Notwithstanding the media’s efforts to sell Biden as an avuncular type, he’s a mean man and always has been. What’s been occurring with increasing frequency is Biden’s snapping at reporters who ask questions he can’t or won’t answer. It happened again on Monday, when he snapped at NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell for asking about the Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ vaccine mandate. And typically for a leftist, O’Donnell forgave him the slight. Trump, who was never so blatantly rude, wouldn’t have gotten the same pass.
Biden was a famously nasty man before he entered the Oval House. During his first run at the White House at the end of the 1980s, he started his longstanding pattern of insulting voters who dared challenge him. He’s made racist comments; insulted Blacks to their face; and, in the ultimate nastiness, allegedly assaulted Tara Reade in 1993, an incident confirmed by the contemporaneous evidence of her own mother’s phone call to the Larry King Show. And if you want nasty, there’s all his pawing of little girls and grown women.
But if the reporters are leftists, they’ll forgive anything a Democrat president does. Back in 1998, Nina Burleigh expressed the general attitude reporters had to Democrat presidents when she said of Bill Clinton, “I’d be happy to give him [oral ‘sex’] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal.” The media are not honest brokers. If they like your politics, you can do no wrong; if they disagree with your politics, they will destroy you.
Biden’s rudeness started in November, after the election, when he insulted a reporter for doing his job and asking questions:
Anger is a hallmark symptom of progressive dementia.