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During Thursday night’s drive-in town hall with Demcoratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, a number of ridiculous claims were made not just by Biden but also by the CNN “reporters” and “analysts” who were covering what went down – and covering for Biden in the process, as per the norm.
At one point during the event, Atlantic writer and noted Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer James Fallows made the following personal observation about Biden’s performance:
I would like the “BIden has dementia” people to watch him on CNN right now, *and* compare him with what they heard from Trump today or anytime recently.
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) September 18, 2020
This inspired CNN’s resident “fact-checker” Daniel Dale to morph into a spokesman of sorts for the Biden campaign, amplifying Fallows’ opinion by actually praising Biden for “implicitly fact checking Trump by…uttering many consecutive coherent sentences” (yes, he really said that):
Biden is implicitly fact checking Trump by…uttering many consecutive coherent sentences, which Trump has repeatedly said Biden cannot do. https://t.co/LzS2Bx7ioq
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2020
Dale, in turn, was fact-checked by others who pointed out that this was not the “own” against Trump and “win” for Biden he seemed to think it was:
Dude I know you were trying to make a point here, and you did. I just don’t think it’s the one you intended to make. pic.twitter.com/hsTyCemZrx
— 1st Responder PTSD Advocate 🇺🇸🏴🇺🇸 (@OldSmokeEater) September 18, 2020
Welp, you've completely changed my mind. Complete sentences? I love me some complete sentences. LOL, ridiculous.
— RexGoesForth (@RexGoesFourth) September 18, 2020
One Biden supporter was not impressed with Dale setting the bar so low:
Ok, but please let’s not have uttering coherent sentences be the new bar for electability. Vote for Biden but let’s not patronize the whole process and the intellect of voters.
— Sidney Coles, PhD (@SidneyColes8) September 18, 2020
On the other hand, was Biden really sounding all that coherent? No:
Extremely coherent! https://t.co/kQwK4OlC9D
— Abigail Marone (@abigailmarone) September 18, 2020
This Twitter user won the night:
The fact that you find Biden uttering coherent sentences so important that you have to tweet about it proves Trump’s point completely. https://t.co/ayiihsb70p
— David Jones (@badpolitic) September 18, 2020
“See? I can utter complete sentences! And I’m standing up! What other politician can do those things?”
— David Jones (@badpolitic) September 18, 2020
Dale later tried to defend his network not fact-checking Biden and asking him softball questions during the town hall, but that didn’t go over too well, either.
Memo to CNN: Having the ability to string a few words together to form a “coherent sentence” a few times during a town hall does not a president make. #ProTip
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