President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address may have pleased his most diehard supporters and fueled media gaslighting that the geriatric Democrat has been revitalized, but the numbers tell a different story.
In his first major speech since the damning report by special counsel Robert Hur who essentially found him to be too senile to face a jury, the 81-year-old ranted and raged at presumptive GOP nominee Donald J. Trump in a nasty extended diatribe that some have dubbed his “hate of the union” address.
With media outlets uniformly using the term “fiery” to describe Biden’s speech as if they were state-run outlets, not even the Beltway elite’s preeminent propaganda organ could spin away the record-setting nature of this year’s SOTU.
BREAKING: Per CNN polling, Joe Biden gave the WORST RECEIVED State of the Union address in 25 years.
“The 65 percent who had a positive view of the speech was actually lower than any such speech CNN has polled in the past quarter-century — the previous low being Donald Trump’s… pic.twitter.com/ZwJwMgS4Tr
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 9, 2024
“It’s not so clear the American public saw the home run that they did,” wrote the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake, citing the numbers of a post-speech CNN poll that showed “65 percent of viewers offered a positive review of Biden’s speech. Viewers also shifted 17 points toward believing the country is headed in the right direction — from 45 percent before the speech to 62 percent afterward.”
But the 65 percent number isn’t something for Biden and his allies to hang their hats on with CNN viewers being partisan in nature and even then, the 65 percent who loved the president’s dark rant “was actually lower than any such speech CNN has polled in the past quarter-century — the previous low being Donald Trump’s 2018 address (70 percent).”
WHOOPS!
The WaPo’s admission that CNN’s numbers were spin drew a reaction from X users.
“The hype” was their hype. They are part of their own story.
— BabbleBee (@ThankElon) March 9, 2024
They were exuberant because Joe didn’t fall down or lost his train of thought.
— Andrea E (@AAC0519) March 9, 2024
What’s surprising is that WashPo would actually run that article. Must be some interesting Slack channel chats going on right now.
— stevemur (@stevemur) March 9, 2024
That 65% lied just as much as he did last night.
— Southern FFA Family (@FFAFamily) March 9, 2024
All Biden had to do was not stroke out on live tv. He hit that bar. Everyone was on pins and needles wondering if he could get through the speech.
— Social distancing champ (@LadyGriz) March 9, 2024
How much of that 65% is state sponsored media hosts?
— SDH (@wysassygirl) March 9, 2024
“This was a tour de force by Joe Biden,” —Joe Scarborough
— Brian Doherty (@BDOH) March 9, 2024
65% of 525 CNN picked people.
— STPool (@susantowerpool) March 9, 2024
Hate Of The Union speech
— Yo⚖️ (@TheSpinDr7) March 9, 2024
Biden setting all kinds of new record lows. Surprised CNN even released the results of this poll. Maybe there is hope for them becoming a legitimate news network again
— Scott Pranger (@scottmpranger) March 9, 2024
But the media has told me how awesome and successful it was https://t.co/vtSgSfXb59
— Sunny (@sunnyright) March 9, 2024
“It’s early, and it’s worth keeping an eye out for other data — not just direct reviews of the speech, but evidence of any actual shifts in the electorate that come in the days and weeks afterward,” Blake wrote in a bit of turd polishing. “The basic reviews of the speech might not account for how people’s notions might have fundamentally changed on issues such as Biden’s acuity. Those will be the numbers we should really watch.”
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