The "gaffes" are a longstanding LAZY journalistic meme. The meme goes back decades. (Reply #16)

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Hekate (67,041 posts)

16. The "gaffes" are a longstanding LAZY journalistic meme. The meme goes back decades.

Oooh, Joe's a gaffe machine, how can he run in (pick a year, any year). Okay?

It's on a par with "But her emails." Actually it is lower than that.

Here's a litmus test for you: if Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell are chewing it over with their panels of talking heads With Great Concern, just discount it entirely.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]	trueblue2007	Sep 2019	OP
But, but, his gaffes!	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2019	#1
they ALL have gaffes don't they !!!! media is desperate	trueblue2007	Sep 2019	#3
Joe looks awesome - love him!	Skya Rhen	Sep 2019	#2
me too!!! He makes me feel safe.	samnsara	Sep 2019	#5
Joe's in way better shape than Donny	IronLionZion	Sep 2019	#4
What some call gaffes, other see as evidence of cognitive decline	Fiendish Thingy	Sep 2019	#6
So let's see how the campaign plays out.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2019	#7
Those who think gaffes signal early dementia are simply wrong. Scoffing and	emmaverybo	Sep 2019	#8
Biden's inability to express a complete thought/sentence, his forgetfulness, confabulation	Fiendish Thingy	Sep 2019	#9
Exaggerating. Saw him on climate change. Saw him on Colbert. Heard the speeches. Read the	emmaverybo	Sep 2019	#10
My sister is 66 years old and has suffered with . . .	peggysue2	Sep 2019	#11
As you well know, dementia progresses at different rates for different folks	Fiendish Thingy	Sep 2019	#13
This armchair diagnosis is becoming offensive. I had dementia in my family. I had to study up.	emmaverybo	Sep 2019	#15
Your deep deep concern has been duly noted. May I add that it is appalling. I am concerned...	Hekate	Sep 2019	#17
Having watched dementia	True Blue American	Sep 2019	#54
Trump has some sort of serious cognitive decline going on	peggysue2	Sep 2019	#62
If Biden is the nominee, that answer he gave will be on a TV commercial.	athena	Sep 2019	#12
I don't have to ask myself. I know right now what Republicans are saying about our candidates.	emmaverybo	Sep 2019	#14
So let's let the Republicans decide	treestar	Sep 2019	#22
And if someone else is the nominee the commercials will be just as bad or worse! Stop fooling	Thekaspervote	Sep 2019	#28
This!	Thekaspervote	Sep 2019	#27
The "gaffes" are a longstanding LAZY journalistic meme. The meme goes back decades.	Hekate	Sep 2019	#16
How about if several AA journalists (not just Joy Reid) are calling for Biden to end his run?	Fiendish Thingy	Sep 2019	#24
Name some of your sources for the "outpouring" of calls to end his campaign	Thekaspervote	Sep 2019	#29
The most visible has been the Rolling Stone article by Jamil Smith	Fiendish Thingy	Sep 2019	#35
Yes, if fact DU adm took the rollingstone piece down as inflammatory	Thekaspervote	Sep 2019	#41
Sure, here's some more:	Fiendish Thingy	Sep 2019	#45
Yes, I know that all threads have not been removed	Thekaspervote	Sep 2019	#51
If he still polls well with black voters	treestar	Sep 2019	#65
Exactly.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2019	#32
How do they explain his gaffes all along then?	treestar	Sep 2019	#21
You seem to be confusing criticism of "gaffes" with evidence of cognitive decline	Fiendish Thingy	Sep 2019	#25
That's your opinion.. you are entitled to it	Thekaspervote	Sep 2019	#30
I watched the Colbert show	treestar	Sep 2019	#61
Joe didn't say "the details don't matter" to Colbert	Fiendish Thingy	Sep 2019	#63
Don't remember it like that	treestar	Sep 2019	#64
Donald Trump is a racist pig !	stonecutter357	Sep 2019	#48
Yes he does!	Tarheel_Dem	Sep 2019	#18
Joe has had a lot of work done,	crazytown	Sep 2019	#19
WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ????? ...... Joe has had a lot of work done	trueblue2007	Sep 2019	#20
surgery	crazytown	Sep 2019	#23
Now that is low!! Haven't got anything of substance so you go with that?!	Thekaspervote	Sep 2019	#31
Perfectly appropriate for this OP	crazytown	Sep 2019	#34
So, anything positive about your own candidate?	Thekaspervote	Sep 2019	#42
OK. She has the energy of someone in their fifties.	crazytown	Sep 2019	#43
You started with some of it not being for the better	treestar	Sep 2019	#66
No, I ended with some of it not being for the better.	crazytown	Sep 2019	#67
Have a link for that ?	obnoxiousdrunk	Sep 2019	#38
New low for your posts...seriously. I don't see folks posting such things about Warren...only	Demsrule86	Sep 2019	#44
What's the evidence of that?	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2019	#33
This is an OP about Joes looks ... "younger than both Sanders and Rump"	crazytown	Sep 2019	#36
What's the evidence he's had "work done"?	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2019	#37
Look at something from 2007/08	crazytown	Sep 2019	#39
Oh come on. The hair plugs are beyond obvious (have been for 20 years). As are the veneers.	Hassin Bin Sober	Sep 2019	#47
Your point regarding the bigger picture of defeating the squatter in the WH?	Thekaspervote	Sep 2019	#53
And if he did, so what?	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2019	#57
I don't care what he did. But you were asking for proof.	Hassin Bin Sober	Sep 2019	#60
lol Elizabeth Warren was an R ......	stonecutter357	Sep 2019	#49
Post an OP about ageism.	crazytown	Sep 2019	#56
Bernie is aging very well.	Joe941	Sep 2019	#52
He's always looked old, so that helps.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2019	#59
Yes. It's pretty obvious to me and I've heard several other folks -- all of whom	KPN	Sep 2019	#58
Bernie hasn't aged much	Bradical79	Sep 2019	#26
Let me preface this with the fact that I am old....	The empressof all	Sep 2019	#40
Joe is in great shape	Gothmog	Sep 2019	#46
K&R	stonecutter357	Sep 2019	#50
looks define a person.	Kurt V.	Sep 2019	#55
I do not care how any of them look	jcgoldie	Sep 2019	#68

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