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
— 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
The Pale Scot
Caving in to crowd…
First
2liberal
^^^^^
week comment.
smike
@2liberal:
Threed?
ETA: Yee-Haw!
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
The press proved that they are who we thought they were.
piratedan
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.
HumboldtBlue
There is always a cat.
karen marie
@piratedan: Republicans make them feel smart.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
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.
Brachiator
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.
Damien
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
John Revolta
No questions about COVID, about the stimulus, or about HR 1……. like, the stuff he’s actually doing.
Pathetic.
Tony Jay
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?
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.
opiejeanne
@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.
p.a.
AAAAaaaaaaaannnnnnddddddddd… Fox News sets the agenda. Again. A confederacy of dunces.
opiejeanne
@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.
Tony Jay
@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!!!“
Tony Jay
@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.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@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.
JAFD
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.
PsiFighter37
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.
Geminid
@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.
JAFD
@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 !
Geminid
@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.
prostratedragon
Some might recall that I have a little list:
artem1s
@Martin:
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.
Ixnay
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/
Red Cedar
@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 . . .
dave319
@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.
O. Felix Culpa
@Ixnay: Thank you for the link!
JAFD
@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…)