Joe Biden Sounds Confused

When you’ve lost CNN…. 

Apparently, CNN journalists are reaching their embarrassment limit. Each of us has a limit beyond which we can no longer embarrass ourselves. For CNN journalists, the problem has been getting worse and worse. From the appalling misconduct of one Chris Cuomo to the two pedophile producers, clearly CNN journalists' ability to absorb shame has been sorely tested. Their ratings are on life support, so perhaps it’s time for a reset.

Anyway, our enfeebled president did an interview with ABC and CNN journalists were reporting on it. Jeff Zeleny, in particular, had had enough. He felt obligated to state the obvious-- that cerebrally challenged Joe Biden seemed largely confused. Worse yet, even when he stuck to his script, Biden was lying through his teeth.

The Daily Mail has the story:

Biden, 79, spoke to ABC's David Muir for 20 minutes on Wednesday - defending his administration against criticism of its handling of the pandemic and readiness for Omicron, but also admitting that there were certain mistakes made.

Asked about complaints that the lines to get tested for COVID-19 were excessive, with waits of over five hours in New York City, Biden said that 500 million at-home tests had been ordered. But several times he referred to the tests as 'pills' - potentially thinking of the Pfizer antiviral pills, which were federally approved on the same day.

'Repeatedly throughout this interview - President Biden seems confused and was confusing the half a billion tests that they've ordered with a half a billion pills,' said Jeff Zeleny, CNN's chief national affairs correspondent.

And that's not all.

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny says Joe Biden is “not accepting any responsibility for this lack of testing.”

“There is no sense from this administration [tests] will be sent out early in January as the president suggested."

A relevant point, since, as of this writing, the Biden administration has yet to order the millions of tests.

Zeleny was just warming up:

'Of course, pills were in the news today with the Pfizer approval of the anti-viral, so he corrected himself, but that was one thing that stuck out to me.'

Zeleny, appearing on Wolf Blitzer's show on Wednesday afternoon, accused Biden of 'really not accepting any responsibility' for the lack of testing.

And Zeleny was holding the president to account, a point well worth noting:

'Simply, this administration, and the president leading the charge here, really not accepting any responsibility at all for this lack of testing,' Zeleny said.

'We've seen these images across the country, long lines, just the inability to get tests.

'And yes, Omicron came on very quickly here, but it has been almost a month since Thanksgiving where they knew this was coming.

'So he said he wishes he could have acted faster, and then explains why he didn't.'

In any event, there is only so much spinning you  can do before you get dizzy. Once that happens you will normally do as Jeff Zeleny did, and start telling the truth.