If President Trump called the Mona Lisa an ugly piece of fake art, the media would spend 48 hours saying he “falsely claimed a famous painting was bad.” But former Vice President Joe Biden says some of the most ridiculous things, and TV journalists do little more than thoughtfully nod along.

He did it over and over at the final presidential debate Thursday, and cable news anchors either shrugged or repeated it as if the asinine things he said were perfectly reasonable.