LesterHolt: Are you going to get back on the Horse? Biden: I have been on the horse! Where have you been?

[kpete]

LESTER HOLT: But if-- if the opportunity came up to do one between now and then? Is there-- is there a sense of wanting to get back on the horse?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I’m on the horse. Where have you been? I’ve done 22 major events, met thousands of people, overwhelming crowds. A lot’s happening. I’m on the horse. What I’m doing is going out and demonstrating to the American people that I have command of all my faculties, that I don’t need-- notes. I don’t need telepro-- I can go out and answer any questions at all. And I stood there when-- when NATO was in town. I stood there for an hour and answered questions.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/transcript-read-full-biden-interview-lester-holt-nbc-news-rcna162029

[Xavier Breath]

1. Yeah, had to chuckle at that one. n/t

[Ocelot II]

2. What a dumb question. Holt should be ashamed of himself.

Biden handled it very well. "I’m on the horse. Where have you been?"

[Rebl2]

11. Maybe Holt

needs to pay much more attention to all the campaign events that Biden has been attending. Maybe Holt is tired and not able to keep up with Biden. Maybe it’s time for Holt to retire.

[PatSeg]

22. Maybe

Meanwhile, all this crap is really getting old.

I watched MSNBC for a short time this afternoon and I heard several people explaining why they publicly questioned Joe's fitness to run for a second term and why they felt as journalists it was the right thing to do.

Apparently, they've gotten a lot of pushback and now they feel the need to justify what they've said and done. I wonder when and if they ever admit they were too hasty and had made a mistake.

I turned it off and haven't turned it back on. The republican convention is depressing enough, I don't need anymore dissing the president talk.

[2naSalit]

25. That's when I watched for...

A whole three minutes.

I turned it off. I don't need to hear all this weenie waving crap from a bunch of assholes and idiots having a shartfest orgy.

I'm having a nice evening with music instead.

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. Spending less time watching MSNBC.....

and getting more shit done. What's the point? I know what's at stake, do, say, voting Americans, 50 and under?

It's their future world that they are voting on.

[2naSalit]

30. True.

People need to see the reality, though I suspect many more do than we are led to think by our media. The media who have now exposed themselves as players and not on our side.

I think we'll be happily surprised when it all shakes out this fall.

[OAITW r.2.0]

33. Like your attitude and altitude.

[2naSalit]

37. At this rate...

By the time we get to November, they will have played their one-trick-pony trick so many times that even toddlers will be on to them. They will have pissed off 90% pf the planet by then, I can't imagine very many choosing to vote for them.

What we have to be watching for is the cheating and the many ways they go about it.

The media are something I will look to in very small helpings and mostly for other than political news.

DU can keep me entertained in other areas and I think I have a bunch of bookmarked things I need to look at so this is a good opportunity for that too. I will be watching the Dem event next month, this one and current events make it impossible to watch while sane.

[OAITW r.2.0]

40. DU keeps me sane TS.

That's the truth.

[2naSalit]

43. That's the truth!

[PatSeg]

29. Between covering the convention like it was 2008 or

2012 and MSNBC's people still talking about Biden's "fitness" to run, I couldn't take anymore. It was so surreal, just like all those enthusiastic people at the convention - do they know what kind of person they are cheering on?

In 2016 I suppose they had an excuse, but now everyone knows who he is. Still they act like it is just one big party. My mental and physical health couldn't take anymore. I have a feeling I'll be watching very little cable news between now and November. Probably spend a lot of time here!

[2naSalit]

34. Yup.

I went to my garden and yanked up weeds for a while, I have my garden on the east side of a building so it goes in the shade during the hottest part if the day and into the night. With the horrendous heat we have these days, full sun means something quite different. Pulling weeds or cutting down a forest of overgrowth is therapeutic.

I have other things I could be doing, I'll probably get to them sooner now!

[PatSeg]

36. Oh pulling weeds is very symbolic

You can just imagine they're all republican politicians! The analogies are endless.

There always other things we could be doing, but as I get older, I find so many of them really aren't all that important and the world doesn't end if I don't get to them.

[geardaddy]

53. LOL @ "Shartfest Orgy"

What a great band name that would be!

