Annie Linskey over at WaPo is at it again: "Biden, funerals and a bygone America"

[demmiblue]

Biden, who heads to Sen. Harry M. Reid’s memorial Saturday — his seventh as president — uses funerals to honor his friendships and make a point about bipartisanship.

Not everyone thinks it’s the best use of his time.

Link to tweet

You'll remember her from this shit post, when he was visiting Beau's grave:

[Mister Ed]

1. What? Attending a friend's funeral? Why isn't he golfing, like a real president?

[blogslug]

2. GOP Leaders Ignore Jan. 6 Anniversary, attend funeral for Johnny Isakson instead

Link to tweet

Manu Raju
@mkraju

No Republicans spoke on the Senate floor about Jan. 6 today. A number of them, including Mitch McConnell, were in Georgia for the late Sen. Johnny Isakson’s memorial services
2:34 PM · Jan 6, 2022

https://www.newsweek.com/january6-anniversary-memorial-gop-1665866

[bullwinkle428]

6. I tried to make a point of this the other day. I would be willing to bet my

401k that McChinless made a call to the Isakson family at some point, and said, "You know what would be a really great day to hold the memorial service for Johnny?"

It was a perfect excuse for all of those despicable cowards to beat it out of town, and not have to deal with any of those pesky questions from D.C. beat reporters about their seemingly INCREASING level of fealty to Mango Mussolini.

[lapucelle]

3. Not everyone thinks it is the best use of WaPo's resources to employ scolding opionists

to express idiosyncratic concern.

[Solly Mack]

4. Really? Next up it'll be - Biden left the west wing to go to the residential side of the WH while

night fell on D.C., leaving darkness in his wake and people unsure if government has gone to asleep.

I mean, how dare Biden for sleeping!

[blm]

8. ✔️

[2naSalit]

9. The nerve!

[bullwinkle428]

5. JFC. The guy is nearly 80. OF COURSE he is going to have many close

friends and associates within his age group that he had developed genuine relationships with over the course of decades, and feels the need to honor those relationships.

[GoCubsGo]

7. If he didn't go, she would bash him for that.

Go fuck yourself, Annie.

[2naSalit]

10. +1

[peggysue2]

11. Well, this is about as low as you get

Criticizing someone for attending a colleague/friend's funeral and/or honoring your own dead.

Suggestion? If you have nothing to write about consider writing nothing at all.

Not everyone thinks it's the best use of his time.

Many people say this. Sound familiar?

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Was that the reporter, or the Washington Post? A search turns up the WP's twitter account

Washington Post knows its fucked up - they've deleted the promotional tweet, which was at

Link to tweet

reading

"Biden, who heads to Sen. Harry M. Reid’s memorial Saturday — his seventh as president — uses funerals to honor his friendships and make a point about bipartisanship.

Not everyone thinks it’s the best use of his time."

The article itself is at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-funerals-reid-dole/2022/01/07/5dab092e-6fdf-11ec-aaa8-35d1865a6977_story.html

which doesn't have the "not everyone thinks it’s the best use of his time" - there's a paragraph or two that implies that, but on the whole it seems to be saying it's good that he goes.

[SharonClark]

13. Why is this post left standing when it is based

on a tweet that misrepresents the WP article?

Read the fucking article before jumping to conclusions based on a tweet that is wrong!