Two-Thirds of Only 7,500 Viewers of Biden’s Latest Press Conference Give It a ‘Thumbs Down’ – But Biden Won 81 Million Votes in the 2020

@MistyCee I get it - I mean, if you factor in how crappy Biden has been the last 8 months, maybe it's not implausible that he lost so much support.

@Budwick Precisely, especially if you poll this month.

Seriously, my guess is that Biden's approval ratings are going to be a whole lot more volatile then the former guy. Biden really doesnt have a devoted fan base, and maybe not even quite as hardcore an opposition.

You'd think he'd be easy to beat in 2024. We'll see.

@MistyCee I'm not sure Biden will make it to the end of the month!

@Budwick lol. I'd take that bet through the end of August at least.

@MistyCee And yet, elsewhere on this site, you'll find plenty of Trumpsters explaining how useless polls are, and how the only poll that matters is on Election Day.

@MistyCee


How about to the end of this year?

Even Biden's formerly reliable lapdog defenders like CNN and Newsweek are publishing articles about his debacle that would have been unthinkable a few months ago.
They seem to be turning on him like they turned on Cuomo, once his anti-Trump usefulness was at an end.

@Thinkerbell I think he'll likely last through December, but at least there's a better bet.

I don't think turning on him is quite right, though, because for all that they're hammering him, they're still not treating him like an enemy, which they kind of did with the last guy after he declared them as the enemy.

Seems to me like Biden is betting he can weather the criticism. I'm not sure he can succeed, but I don't think this in and itself will do him in.

@MistyCee

I said "like they[the MSM]turned on Cuomo," not how they reported on Trump.


I don't think Biden is able to think strategically at all.
He just walks out and reads whatever his handlers have put on the teleprompter.
It wouldn't surprise me if they are setting him up to be replaced, in concert with the MSM.

@Thinkerbell There's probably something to be said for Biden being "handled," but I doubt it's that simple, or even as obvious looking at it was with W.

I do think Biden likely still has political instincts after all these years, for better or worse.


But I really don't buy the conspiracy with the MSM thing, especially without Trump in the picture.

@MistyCee


The comparison you are trying to make is laughable. True, W wasn't the brightest bulb in the room, but at least his "handlers" let him conduct press conferences that weren't scripted, like when Biden reads out the names of pre-selected reporters to ask question to which Biden already has the answers ready to read back. Furthermore, I think W independently bought into the neocon ideas of nation building, and wasn't simply going with the flow, willy-nilly, like Biden always has. More about that later. But first:




His political instincts have always been to go along with whoever is in charge at the moment.




It is precisely because Trump isn't in the picture that the MSM is turning on Biden; his usefulness is over. CNN, for example, lost half its audience without Trump to excoriate; they couldn't attract flies with wishy-washy stories praising Biden, which even the lefty faithful could plainly see were nonsense. 🤫

@Thinkerbell Sorry, but you really lost me with the Biden's handlers acting "in concert" with the MSM.

I'll buy that, but for Trump, they might have been harder on Biden before and that they're going after him pretty tough right now, but I think that's explainable without conspiracies.

@MistyCee

You are too easily lost.
Acting "in concert" doesn't necessarily mean there is a "conspiracy"; it means that the parties concerned are singing or playing the same (figurative) tune together, each perhaps for their own reasons.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/in-concert

@Thinkerbell Sorry about that. I've talking with too many folks who do see conspiracies everywhere recently.

I'm still not quite convinced though, that the MSM is "turning" on Biden, because they want to get rid of him, even for their own reasons.


Here's an interesting left leaning piece I just ran across talking about the media's coverage of Biden.

I don't agree with all of what he says, but I do think he's got some good points about the media coverage.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/why-the-media-is-worse-for-biden-than-trump.html

@MistyCee

From your link:


"HALF?!" Is he kidding?
Fox News (and more recently Newsmax) vs ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC and NPR is "half"? And the unequal ratio in print media is about the same.


Says the commentator for a magazine that loathed GW Bush for 8 tears, positively swooned over 8 years of Obama, LOATHED Trump for 4 years, and had practically NOTHING negative to say about Hillary or Biden when they were running. "Substantial independence," my foot. 😂


"Sane?" "Competent?" An unprecedented crisis at our southern border and a deadly debacle in Afghanistan is "sane" and "competent"?
I think the liberal media are indeed turning on Biden because they have belatedly realized that having a mentally impaired man as President and an unqualified woman as Vice President will lead to further disasters, not the least of which (as far as the narrow interests of the media are concerned) will be the mid-term elections next year.

@Thinkerbell All good points.

But I wonder about the "half" thing as well. If you add up the viewers numbers on that chart, it looks like Fox might well be a lot more than half.