by Ed Driscoll
THE JOURNOLIST IS HOPPING: A 1-Word Talking Point for Biden’s SOTU Has Gone Out and the Media’s RUNNING With It.
And how. This is the current result for typing those words into Google News:
At least the optics weren’t as bad as September 2022, when his handlers inexplicably decided to go full Riefenstahl:
UPDATE: “President Steroids Shouts His Way through the State of the Union,” Jim Geraghty writes. “Taken as a whole, Biden’s speech started to sound like Howard Beale’s monologue from Network. But keep in mind, the number of Americans who watched the whole speech, beginning to end, is considerably smaller than the number who will see brief excerpts on the television news, or YouTube, or other social media. By shouting through almost the entire speech, Biden maximized the odds that any clip or segment that went viral would have him looking fired up and impassioned rather than like the sleepy, whispery, mumbling octogenarian that Americans have soured on so thoroughly.”
MORE: “Media Falls In Love All Over Again With ‘Feisty,’ ‘Fiery’ Biden,” Ed Morrissey adds.