Yet the media keeps doing it. At what point do pundits start to realize that this totally cuts their own credibility off at the knees?
Ok, so they want to give the Democratic primary a level of suspense it doesn't warrant but is beating the drum of an obvious fake story line the way for serious press to conduct themselves?
Whatever interest there ever way in a Biden run is quickly dissipating. Most NH Dems don't want him to run.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/poll-nh-214885
As David Axelrod said on Face the Nation. the basis for Biden's canddiacy has kind of faded as HRC has shown that she will be alright after all.
As Jonathan Bernstein notes:
"The vice president has already "run" for the 2016 Democratic nomination. He lost relatively early in the invisible primary -- the period that starts soon after the last presidential election when prospective candidates start appealing to the people most involved in party politics."
"By early this year, it was already clear that Hillary Clinton was the consensus choice within the party. We can't know for sure what has been in Biden's mind for the past two-plus months. But the reality is that he has been running to be Clinton's understudy -- the candidate most Democratic party actors support, should something happen that makes her impossible to nominate."
"He had to know a debate wasn't going to change any of that. Even if Clinton had done badly -- and given her skill level, no one anticipated that -- debates are nothing like boxing matches (forgive my metaphor on Tuesday night). There are no knockouts."
"So the idea that Biden was waiting to see how Clinton did in the debate before he decided is probably nonsense. He could have guessed she would get good reviews, especially compared with the others on stage."
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-14/joe-biden-wins-race-to-be-clinton-s-understudy-after-debate
But the media can't let this meme go. It is still discussed seriously on news shows. Meanwhile Biden's numbers are falling now anyway as people
Ok, so they want to give the Democratic primary a level of suspense it doesn't warrant but is beating the drum of an obvious fake story line the way for serious press to conduct themselves?
Whatever interest there ever way in a Biden run is quickly dissipating. Most NH Dems don't want him to run.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/poll-nh-214885
As David Axelrod said on Face the Nation. the basis for Biden's canddiacy has kind of faded as HRC has shown that she will be alright after all.
As Jonathan Bernstein notes:
"The vice president has already "run" for the 2016 Democratic nomination. He lost relatively early in the invisible primary -- the period that starts soon after the last presidential election when prospective candidates start appealing to the people most involved in party politics."
"By early this year, it was already clear that Hillary Clinton was the consensus choice within the party. We can't know for sure what has been in Biden's mind for the past two-plus months. But the reality is that he has been running to be Clinton's understudy -- the candidate most Democratic party actors support, should something happen that makes her impossible to nominate."
"He had to know a debate wasn't going to change any of that. Even if Clinton had done badly -- and given her skill level, no one anticipated that -- debates are nothing like boxing matches (forgive my metaphor on Tuesday night). There are no knockouts."
"So the idea that Biden was waiting to see how Clinton did in the debate before he decided is probably nonsense. He could have guessed she would get good reviews, especially compared with the others on stage."
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-14/joe-biden-wins-race-to-be-clinton-s-understudy-after-debate
But the media can't let this meme go. It is still discussed seriously on news shows. Meanwhile Biden's numbers are falling now anyway as people
1. Are starting to reasonably surmise he's not running.
2. More confident of her abilities again and feel no need for him to run.
"At what point do pundits start to realize that this totally cuts their own credibility off at the knees?"
ReplyDeleteDo people still pay Bill Kristol for his opinion? Lol
By chance I checked Kristol's Twitter feed.... sure enough, he's living in an alternate universe where it sounds like Biden is actually running! Lol!!
Delete(Nothing about Trump shitting on Bush's lost WMDs and his Iraq War disaster though)