“Joe Biden just fell asleep in the middle of his meeting with victims of the Maui fires”
— Text posted on social media with an edited video featuring President Biden, Aug. 22, 2023
Attacks on President Biden’s age and overall mental and physical fitness are far from new.
This latest example — a moment clipped from the live coverage of the president’s Monday visit to Lahaina, Hawaii, by Grey Television-owned Hawaii News Now — shows how the internet can be used to amplify, escalate and manipulate a moving image.
An isolated 32-second-long clip, posted and reposted by several accounts, seemingly showed an octogenarian president, head tilted down, struggling to stay awake at an event as community leaders expressed the pain felt by Lahaina residents reeling from deadly wildfires.
It was a viral moment, thanks to shares from notables like Fox News host Sean Hannity , Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tenn.) and others, who framed the clip as yet another example of Biden demonstrating that an old and tired president was unable to lead the country through moments of crisis, as he was once again caught nodding off by roving news cameras.
Though misleading and lacking context, these posts didn’t make use of video editing tricks; instead they relied on selective isolation.
The outright manipulation comes in the form of an even shorter version, cut down to 12 seconds. The edited video featured in a post by Matt Wallace , a conservative influencer with more than a million followers, shares the same markings found in the longer viral version and sourced to a Hawaii News Now broadcast . However, it slices and dices through the moment — cutting away from Biden right at the moment he nods his head while gazing down, clearly awake. This catchier edit of “sleepy” Biden gained more traction, racking up over 12 million views. That reach was extended with shares by the right-wing freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.)
The moment in full, of course, paints a different picture. It shows a somber Biden, reacting when directly addressed, tilting his head down and nodding as the speaker continues to illustrate the challenges facing a devastated Lahaina community. At the 17:49 mark of this higher-quality C-SPAN feed of the same camera angle, viewers can see fuller detail — and get a better look at Biden’s gaze, which remains clear and wide-eyed.
This is a classic case of manipulated video . Anyone who shared it earns Four Pinocchios.
Naw, he did not fall asleep. Instead he just told a boldface lie to the victims about the kitchen fire in his house thinking it would ingratiate him to the real victims. Strange how the liberal left MSM won't key in on that!
no slimy depth the far right won't stoop to in their efforts to smear Biden.
yeah, I heard they were going to pay a foreign agent money to create a document with a bunch of made up rumors to justify getting the feds to spy on the Biden and campaign and label Biden a traitor.
Got news for you, the far left has it's own share of the slimy depths. Just on the opposite side of the swamp that's all. That's the nature of the beast that is politics.
Biden bows his head at about the 25 second mark. 12 seconds later he nods his head in response to something the speaker is saying. 11 seconds after that he lifts his head wide awake.
The poor guy cannot sit and contemplate the tragedy in Maui without having lying vultures go after him.
Like he was contemplating how much longer it was going to be until he could get some ice cream by checking his watch during the offloading of military caskets after his botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
Leftists will make any excuse for Brandon.
The guy is old, feeble, and a cognitive mess- but he has that all important D behind his name. So leftists will literally support him to the grave no matter what.
Seriously, there is no reason to make stuff up. Biden is a senile old trainwreck, just report the facts, they are enough to sway the non-retard voters to make better choices.
Manipulated video portrays a ‘sleepy’ Biden at Maui wildfire event
“Joe Biden just fell asleep in the middle of his meeting with victims of the Maui fires”
— Text posted on social media with an edited video featuring President Biden, Aug. 22, 2023
Attacks on President Biden’s age and overall mental and physical fitness are far from new.
This latest example — a moment clipped from the live coverage of the president’s Monday visit to Lahaina, Hawaii, by Grey Television-owned Hawaii News Now — shows how the internet can be used to amplify, escalate and manipulate a moving image.
An isolated 32-second-long clip, posted and reposted by several accounts, seemingly showed an octogenarian president, head tilted down, struggling to stay awake at an event as community leaders expressed the pain felt by Lahaina residents reeling from deadly wildfires.
It was a viral moment, thanks to shares from notables like Fox News host Sean Hannity , Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tenn.) and others, who framed the clip as yet another example of Biden demonstrating that an old and tired president was unable to lead the country through moments of crisis, as he was once again caught nodding off by roving news cameras.
Though misleading and lacking context, these posts didn’t make use of video editing tricks; instead they relied on selective isolation.
The outright manipulation comes in the form of an even shorter version, cut down to 12 seconds. The edited video featured in a post by Matt Wallace , a conservative influencer with more than a million followers, shares the same markings found in the longer viral version and sourced to a Hawaii News Now broadcast . However, it slices and dices through the moment — cutting away from Biden right at the moment he nods his head while gazing down, clearly awake. This catchier edit of “sleepy” Biden gained more traction, racking up over 12 million views. That reach was extended with shares by the right-wing freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.)
The moment in full, of course, paints a different picture. It shows a somber Biden, reacting when directly addressed, tilting his head down and nodding as the speaker continues to illustrate the challenges facing a devastated Lahaina community. At the 17:49 mark of this higher-quality C-SPAN feed of the same camera angle, viewers can see fuller detail — and get a better look at Biden’s gaze, which remains clear and wide-eyed.
This is a classic case of manipulated video . Anyone who shared it earns Four Pinocchios.
You'd think they'd learn. They did this 3 - 4 years ago during the 1st campaign. It failed then, yet they are unable to come up with anything new.
So, second verse same as the first.
Naw, he did not fall asleep. Instead he just told a boldface lie to the victims about the kitchen fire in his house thinking it would ingratiate him to the real victims. Strange how the liberal left MSM won't key in on that!
Asleep or awake...what's the difference?
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Somehow we dont have to make things up about the leading Republican candidate. We just have to observe him.
I guess when they are comatose everyone looks sleepy.
There is no slimy depth the far right won't stoop to in their efforts to smear Biden.
Ahhhh yes. Reminiscent of 2015-2020..........on the left side of the aisle against another PotUS.
no slimy depth the far right won't stoop to in their efforts to smear Biden.
yeah, I heard they were going to pay a foreign agent money to create a document with a bunch of made up rumors to justify getting the feds to spy on the Biden and campaign and label Biden a traitor.
Can you believe anyone could sink that low?
Nothing slimy about simply displaying the truth about your "dear leader".
Got news for you, the far left has it's own share of the slimy depths. Just on the opposite side of the swamp that's all. That's the nature of the beast that is politics.
Biden's doing a good enough job of smearing himself. He almost doesn't need anybody else to help him.
Biden bows his head at about the 25 second mark. 12 seconds later he nods his head in response to something the speaker is saying. 11 seconds after that he lifts his head wide awake.
The poor guy cannot sit and contemplate the tragedy in Maui without having lying vultures go after him.
He had the speech noted on the inside of his eyelids and was just warming up..............
What's left of his mind is probably more concerned about getting out of there and having an ice cream cone.
Like he was contemplating how much longer it was going to be until he could get some ice cream by checking his watch during the offloading of military caskets after his botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
Leftists will make any excuse for Brandon.
The guy is old, feeble, and a cognitive mess- but he has that all important D behind his name. So leftists will literally support him to the grave no matter what.
The more you guys lie about Biden the more the average American will have his back.
Yep you are correct. That's what we saw in 2016...........
The coast line might have had him thinking about his house at Rehoboth Beach and how a wood framed house might not have been the best choice.
Seriously, there is no reason to make stuff up. Biden is a senile old trainwreck, just report the facts, they are enough to sway the non-retard voters to make better choices.