[2naSalit]

60. For a grunge band, I suppose.

[geardaddy]

61. Yes!

[Rebl2]

47. I sometimes wonder

if their bosses have told them to bash Joe Biden. It’s sickening. I haven’t watched the idiots at msnbc in a couple years now—occasionally have seen Lawrence who is the only sane person there anymore. I don’t count Rachel, because she is only on once a week.

[PatSeg]

52. And even Rachel seems to be a bit wobbly

when it comes to Biden. Right now Lawrence is the only one I will go out of my way to watch. I understand Mika is very supportive, but I don't watch Morning Joe these days.

I think a bunch of them never really cared for Biden all that much, even though they love his policies. Joe has never been a media darling. He's had issues with journalists throughout his long career. He has gotten as far as he has in spite of them, not because of them.

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

51. Lester Holt is smug and it showed...

...he thinks he's the boss in that room. He's a doggone media guy. That's all. Why we give him and them such deference I'll never know.

More on air - live - push back to the inane media questions.

Democratic leadership seems to be getting it a little lately.

You don't have to accept the premises of their inane questions Dems!

You have no friends or allies. Grasp it. Business is against you because you dare support labor and admit the police need "tweaking".

It's about power and let them know we have power too and will use it.

Good job President Biden. Thanks to the poster for bringing this to the DU community.

This stuff really pisses me off because I don't grasp why Dems are not attacking more, and it seems they finally may be attacking the Deadbeat Felon and corporate media.

Attack their supposed strengths, attack them when they're up, attack them when they're down and if they're drowning, throw them a phucking anvil.

[Rebl2]

55. I agree

he’s a smug company man. I liked him many years ago, but I really can’t stand him the last five or so years.

[paleotn]

65. I'm on the horse..."you dumb mother fucker"

That last part is the first thing that would cross my mind if I were in Biden's shoes at that moment.

[MacKasey]

3. Give Holt Hell, Joe!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. President Biden was great in his interview

[Sneederbunk]

5. What's.your deal Lester.

[skypilot]

12. He's a registered Republican.

If that has changed, someone please correct me.

[Susan Calvin]

13. A minority or female Republican

Should be an oxymoron. It certainly indicates some cognitive issue. I used to kind of like Lester Holt. Oh well.

[Raven123]

6. Gee, I wonder why Biden hasn't given a lot of interviews

It’s not like he doesn’t better use for his time than answering meaningless questions.

[PatSeg]

23. And Joe has been facing this sort of interview

for decades now. The mainstream media has rarely been kind to Joe. He has good reason to avoid such interviews.

[Captain Zero]

28. Why should he? They ignore that he answers

The question that was asked,

and that Trump is still worried about low flow showerheads and dishwashers, and blabbering about that.

[agingdem]

7. Joe is not so subtly letting Lester Holt

know Holt and his fellow media gasbags can pretty much shove it..

[ecstatic]

8. I loved Biden's push back

hopefully one day these reporters will start asking questions that really matter.

[Skittles]

9. I am curious why he is being interviewed by Holt

it's pretty evident Holt has become a HACK

[summer_in_TX]

17. Biden was criticized by media and nervous Dems for not doing unscripted interviews.

What better way to counter that than to do one with another of the Big Three networks? And maybe pull eyeballs away from the RNC?

Plus, since he didn't air ads today, this gets some of his messaging out.

[Skittles]

18. when will Trump do the same?

he has been speaking gibberish for as long as I can remember

[OAITW r.2.0]

31. Thinking weird things going on at MSNBC,

Were threats made to take Joe and Mica off the air? Maybe...how would we know?

[kansasobama]

10. Biden had a great interview

Did not let Holt get away with shit

[Susan Calvin]

15. I'm so glad to hear that.

I haven't watched it yet. What wirh the hurricane I forgot about it. I saw it as I passed by the TV and started recording 10 minutes in.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. Holt hasn't improved since attacking Hillary.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

16. The media just refuses to let this go.

Sad.

[PatrickforB]

19. Stellar job in this interview - huge win for Biden!

He's our guy. I'm going to be making calls to my Congress critters and tell them just that.

[oasis]

20. FLH

[nowforever]

21. We need a Lawrence O'Donnell interview

Please

[Captain Zero]

32. We need to point out T doesn't have the balls

To be interviewed by Lawrence ODonnell.

