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Late Night Biden Press Conference Open Thread: Some Reviews

by Anne Laurie|  March 26, 20212:41 am| 31 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, President Biden, Our Failed Media Experiment

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Asked whether he expects to face Trump in another general election campaign, Biden demurred.

“I have no idea,” Biden said. “I have no idea if there will be a Republican Party.”

After 64 days in office, President Biden held his first official news conference Thursday.

He began by naming a new target for COVID-19 vaccinations, but also touched on immigration at the southern border and voting rights. @Yamiche reports. pic.twitter.com/cKGajGVjUU

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) March 25, 2021


i'm mystified that people are mystified by this. he likes policy. he enjoys it. just because he tells stories about his great aunt's rice pudding or whatever doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy policy. https://t.co/IJmiFPhWtz

— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) March 25, 2021

This Biden press conference is slow and boring. In other words, another campaign promise kept.

— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) March 25, 2021

Social media rewards maximally polarizing partisan packaging. But normie voters, as opposed to Twitter users, prefer policies wrapped not in radical rhetoric, but commonsensical appeals that promise evolution rather than revolution. It's why Biden is a good progressive salesman. https://t.co/CZntJHrBdu

— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) March 25, 2021

The "Biden has dementia" tweet brigade seems to be struggling somewhat during this press conference, but kudos to the guy who just tweeted that he is clearly "to week" to hold the job.

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) March 25, 2021

This press conference is embarrassing, and its not because of Biden

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) March 25, 2021

cool, it's good to be prepared https://t.co/1cMiv9g4SK

— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) March 25, 2021

But plenty of hype for the 2024 PPV cage match the media so desperately needs. https://t.co/426kX1lX35

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) March 25, 2021

I don’t get the point of asking Biden whether his admin can be a “success” on certain terms. Why do we want his punditry about his own administration?

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 25, 2021

This. Plus, as it was noted at the time, it was WILD that Trump had already announced a re-election campaign and started raising money at this time four years ago https://t.co/EiKKu2xYRQ

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) March 25, 2021

?? https://t.co/Z3X3afHmDB

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 25, 2021

The WH Press Corps has been finely honed for horse race journalism. The Trump years accelerated this horribly, as he had no compunction about campaigning at taxpayers' expense. And now it's all they know to hunt for, because the Biden admin isn't full of gossipy backstabbers. https://t.co/buTNTJY74q

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) March 25, 2021

Yes,Yamiche…. clearly, it is ???? pic.twitter.com/enCnPLeqAf

— Henrietta Humpledink (@HenriettaHumpl1) March 25, 2021

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  1. 1.

    The Pale Scot

    March 26, 2021 at 2:48 am

    Caving in to crowd…

     

    First

  2. 2.

    2liberal

    March 26, 2021 at 2:53 am

    ^^^^^

    week comment.

  3. 3.

    smike

    March 26, 2021 at 2:57 am

    @2liberal:
    Threed?​
     
    ETA: Yee-Haw!

  4. 4.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    March 26, 2021 at 3:04 am

    The press proved that they are who we thought they were.

  5. 5.

    piratedan

    March 26, 2021 at 3:12 am

    I just find it frustrating is all… the 45 Administration treats them like shit.  Lies to them  during the Press Briefings, calls them enemies to the Republic and here we are, watching them parrot GOP talking points  and getting pissed off because of whatever narrative they wanted to follow isn’t being adhered to.  No idea on what is actual news, no desire to inform the public, and for the most part, a bunch of folks in their own insular bubble doing their best to get high on their own supply.

    We have a shitpotful of crap going on in this country and these asshats decide to pick up the crumbs and framing of the very same party that used them like a wet paper towel.  I guess this validation of CREAM is another tragic popping of an ideological belief I used to pack around with me.

  6. 6.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 26, 2021 at 3:25 am

    There is always a cat.

  7. 7.

    karen marie

    March 26, 2021 at 4:05 am

    @piratedan: Republicans make them feel smart.

  8. 8.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    March 26, 2021 at 4:15 am

    You remember when Obama held a presser after the Iran deal and the questions were so stoopid he stopped them and pulled out a list of hard questions they should be asking.

  9. 9.

    Brachiator

    March 26, 2021 at 4:24 am

    The media have shown themselves to be so worthless that I wouldn’t care if Biden decided to wait 164 days before his next press conference. And even that might be too soon.

  10. 10.

