This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a line from a Biden supporter that, frankly, both sides roll out when they are failing miserably: It’s not the president’s policies that are a disaster but how his team is communicating them that are.
Maria Teresa Kumar, president of Voto Latino, rolled out that old line while arguing for President Joe Biden on Sunday’s Meet the Press.
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“With Biden, his challenge is that he hasn’t been able to communicate to the American people what he’s done,” she said, citing student loan payoffs and his focus on manufacturing.
She went on to suggest that Biden is a “policy president,” and that is a harder sell than former President Donald Trump’s communications about “undermining elections,” though he arrived in Washington with a long list of policy initiatives that he acted on including reducing regulations, limiting illegal immigration, and establishing a basis for Middle East peace.
Kumar on Sunday’s Meet the Press:
“With Biden, his challenge is that he hasn’t been able to communicate to the American people what he’s done. I mean, we can say that the difference between Donald Trump and the difference within Biden is Biden is a policy president. So, he’s going to make fundamental changes for a generation. And we’re talking about student loan relief. We’re talking about bringing back manufacturing, and the list goes on.
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“But the difference with Trump is that his consequence is not policy. It’s his legacy of undermining elections. And it’s not just him, it’s not him, but he actually has a cadre of individuals right now seeking office that are election deniers. And that legacy is far more dangerous for a modern-day president than any other thing because it believes in undermining our democracy.”
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “More media delusion. Blame the messengers for the public’s failure to appreciate President Biden for the great things he’s supposedly achieved. Biden has nearly the entire news media on his side, doing all they can to boost him and his policies, so if his approval is still underwater, the messenger isn’t the problem. It’s the message.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
