{"id":1172069,"date":"2021-12-30T09:04:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172069"},"modified":"2021-12-30T09:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T14:04:44","slug":"politico-reveals-joe-bidens-favorite-tv-host-who-he-knows-wont-ask-tough-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-reveals-joe-bidens-favorite-tv-host-who-he-knows-wont-ask-tough-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico Reveals Joe Biden\u2019s Favorite TV Host, Who He Knows Won\u2019t Ask Tough Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitico-reveals-joe-bidens-favorite-tv-host-who-he-knows-wont-ask-tough-questions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Politico has revealed President Joe Biden\u2019s favorite television talk show host is MSNBC\u2019s Lawrence O\u2019Donnell, host of the network\u2019s 10 p.m. show \u201cThe Last Word\u201d \u2014 adding that the anchor won the president\u2019s favor, because he is less likely to ask probing or exacting questions than other hosts on the network.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has kept a lower media profile than any president in recent memory, continuing his successful strategy of avoiding press scrutiny that proved pivotal to winning the 2020 presidential election. This has included the left-leaning MSNBC, which features staples like \u201cMorning Joe\u201d and Rachel Maddow, and which cultivated a famously friendly relationship with the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne former campaign official said [President Biden\u2019s] absence from those programs was due to the fear that they could get hammered from the left,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/lawrence-odonnell-became-white-houses-093027773.html\">reported<\/a> Politico, which noted the president believed that other anchors at the network would furnish him with \u201cfriendlier treatment.\u201d When Joe Biden \u201cwanted to appear on MSNBC\u2019s more highly-rated prime-time programming, he opted for O\u2019Donnell, whom multiple former Biden campaign staffers said he favored because of their personal relationship and belief that their mutually-shared time in Congress made for a less potentially contentious interview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is, O\u2019Donnell will test the president\u2019s resolve less than anyone else in cable news. That comes as a relief to the frequently tongue-tied and gaffe-prone commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Politico that Biden had developed a nearly teacher-student relationship with O\u2019Donnell while the journalist served as a legislative aide to the late liberal lion Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY). \u201cLawrence is a student of the Senate and Biden is a professor,\u201d Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell\u2019s program has defended the Biden administration more sycophantically than virtually any program on the heavily pro-Biden network. While other programs compared Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-administration-this-is-not-saigon-cnn-its-worse-than-saigon\">evacuation of Kabul to the fall of Saigon<\/a>&nbsp;or described his policy as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/incompetence-and-failure-and-disorganization-msnbc-takes-aim-at-bidens-withdrawal-fiasco-by-ben-johnson\">incompetence, and failure, and disorganization, and lies<\/a>,\u201d O\u2019Donnell gave a full-throated defense to the president\u2019s actions. As this author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-times-the-legacy-media-defended-bidens-afghanistan-debacle\">reported<\/a> at The Daily Wire:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Harvard-educated O\u2019Donnell, who never served in the military, asserted that he knew more about geostrategic issues than military brass \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAn unnamed American military source in Afghanistan was quoted as saying what we are seeing now in the American evacuation of Afghanistan is worse, much worse, than what we saw in 1975 in the American evacuation from Vietnam after we lost the war there,\u201d he complained. \u201cThe problem with that kind of quote is that any unnamed military source in Afghanistan tonight is too young to remember the Vietnam War and was probably not born yet when we evacuated Vietnam in 1975, and so that source literally does not know what he or she is talking about.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell also defended Biden on the domestic front. Even as inflation mounted and stores limited their hours due to a lack of labor, O\u2019Donnell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lawrence\/status\/1428532291370995719\">gushed<\/a>: \u201cThe Biden economic recovery is so positive that economists are reaching for new words to describe it. Like \u2018wonderful.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Biden economic recovery is so positive that economists are reaching for new words to describe it. Like \u201cwonderful.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LbLlpBRcSa\">https:\/\/t.co\/LbLlpBRcSa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell (@Lawrence) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lawrence\/status\/1428532291370995719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden has rewarded O\u2019Donnell in kind: The only interview Biden has granted MSNBC during his presidency went to O\u2019Donnell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bunker-mentality-biden-has-done-six-times-less-press-interviews-than-trump-as-president\">on May 13<\/a>. Biden also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sqXyqUfDkgs\">appeared<\/a> on O\u2019Donnell\u2019s first show; Vice President Kamala Harris granted an interview for his 10th anniversary program.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell\u2019s close relationship with the White House has done little to improve his ratings. O\u2019Donnell had the luck of the Irish in competing against CNN\u2019s Don Lemon, whom he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/november-21-ratings-msnbc-is-losing-total-viewers-but-remains-a-top-5-cable-network\/494771\/\">beaten 78 straight months<\/a> as of November. Yet both finish well behind \u201cThe Ingraham Angle,\u201d hosted by Laura Ingraham, on Fox News, an outspoken critic of the president.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico has revealed President Joe Biden\u2019s favorite television talk show host is MSNBC\u2019s Lawrence O\u2019Donnell, host of the network\u2019s 10 p.m. show \u201cThe Last Word\u201d \u2014 adding that the anchor won the president\u2019s favor, because he is less likely to ask probing or exacting questions than other hosts on the network. Biden has kept a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}