Say It Ain't So, Joe: CBS Reporter Draws Ire Of Biden For Asking Substantive Question
By: JONATHAN TURLEY
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We have been discussing the embarrassing failure of the media to ask President-elect Joe Biden any difficult questions throughout the campaign and creating a type of protective journalistic cocoon around him. That pattern has continued after the election with pre-selected reporters asking laughingly soft ball questions to Biden while continuing a virtual blackout on such stories as the Hunter Biden influence peddling controversy. Then something bizarre happened yesterday. A reporter actually asked Biden a real question. CBS News reporter Bo Erickson asked Biden about whether he would support the CDC rather than the teacher's union on closing schools. Biden's response was a personal attack on the reporter. This is simply not done and will not be tolerated. After all, think of the chaos: the entire press corps would be expected to ask questions and Biden would be expected to answer them.
Bo Erickson previously drew a rebuke from Biden when he asked for a response to the Hunter Biden scandal. He simply asked 'Mr. Biden, what is your response to the New York Post story about your son, sir?' Biden's response was again a personal attack: "I know you'd ask it. I have no response, it's another smear campaign, right up your alley, those are the questions you always ask."
Biden also blew up at a question that referred by the scandal by a NBC reporter and at a Fox reporter who asked about his son. Those are the only known cases where the cone of silence was violated around Biden . . . until yesterday.
Erickson asked Biden a question on the way out of the room where Biden was meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: "Mr Biden, the COVID task force said it's safe for children to be back in class."
That would be an important and reasonable question. The CDC is not recommending the closure of schools since studies show an exceptionally low risk for such children. There are serious costs to such closures for both children and their parents ranging from the loss of educational advancement, depression, employment problems, and other issues.
It is the type of question that you would expect the president-elect to answer when he is holding forth on his plan for dealing with Covid-19. Biden however again attacked Erickson personally for breaking the unwritten rule against substantive questions: "Why are you the only guy that always shouts out questions?"
That question sums up the situation perfectly. We should all want to know why Erickson is the only guy (other than Peter Doocy) who is asking such questions. Most of the media was openly in the bag for Biden during the campaign. The hope however was that, once he was elected, the media would rediscover a modicum of independence and integrity in their approach to Biden. That will not happen so long as Biden can accurately ask why the Erickson is "the only guy" asking questions.
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A tough question? Joe's not up to that.
Shame on Bo. Bo, you must fawn over Joe! Love Joe! Bo, watch the other activists in the room, do what they do!
Trump and his supporters are off topic
More on my mind is that - Erickson is a reporter for CBS. CBS has been busy trying to used lobbed in questions that can be hit over the fence. Why the change?
I can't speculate on the reason, but look at what has happened - CBS has already distinguished themselves from the dishonest partisan msm. A single reporter was able to do it.
It looks more like a statement to me Vic.
Bow down to lord Biden scum and bend the knee before his lordship uncle Joe or be banned by MBFC from the mainstream media!
"Most of the media was openly in the bag for Biden during the campaign. The hope however was that, once he was elected, the media would rediscover a modicum of independence and integrity in their approach to Biden." Why would anyone think they would act any differently than they did with Obama?
Correct. We can compare how the two past controversial presidents were treated and it is fair to say that the contrast is stark to say the least.
oh, my!
a slow curve thrown at Biden instead of a softball question, what WAS that reporter thinking?
A slow cure would be a first step.
And about freakin time!
That drips with hypocrisy.
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bunch of hippo critters shedding alligator clips torn from tear ducts
Read 1.0 Dulay - Trump or his supporters are off-topic. Did ya miss that?
Plus - not even close to a discussion from you - "Well - na na na naa na".
My comment was about Turley's hypocrisy, NOT Trump.
You want to have a discussion? Let's start with why you have a issue with me pointing out the hypocrisy 1st?
Let's say "Argumentative, argumentative" - don't see any "discussion" coming from you Dulay.
BTW - hope you and yours have a super Thanksgiving
Nor I you and no answers either. You keep trying to insist that you want to see 'discussion' but fail to offer anything but bitching about ME.
It won't be anything like we have ever had in my memory or 'super' in any fucking way.
I love how libs like to ridicule conservatives when we point out their blatant hypocrisy over the past 4 years, but all of a sudden , they want to discuss hypocrisy.
Really is cray cray thinking
Are you claiming that a conservative pointed out hypocrisy here bugsy? Where?
Or was that BS just stuck in your craw and it finally broke loose?
I talk about hypocrisy here all the time.
Since it's 'thinking' you fabricated, that's on you.
Mine will be real! Celebrating the open defiance of my governor just like when I stayed out past curfew last night on purpose just because I could and I know our law enforcement won’t get involved.
No cries, I notice, of how Biden’s reactions are an assault on the First Amendment, and undermining our democracy.
I wonder how long until CBS fires this mouthy reporter.
You're making a meme out of nothing. After a four hour meeting of Democratic leaders that had no scheduled Q & A session, a reported insists on asking a question anyway and Joe reacts the way any normal person would. Effectively saying we're tired, how about asking your question in an appropriate forum.
What exactly constitutes ‘the cdc or teacher unions’ as a serious question?
I might see this on a 6th grade public health unit test. But how is that otherwise a serious question? How? What MAKES it that?
Asked to explain from what intellectual sources their respective philosophies are nourished, what could any of today's political intellectual pygmies proffer?
Questioned on the confluence of tendencies driving any of our current crises, what could any of them say?
You want substantive questions?
Ask our imperious [so-called] 'leaders' to articulate the geo-political center of gravity around which they propose to unite currently warring US factions so we may be spared a descent into the abyss of civil war. What answer could any current, high profile professional politicians give?
In fact have any of these pompous, political leprechauns ever even pondered such a thing?
I can understand you wouldn’t ask this. And I get that internet fora may not be where one expects to find such a question posed. But we just staggered through a national 'election' campaign! How can this NOT be asked in a national election campaign? How?
Given current, extraordinary circumstances, how satisfactory do YOU think that elections can be which circumvent critical threats to national survival to focus instead on spectacle and [too often] fictitious narrative? In fact, I wonder why people should believe anything they're told. If they ever lapse into full blown nihilism, the supporters of our great, lordly kakistocracy will have no one but themselves to blame.
Other than people voting, can you offer any compelling reasons for which this glorious ‘election’ itself ought NOT be be recognized and rejected as a fraud? That's a rhetorical question. I'm not expecting replies.
As I see it, this election resolved nothing of significance.