More Fantasy-land Spin by Joe and Jill Biden in Interview With CBS – Opinion

Biden’s team is working on a plan to make Joe Biden, his administration more appealing to Americans. Last week they complained about treatment by the media — about the media treating Biden worse than President Donald Trump, which is a demonstrable untruth. They received some positive media attention after their complaints.

There is also an attempt to get rid of the fluffy interviews. Joe Biden did an ‘interview’ on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and now, Jill Biden has done one with CBS’s Rita Braver. The two were friendly, softball-playing friends in the extreme. It was all meant to look great.

Kamala Harris gave an interview to The San Francisco Chronicle in order to improve her image. She also tried to explain her problems with her staff to them, which Jeff Charles reported on. I don’t think they’ll be successful with this gambit, but they are trying.

Since I was able to cover some of the Jill Biden interview, I’d like to speak more. They released an earlier clip. The Fallon interview seemed softball. But the Braver interview was so tangled I almost thought I would go into sugar shock. The fawning was more than a bit much about “how seriously she takes her role,” “her energy never seems to flag,” and the Bidens are so concerned about unity (despite Biden attacking Republicans and those who disagree with him at every possible opportunity). Even her Christmas decorations get “rave reviews,” according to Braver.

“No matter where I travel across this country,” Jill Biden claimed, “A lot of people say to me, ‘Jill, I feel like I can breathe again. I’m grateful. Please tell the president thank you for what he’s doing.’”

They think they are people Buy this? This is propaganda. The Republicans should get the same time as the Democrats on this network. This is, of course, the same network. falsely claimedJill Biden received a Ph.D. last year, when she actually got an Ed.D.

We touched on part of the interview already — with the part where Jill Biden blew off Americans’ concerns about Joe’s mental fitness. But there’s a greater context of the question immediately prior to the mental fitness one… because we can see that one is a piece of fantasy as well.

Braver asked Jill Biden about:

“You’ve seen the president’s poll numbers drop. Does that bother you?”

“You know, I look at it a little differently, Rita: During the campaign, Joe made certain promises, things that he would do. We were experiencing a pandemic that no one could have predicted.

“So, he did come in and rescue America with the American Rescue Plan, and millions of families got money because they were desperate. There are vaccines available for children from five years old and older. And now with the infrastructure plan, we’re going to have better roads, and better buildings that don’t have asbestos, better drinking water.”

“So, do you figure once the public kind of comprehends this, things will turn around?”

“I do, I do,” she said.

“And one more question on that, on the polls: because there have been some recent polls that show that quite a few Americans have some questions about the president’s current mental fitness – as somebody who spends … I can see you shaking your head!”

“Yes.”

“So, what’s your response to that?”

“I think that’s ridiculous,” Jill Biden replied.

Joe Biden rescued America? Really? How did this happen? That must have been something I missed. How did his “American Rescue Plan” rescue America? Joe Biden even admitted to it contributing to our current inflation. Rescuing America is just pure fantasy, but this is what she’s trying to sell here.

However, that bill passed March. If she doesn’t think Americans are appreciating that now, but they will, exactly when does she think that’s going to happen? I’m thinking there isn’t anyone who believes that Joe Biden “rescued America” with that. Not when they’re facing the highest inflation surge in 39 years.

CBS asks the same question @FLOTUS about the polls with voters concerned about the president’s “current mental fitness”

“I think that’s ridiculous” pic.twitter.com/v9OsHoOyLp

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 12, 2021

As I said, she isn’t at all concerned that most Americans have questions about Joe’s mental fitness; she just dismissed that out of hand as not even worthy of her consideration. So, are we just supposed to pretend we don’t see what we see or hear what we hear with Joe because she dismisses it? It may be a sign that she cares more about us than we do, as I mentioned.

Braver asked Joe Biden if he would be willing to speak for Braver during the interview. Braver asked him if the “criticism got to [him].”

“And doesn’t that criticism get to you? And how does Dr. B help you through that?”

“Well, you know, I guess it should get to me more,” Mr. Biden said. “But look: one of the things we did decide, and I mean this, my word as a Biden, I know what I’m willing to lose over. We can’t walk away form the middle class and unify the people if you engage in the same type of politics as the past four years. I’m willing to lose over that.”

“You mean, you’re willing to lose your presidency?”

“My presidency, that’s right. Because I’m gonna stick with it. There’s certain things that are just, like for example Afghanistan. Well, I’ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning. Over 20 years, we spent $300 million per week on Afghanistan. Now, everybody says, ‘You could have gotten out without anybody being hurt.’ No one’s come up with a way to ever indicate to me how that happens.

“And so, there are certain things that are just so important.”

Here they go again with this falsehood that he’s constantly working to unify people, when he’s always attacking his opponents at virtually every opportunity. Indeed, he does it right there, in the very next sentence, saying “if we start to engage in the same politics as “the last four years has done.” He can’t even last one sentence without the lie blowing up on him.

But he’s still pushing how ‘right’ he was about Afghanistan? Incredible. Joe, you have other options that would be infinitely more effective than your current escape plan. He makes it clear again, he just wanted to get out — no matter who it hurt — with 13 dead, hundreds wounded, and the thousands left behind. Yes, his failure to judge the situation and poor judgement showed the rest of the world. It cost him a lot in public opinion. That’s when his polls did start to crater badly because people saw how bad he was in real-time.

It may eventually cost him his White House residency. And it should, perhaps more than any of the other things that he has done — because that’s where he truly abandoned Americans and our obligations to our allies.

They are going all-in trying to improve Joe’s image. But it isn’t working.