with press freedom, we are.
Miriam