[markodochartaigh]

39. I'd like to see Lawrence O'Donnell and

JD Vance

[Chuck_T]

24. What more does Biden have to do

Is he going to be plagued by that first debate for the entire campaign? Let's see some scrutiny on Trump.

[catchnrelease]

44. It's like that stupid yell by Howard Dean

They beat that dead horse until Dean was gone. Never pay attention to anything of substance, or lack of it in some peoples case.

[Turbineguy]

26. Try and keep up, Lester!

[NoMoreRepugs]

35. Holt, despite his vocabulary and diction is a frickin' hack at best.

[LudwigPastorius]

38. Hey, Lester...

Put the bass down and pay attention to what's going on.

[sillywabbit]

41. I am so annoyed at MSNBC

that I have stopped watching everyone except Lawrence O'Donnell. I even wrote them a letter telling them that. I hope they keep losing viewers until they get their act together.

[Demsrule86]

50. O'Donnell is the only one I watch too.

[peggysue2]

42. LOL!!

Didn't catch the interview but that header made me laugh out loud. I'm thinking . . .

Dark Brandon is back.

Give 'em hell, Joe!

[Uncle Joe]

45. President Biden is still riding his horse through the desert

Thanks for the thread kpete.

[B.See]

46. hA! Gotta love Joe's answer: Where have you been?

Trotting about on an ass, no doubt.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

48. You tell him Joe!!

Us Dems have to stop being nice.

[Emile]

49. Lester Holt sucked!

[BigDemVoter]

54. It's even worse than I realized. . . .

That ignorant motherfucker was actually trying to blame "violent rhetoric" on Biden. Fuck him 1000 times.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

56. 'I was shocked': NBC's Lester Holt buried by colleagues over Biden interview

I watched the entire interview and was also very irked at Holt and the way this interview was conducted. I had heard earlier that President Biden was stuttering and did not handle himself well in this interview. I was very pleased with President Biden's performance in this unfair interview. There was no stuttering and President Biden answered all of the questions and then pointed out Holt's double standard.

I agree with Morning Joe on the way that Holt conducted this interview

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/biden-interview/

Moments before "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarbrough took his bosses to task for pulling his show on the Monday following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life, the MSNBC host criticized his colleague Lester Holt over his interview with President Joe Biden.

On Monday night, as the Republican National Convention kicked into high gear, NBC released the sitdown interview between Holt and Biden and, on Tuesday morning, Scarborough shared a clip and expressed his displeasure at what transpired.

Speaking with fellow MSNBC host Al Sharpton, Scarborough stated he needed to address Holt's obsession with getting Biden to admit he has engaged in violent rhetoric and needs to tone down his criticism of the former president.

"We just need to talk about that line of questioning from NBC's Lester Holt," the MSNBC host stated after the clip ended. "It was an important question to ask, about what President Biden said in a private fundraiser to donors. It's a question I would have asked. I think any of us would have asked that question, but to ask that question without any context, about the politically violent rhetoric that Republicans have been engaged in for close to a decade now."

"We could talk about Nancy Pelosi, we could talk about the assassinations of Joint Chiefs, the hangings of Mike Pence. We could go on and on and on. We could talk about it on both sides. Again, a good question to ask about what he said in a private fundraiser — a good question to ask, I would have asked the same question. But to ask that question absent of any context seems to me to be — you talk about a phony moral relativism."

"It was screaming throughout that part of the interview, and I must say, I was shocked," he added.

[camartinwv]

57. Lester Holt didn't know that he was the horse Joe Biden was riding. Really kinda pathetic.

[SupportSanity]

58. The answer my friend is blowing in the wind. How many horses must a man get on ...

before they call him a man......

[Evolve Dammit]

59. Lester needs smacked up side his head. What a demeaning interview. Figures he's a repuke. n/t

[dai13sy]

62. Cannot believe Holt asked that dumb ass question!

I'm RIDIN' WITH BIDEN folks. All the idiots who think he's toast are soooo WRONG. He is going to beat that worthless liar and all the losers like Holt can go to Russia

[twodogsbarking]

63. Lester, and the horse you rode in on.

[iluvtennis]

64. The President Joe Biden I love. Holt that's malarkey. n/t

[red dog 1]

66. Is it just me, or does Lester Holt look a lot like Lester Nessman, the clueless, incompetent news director at WKRP?