In his prime Joe Biden was blathering idiot, racist, plagiarizer, and gaffe machine. Now that his mind is shot, he can’t even get through a Zoom interview from his basement with a friendly outlet and a teleprompter with out making an ass of himself. The last thing anyone from his camp wants is for him to take the debate stage against President Trump. Luckily the liberal media is part of Team Biden and is laying all the necessary groundwork for the democrat to back out of the debates.
Nothing on the left happens organically, they take their orders from a central liberal authority. Today’s memo is: make excuses for Biden to not debate Trump. As directed, the liberal media has flooded the Interwebz with this crap:
The New Republic:
Let’s Cancel the Presidential Debates Forever
There are few signs that America will have the virus under control by the time the debates roll around. In fact, many have predicted a worsening situation in the fall. With this in mind, it raises the question: Why should anyone risk their life to attend something as pointless as a presidential debate?
The truth is that the debates have long since stopped serving the needs of voters and instead only exist to benefit television networks and cable news, in particular. Perhaps it’s time to consign them to the dustbin of history.
The Washington Post publishes articles you can’t read unless you pay, so f*ck them:
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) August 3, 2020
Newsweek:
Supporters Urge Joe Biden Not to Debate Trump, Applaud Hosts for Canceling Over COVID-19 Concerns
Democratic strategists and supporters of Vice President Joe Biden are urging him not to debate President Donald Trump in the lead-up to Election Day, citing Trump’s publicity stunts and disregard for the rules in 2016.
Longtime Democratic strategist and former Hillary Clinton senior adviser Zac Petkanas agreed with calls for Biden to back out of any and all debates with Trump in the coming months. As it stands currently, there are three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate scheduled between September 29 and October 22.
“Biden shouldn’t feel obligated to throw Trump a lifeline by granting him any debates at all. This is not a normal presidential election and Trump is not a legitimate candidate,” Petkanas [said].
The New York Times:
Let’s Scrap the Presidential Debates
Nervous managers of the scheduled 2020 presidential debates are shuffling the logistics and locations to deal with the threat of the coronavirus. But here’s a better idea: Scrap them altogether. And not for health reasons.
The debates have never made sense as a test for presidential leadership. In fact, one could argue that they reward precisely the opposite of what we want in a president. When we were serious about the presidency, we wanted intelligence, thoughtfulness, knowledge, empathy and, to be sure, likability. It should also go without saying, dignity.
Yet the debates play an outsize role in campaigns and weigh more heavily on the verdict than their true value deserves.
This, by the way, isn’t written out of any concern that Donald Trump will prevail over Joe Biden in the debates; Mr. Biden has done just fine in a long string of such contests. The point is that “winning” a debate, however assessed, should be irrelevant, as are the debates themselves.
And former Clinton White House press secretary Joe Lockhart had this advice to Biden in a CNN op/ed:
Whatever you do, don’t debate Trump. Trump has now made more than 20,000 misleading or false statements according to the Washington Post. It’s a fool’s errand to enter the ring with someone who can’t follow the rules or the truth. Biden will undoubtedly take heat from Republicans and the media for skipping the debates. But it’s worth the risk as trying to debate someone incapable of telling the truth is an impossible contest to win.
There was no way Biden was ever going to debate Trump in the first place. This is the liberal media covering for him when he inevitably backs out. The narrative will be, it’s too dangerous to stage a debate plus Trump cheats because that sounds better than “Biden’s brain is a half-eaten plate of scrambled eggs.”