    Damien

    March 26, 2021 at 4:57 am

    Joe can go ahead and skip the next four years worth of this weak tea bullshit. I’d rather he just go do the job and let the results speak for themselves

  11. 11.

    John Revolta

    March 26, 2021 at 4:59 am

    No questions about COVID, about the stimulus, or about HR 1……. like, the stuff he’s actually doing.

    Pathetic.

  12. 12.

    Tony Jay

    March 26, 2021 at 5:13 am

    So, which Infotainment mouthpiece took time out from distantly circling the sun of basic journalistic standards like a hunk of Kuiper Belt detritus made up of equal parts smart and skull-bone to ask, nay, demand that Biden explain to the American people why his Administration hasn’t set out a plan to finish The Wall they voted for in 2016?

  13. 13.

    Martin

    March 26, 2021 at 5:27 am

    So, the idea was floated to get rid of the current WH Press Corps format, and instead have questions come from citizens with the reporters just reporting. I have no way how to implement something like that, but today really showed why something like that is needed.

  14. 14.

    opiejeanne

    March 26, 2021 at 5:30 am

    @Tony Jay:  He didn’t call on Doocey, so I don’t think anyone did.

    Yamiche Alcindor got scolded on Twitter by just about everyone for asking a dumb “gotcha” question. I told her I was disappointed, but she hasn’t gotten back to me yet.

  15. 15.

    p.a.

    March 26, 2021 at 5:32 am

    AAAAaaaaaaaannnnnnddddddddd… Fox News sets the agenda.  Again.  A confederacy of dunces.

  16. 16.

    opiejeanne

    March 26, 2021 at 5:38 am

    @Martin:  By the time one idiot asked if he was going to run in 2024 I was already pretty annoyed. Then the next idiot asked him if he the same question, right after he had already answered. It was already sliding downhill, but it went over a cliff at that point.

    I felt that he kept his cool pretty well, but the questions were really annoying after the first one or two.

  17. 17.

    Tony Jay

    March 26, 2021 at 5:45 am

    @opiejeanne:

    I’m sure that if you injected them with Veritaserum and put them on the couch, most of these gonks would tell you that, deep down, the Order of Crusading Journalists* feels such terrible guilt over the way its past members allowed The Man to get away with saying not much about anything at all that they’ve overcompensated with the aggressive, “Ah-Ha!” form of questioning that forms the basis of modern Infotainadrama**.

     

    *Not to be confused with its affiliated body, the Society of Sidekick Snitches and Savvy Sources.

    **Then they’d twitch, spasm, make the kind of face you usually see on a constipated beaver looking at a forest of unchewed logs, and scream out “But not me, sucker! I just wanna get paid and go to parties!!!“

  18. 18.

    Tony Jay

    March 26, 2021 at 5:50 am

    @Martin:

    When the former Leader of Her Majesties Opposition over here debuted the tactic of reading out questions sent in by members of the general public at Prime Minister’s Questions he was savagely mocked by the unified British Media.

    Then again, he could have announced a cure for cancer and the formula for eternal youth and they’d have savagely mocked him, useless, mercenary gobshites that they are.

  19. 19.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    March 26, 2021 at 6:08 am

    @Martin:Biden did a town hall on CNN earlier this year and that was the format. The questions were tough and relevant. No one asked about the filibuster, the color scheme of “the plane”, or space force.​

  20. 20.

    JAFD

    March 26, 2021 at 6:16 am

    Good morning, jackals !
    People were asked for their picks for ‘classical music that helped them get thru this past year’, and WQXR.org got enough suggestions to fill this weekend with “Music of Comfort and Hope”
    So, here be today’s playlist (times in EDT)

    Jeff Spurgeon – [email protected]
    6AM

    Franz Joseph Haydn
    String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 76/4, Hob. III:78, “Sunrise”: I. Allegro con spirito

    Ottorino Respighi
    Botticelli Triptych: Spring

    Gabriel Faure
    Requiem: In Paradisum

    Tomaso Albinoni
    Concerto for Two Trumpets in C, Op. 9/9

    Claude Debussy
    Petite Suite

    Robert Schumann
    Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47: III. Andante cantabile

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Overture

    7AM

    Maurice Ravel
    Le tombeau de Couperin: Prelude; Rigaudon

    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastoral”: II. Andante molto moto

    Felix Mendelssohn
    Elijah, Op. 70: He, watching over Israel, slumbers not, nor sleeps

