A report that President Joe Biden is a nasty foul-mouthed bully to aides may be an unflattering portrayal of the elderly Democrat but it’s much better than the truth that he’s a borderline “vegetable” and that it may have been a “strategic leak” intended to create a false image of a fiery and engaged leader.
That’s the opinion of conservative commentator Michael Knowles who laid out his theory on Thursday’s edition of “The Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM where he suggested that to Biden’s handlers, it may be better to shatter the public image of him being a kindly grandfatherly figure instead of having the American people believe that he’s just babbling old grandpa who belongs in a nursing home and not the White House.”
Noting that the story would get media coverage because it was reported by Axios, Knowles said, “I don’t think this was just a damaging leak for the Biden campaign to Axios, that now we’re all seriously debating, I think this was a strategic leak by the Biden campaign because, while in a way it doesn’t make him look great it makes him look a little nastier than what we might have thought, at a deeper level, it makes people kind of like him.”
(Video: YouTube/The Megyn Kelly Show)
“When Joy Behar and Kennedy jokingly say ‘oh it turns me on, I’m more attracted to him now’ I think that was the point of the leak,” he said. “Because while this is somewhat damaging, the point of this kind of a leak is to counteract the more damaging narrative, which is that Joe Biden is a vegetable.”
He was referring to the Fox News host and the top harpy on “The View” both being impressed by Biden’s vulgar mistreatment of subordinates, with Behar gushing that she was “turned on” by the Axios story earlier this week.
“So how do you counter the narrative that we all see with our own eyes, which is that Joe Biden doesn’t know what end is up, he mumbles his words, he kind of walks around like a zombie, ” Knowles continued, “Well, the way you counter that is you say ‘no, this guy he’s really vigorous. He’s yelling all the time. He’s saying, you know, g-d it, I want to know the answers to this, and how do you not know this effing answer to this question?”
“And so beneath even that, there’s examples that you see in Axios, is the premise that Joe Biden, he knows the real answers to these questions,” he said. “He knows the details better than his staff members, and he expects higher standards so that they can keep up with him.”
“I think it’s B.S. I think it was out there so people don’t think that the man is being held up by marionette strings,” Knowles concluded.
According to Axios, Biden has a volcanic temper that often erupts when he’s speaking to underlings whom he berates in F-bomb-laden tirades that include, “God dammit, how the f**k don’t you know this?!,” “Don’t f**king bullsh*t me!” and “Get the f**k out of here!”
It should go without saying, but the “Biden yells at his aides” story is obviously a strategic leak to counter the more politically damaging narrative that he’s a vegetable. https://t.co/vowb7PkfR8
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) July 10, 2023
The Axios report, which cites “current and former Biden aides who have witnessed and been on the receiving end of such outbursts,” states that “Some Biden aides think the president would be better off occasionally displaying his temper in public as a way to assuage voter concerns that the 80-year-old president is disengaged and too old for the office.”
“Some administration officials, many of whom went to elite schools, struggle with Biden’s demand to ditch wonky, acronym-filled language and brief him as if they were talking to a close family member who isn’t in the D.C. bubble,” the report states, giving credence to Knowles’ theory. “Biden’s defenders acknowledge he can be tough. But they also say he can be more generous and compassionate than many powerful politicians and can make them feel like family. That’s partly why so many aides have worked with Biden for decades, and go in and out of his orbit, they say.”
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