Thursday’s news conference is just the type of event many political watchers have said Biden needs to pull off successfully to turn back demands that he withdraw from his reelection battle against Trump.
— Meg Kinnard (@MegKinnardAP) July 11, 2024
My latest, on how to watch it: https://t.co/DjoaqtA4lW
Good luck, Joe
Media will crop and cherry pick a loss out of it no matter how good he is. Just watch and curse.
Before the debate, I remember reading about the agreed-upon “ground rules” and being pleased with the felon’s mic being muted when it was the President’s turn to speak.
Now I think it might have been a bad idea, because Biden could hear the felon’s non-stop loud ranting, but the audience couldn’t. So Biden’s pauses (while he tried not to listen to his opponent’s raving) looked like he was simply staring into space in a silent room.
It reminded me of the famous Dean Scream isolated mic and the false impression it created.
I think might have been better to keep both mics on, so audiences could get a more realistic idea of what was happening in that room, and what Biden was dealing with.
Am I wrong?