Biden races — no, shuffles —against time

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Those people doing most to confirm the damaging truth about President Joe Biden’s latest enfeebled onstage “freeze” are the ones trying hardest to suppress it. This is known as the Streisand effect, named for actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempted suppression of a photograph of her Malibu home in 2003 backfired by drawing wide attention to it.

As you would expect, therefore, the politically myopic Hollywood diva was among those who made sure millions of extra voters watched a 40-second video of Biden standing stolidly and perhaps confused in front of a $30 million fundraiser audience in Los Angeles last weekend before his old boss, former President Barack Obama, pulled him out of his stupor and led him gently away.

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