http://www.domigood.com/2023/06/ny-times-wapo-do-cartwheels-to-spin.html
june 5 2023 NY Times, WaPo Do Cartwheels To Spin Biden’s Clumsy Tumble;
President Joe Biden fell down — again.
But the liberal media arrived quickly to try to lift him up. In a fawning profile, The New York Times described the 80-year-old president as “sharp,” “fit,” and having “striking stamina.” The Washington Post, meanwhile, said Biden’s tumble helps make him appear “more human” — then listed a bunch of other times politicians fell down.
The Times piece, which took four reporters to write — including the top two White House correspondents — was headlined, “Inside the Complicated Reality of Being America’s Oldest President.”
“The two Joe Bidens coexist in the same octogenarian president: Sharp and wise at critical moments, the product of decades of seasoning, able to rise to the occasion even in the dead of night to confront a dangerous world,” the article said. “Yet a little slower, a little softer, a little harder of hearing, a little more tentative in his walk, a little more prone to occasional lapses of memory in ways that feel familiar to anyone who has reached their ninth decade or has a parent who has.”
And even though Biden shuffles everywhere he goes — which prompted him to fall over a sandbag as he oversaw the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy last week — the Times said: “At the same time, he is trim and fit, exercises five days a week and does not drink.”
Meanwhile, The Washington Post put its own positive spin on Biden’s clumsy fall.
“President Biden’s onstage tumble at the U.S. Air Force Academy made headlines around the world. But he’s far from the only world leader or political candidate who has taken a highly visible fall,” wrote Adela Suliman, described as “a breaking-news reporter in The Washington Post’s London hub.”
Then Suliman listed a bunch of times other politicians fell, such as President Gerald Ford, Britain’s former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and, of course, the very famous Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
The Post even included a time that former President Donald Trump did NOT fall.
“Trump, as president, looked unsteady on his feet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2020. His slow, unsteady walk while descending a ramp led his critics to use the hashtag #TrumpIsNotWell,” Suliman wrote. “Trump tweeted that the ramp was ‘very long & steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery’ and insisted that the ‘last thing I was going to do is ‘fall’ for the Fake News to have fun with.'”
