* Biden claim: “We’re sending back the vast majority of families who are coming” to the U.S. Overall, the press didn’t seem very interested in fact-checking the president on an array of whoppers, including: The reporter could have quoted Biden himself instead of quoting Schumer and Clyburn - but the goal was to shape a narrative and push the president even further to the left.
No longer would the Senate be the ‘saucer’ to cool the passions of the immediate majority.” “No longer would the Senate be that ‘different kind of legislative body’ that the Founders intended. Alcindor also failed to quote Biden’s own words back to him from a speech he called, at the time, one of the most important of his career: “It is not only a bad idea, it upsets the constitutional design and it disservices the country,” Biden argued in 2005 against eliminating the Senate filibuster. That’s outright activism in pressing the president on national television to move forward with abolishing the filibuster to advance an agenda she supports. “Why not back a filibuster rule that at least gets around issues, including voting rights or immigration? Jim Clyburn, someone, of course, who you know very well, has backed the idea of a filibuster rule when it comes to civil rights and voting rights.” Chuck Schumer’s calling it in an existential threat to democracy,” Alcindor, who plays an objective journalist on TV, said to the president after being the second reporter chosen by Biden’s handlers for him to call upon. “When it comes to the filibuster, immigration is a big issue, of course, related to the filibuster, but there’s also Republicans who are passing bill after bill trying to restrict voting rights. Take, for example, this activism disguised as a question from PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor on why the president needs to abolish the filibuster in the name of racial equality while combating evil Republicans in their efforts to prevent minorities from voting. The questions for the president were meek and vague, failing to extract any specific information about policies or solutions to the myriad problems faced by the administration. But the hour-plus event was a disgrace for some in the press and a dubious performance by the president. President Biden called on 10 reporters to answer 30-some questions during his long-awaited first formal press conference on Thursday.
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