    Isaias Savio
    Batucada

    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, BWV 1049

    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    The Nutcracker: Dance of the Reed Pipes

    Johannes Brahms
    Waltzes, Op. 39: No. 15 in A Major
    Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68: Un poco allegretto e grazioso

    Aaron Copland
    Fanfare for the Common Man

    8AM

    Grigoras Dinicu
    Hora staccato

    Max Bruch
    Scottish Fantasy: Finale: Allegro guerriero

    Anonymous
    All Glory, Laud and Honor

    George Phillip Telemann
    Overture-Suite in F Major, TWV 55:F11: Overture

    Antonin Dvorak
    Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World”: II. Largo

    Florence Price
    Dances in the Canebrakes

    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    2 Pieces for Piano 6 Hands: Romance

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Die Zauberflote, K. 620: Overture

    Johann Strauss, Sr.
    Radetsky March, Op. 228

    9AM

    Fanny Mendelssohn
    Overture

    Karl Jenkins
    The Armed Man: Benedictus

    Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major

    Frederic Chopin
    Nocturne No. 8 in D flat, Op. 27 No. 2

    Jose Pablo Moncayo
    Huapango

    Annie Bergen – [email protected]
    10AM

    Franz Schubert
    Rosamunde D. 797: Ballet Music II

    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Cantata BWV 208: Sheep May Safely Graze

    Edvard Grieg
    Holberg Suite, Op. 40

    Traditional
    Deep River

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

    Edward Elgar
    Enigma Variations, Op. 36: Nimrod

    11AM

    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

    Gabriel Faure
    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11

    Antonin Dvorak
    Suite in A Major “American”, Op. 98b (B190)

    Vladimir Martynov
    The Beatitudes

    12PM
    Midday Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488

    Aaron Copland
    Our Town: The Story of Grover’s Corners

    Eugene Dede
    Bees and Bumblebees, Op. 562

    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068

    1PM

    Franz Schubert
    Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, “The Great”: III. Scherzo

    Richard Wagner
    Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I

    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers

    Johannes Brahms
    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 83: IV. Allegro

    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    The Lark Ascending

    2PM
    New at Two
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 530

    Antonio Vivaldi
    Gloria in D major, RV 589: Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Felix Mendelssohn
    Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 107, “Reformation”

    George Frideric Handel
    Xerxes: Ombra mai fu

    Aram Khachaturian
    Masquerade: Waltz

    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastoral”: V. Allegretto

    Elliott Forrest – [email protected]
    3PM

    Franz Schubert
    Piano Quintet in A, Op. 114, D. 667, “The Trout”: IV. Theme & Variations. Andantino

    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Sacrae symphoniae (1597): Canzon septimi toni No. 2

    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27: III. Adagio

    Aaron Copland
    Appalachian Spring: Simple Gifts

    Richard Strauss
    Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Op. 59

    4PM
    The Score at Four
    R. S. Louiguy
    La vie en rose

    Cesar Franck
    Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major: IV. Allegretto poco mosso

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551, “Jupiter”

    Hubert Parry
    An English Suite

    5PM

    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Sanctus; Osanna in Excelsis

    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Egmont, Op. 84: Overture

    Max Richter
    On The Nature Of Daylight

    Franz Liszt
    Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major

    Richard Allison
    Goe from my Window

    Richard Wagner
    Parsifal: Hochsten Heiles Wunder

    John Williams
    Star Wars: Throne Room and Finale

    6PM

    Felix Mendelssohn
    Octet in E-flat, Op. 20

    Antonin Dvorak
    Rusalka: Song To The Moon

    Maurice Ravel
    Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No. 2

    Terrance McKnight – [email protected]
    7PM

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581: IV. Allegretto con Variazioni

    Salomone Rossi
    The Songs of Solomon: Adon Olam

    William Grant Still
    Wood Notes: Singing River

    Leonard Bernstein
    Candide: Suite

    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, BWV 147

    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    8PM

    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 “Choral”

    9PM

    Scott Joplin
    Solace: A Mexican Serenade

    Erik Satie
    Gymnopedie No. 1

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Scheherazade, Op. 35

    10PM

    Arvo Pärt
    Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror)

    Antonin Dvorak
    Czech Suite, Op. 39

    Frederic Chopin
    Berceuse in D-flat, Op. 57

    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Prelude

    Richard Wagner
    Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod (Mild und leise)

    11PM

    Exploring Music
    This week, host Bill McGlaughlin explores the vibrant palette of colors that composers can use to set and change moods – the system of major and minor scales.

    Hope you find interesting.

  21. 21.

    PsiFighter37

    March 26, 2021 at 6:54 am

    The press corps showed that they only looked good in comparison over the past 4 years because Trump, like he always does, sets the bar very low when it comes to demonstrating basic competence. Now that there’s a normal group of people in the WH again, they are showing themselves to be the unthoughtful stenographers they have always been.

  22. 22.

    Geminid

    March 26, 2021 at 7:22 am

    @JAFD: Even as long a musical list as this one must leave good music out. I would have nominated the music from Alexander Borodin’s  Prince Igor. This opera was unfinished when Borodin died suddenly in 1887(?). His colleagues Rimsky-Korsakoff and Glazunov  completed the work.

    Borodin was a groundbreaking organic chemist by profession, and wrote music in his spare time, or when he was ill and had to stay home. He was also interested in women’s education, and founded the Women’s School of Medicine in St. Petersburg.

  23. 23.

    JAFD

    March 26, 2021 at 7:28 am

    @Geminid: We shall see what’s on the playlists for Saturday and Sunday (being a mere contributer, I get the playlists in the dark-thirtys every morn)

    Given that they’re playing Beethoven’s Fifth and Ninth, and a movement of the Sixth (just finished), today, I wonder what’s to come…

    Listen in good health and good spirits !

  24. 24.

    Geminid

    March 26, 2021 at 7:36 am

    @JAFD: Well, I am 700 miles from Boston, so I’ll have to cheer this music from afar (I do listen to WBZ, the clear channel AM station, at night sometimes). But as we’ve gotten past last year’s election, I have found myself listening to more classical music, to good effect I think.

  25. 25.

    prostratedragon

    March 26, 2021 at 8:09 am

    Some might recall that I have a little list:

    “And God Created Great Whales,” Alan Hovahness

  26. 26.

    artem1s

    March 26, 2021 at 8:50 am

    @Martin:

    So, the idea was floated to get rid of the current WH Press Corps format, and instead have questions come from citizens with the reporters just reporting. I have no way how to implement something like that, but today really showed why something like that is needed.

    I think they should combine townhall style questions from the public with the WH Press Corp.  They could have the questioner online but it would be better to have them there in the room showing up the stenographers. Do that once every other month and the WH Press Corp just might straighten up. Then again they may refuse to cover it.  either way would be an improvement.

    Joe did what he was supposed to do.  Calm and reassure the public.  He also sent a lot of shade at the GQP too. The WH Press Corp is now his power tool.  And they are too stupid to know it.  You think they aren’t going to run up to Cruz or McConnell and ask them to comment on the quip about their party? That’s how Biden gets the conversation turned back to the voting rights bill, what’s going on in GA, and off the border crap.  His people are pretty good at messaging, IMO.

  27. 27.

    Ixnay

    March 26, 2021 at 8:58 am

    Here’s a concert I recently took part in, Recorded in Feb and released online last Saturday. It’s up till the end of April. In the before times I was their accompanist.  – (Mr) ixnay

    https://www.choralart.org/Events/hope-and-consolation/

  28. 28.

    Red Cedar

    March 26, 2021 at 9:14 am

    @JAFD: oh, thank you for this! It will definitely be my soundtrack for the weekend. Now if someone would just turn it into a Spotify playlist . . .

  29. 29.

    dave319

    March 26, 2021 at 9:14 am

    @The Pale Scot:

    Biden groks the lesson: the press are not his constituency. The MSM exist to be used when they can be effective, seldom, and safely ignored when they’re not, predominantly.  FDR drove the press–as did Reagan, or rather his handlers,–rather than be driven by it. The first national Democrat who kicks the wannabe influencers with their pro-conflict, oligarch-supported agenda back behind the rope, where they really consigned themselves. FTFNYT and all the rest of ’em.

  30. 30.

    O. Felix Culpa

    March 26, 2021 at 9:25 am

    @Ixnay: Thank you for the link!

  31. 31.

    JAFD

    March 26, 2021 at 11:01 am

    @Geminid: Do note that there be this thing called the internet, and those who point their browser to wqxr.org, may hear this a few seconds behind the radio listeners (and even those such as yours truly, within FM range, may listen over ye net if there be static on the airwaves…)

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