{"id":1950552,"date":"2023-06-18T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T22:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/axios-tries-to-cover-for-bidens-weird-words-ends-up-making-situation-worse-for-him\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T22:44:11","slug":"axios-tries-to-cover-for-bidens-weird-words-ends-up-making-situation-worse-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/axios-tries-to-cover-for-bidens-weird-words-ends-up-making-situation-worse-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Axios&#8217; attempt to defend Biden&#8217;s &#8216;peculiar language&#8217; backfires, exacerbating the situation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div 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style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Excusing Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Weird Words&#8221;: A Dangerous Dismissal<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason that \u201cOh, come on, it\u2019s just who he is\u201d has never, ever worked as an argument in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, that largely appears to be the line of excuse-making that Axios employed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/06\/18\/biden-god-save-the-queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">startling puff piece<\/a> that largely tried to excuse the incumbent president\u2019s countless gaffes as little more than an insignificant behavioral tic.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, Axios actually may have done more harm than good for Biden, as they plainly laid out: There is no explanation or excuse for Biden\u2019s alphabet soup spelling and grammar.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, simply titled \u201cBiden\u2019s weird words,\u201d came out Sunday and largely appeared to be some sort of response to Biden\u2019s inexplicable \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-helped-off-stage-puzzling-remark-regarding-deceased-queen-england\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">God save the queen<\/a>\u201d remark while speaking about gun violence in Connecticut on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Axios reporter Alex Thompson characterized that nonsensical phrase away as just something that happens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden often uses old-timey expressions that confound even his own staff,\u201d Thompson wrote. \u201cThat happened again Friday when he ended a speech on gun violence with \u2018God save the queen, man.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson noted that Olivia Dalton, the White House\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-says-shed-be-happy-to-take-on-kayleigh-mcenany-on-fox-news\/\" title=\"Jen Psaki Says She\u2019d Be \u2018Happy\u2019 To Take On Kayleigh McEnany On Fox News\u00a0\">principal deputy press secretary<\/a>, couldn\u2019t even explain why Biden used a phrase of British patriotism (for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-attacking-queen-elizabeth-ii-want-erase-britains-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deceased monarch<\/a>, no less) while halfway across the world from England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden\u2019s quirky aphorisms are sometimes weaponized by Republicans to insinuate the 80-year-old president is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-refers-to-vice-president-harris-as-president-harris-during-speech\/\" title=\"WATCH: Biden Refers To Vice President Harris As \u2018President Harris\u2019 During Speech\">mental decline<\/a>,\u201d Thompson noted. \u201cBut Biden has been using unique phrases for years \u2014 but even some of his aides aren\u2019t exactly sure what he means by them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again\u2026 that\u2019s not an excuse, as the blistering comments under the accompanying Axios tweet demonstrated:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Biden often uses old-timey expressions that confound even his own staff.<\/p>\n<p>That happened again Friday when he ended a speech on gun violence with \u201cGod save the queen, man.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vWw9ROVvlY\">https:\/\/t.co\/vWw9ROVvlY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Axios (@axios) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axios\/status\/1670430773717999618?\">June 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dismissing signs of mental decline as little more than a built-in personality trait is an incredibly dangerous disservice to everyone \u2014 Americans, international allies, heck, the president himself.<\/p>\n<p>There really isn\u2019t any way to justify or write off Biden\u2019s countless gaffes as little more than \u201cwhoopsies,\u201d but that didn\u2019t stop Axios from trying.<\/p>\n<p>But even in its \u201cdefense\u201d of the president, the piece did largely feel like the old adage of \u201cdamning with faint praise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring this year\u2019s State of the Union, he told Republican lawmakers, \u2018Lots of luck in your senior year,&#8217;\u201d Thompson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The best answer Axios could muster: \u201cSome Biden allies believe that\u2019s his way of saying, \u2018Good luck with that.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Axios also brought up the infamous 2020 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/joe-biden-calls-young-woman-lying-dog-faced-pony-soldier-campaign-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lying, dog-faced pony soldier<\/a>\u201d incident, where he bizarrely called a female student that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s claimed in the past that line was from John Wayne, but film aficionados haven\u2019t been able to find the movie (there is a 1952 film called \u2018Pony Soldier\u2019 but Wayne\u2019s not in it),\u201d Thompson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>That line might be the most egregious one written by Thompson in this piece because it acknowledges that the president is either lying or making things up in his head (neither of which is a good sign) \u2014 and yet the writer dismisses it as much ado about nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBottom line: There are legitimate questions about Biden\u2019s age and stamina as he runs for a second term \u2014 but his off-beat proverbs are just Biden being Biden,\u201d Thompson concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Look, can this writer admit that there is just a smidgen of mean-spiritedness when some conservatives deride the incumbent president and his follies?<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>But there are also a number of conservatives and Republicans who are genuinely concerned about a man who may or may not be cognitively impaired having access to the nuclear football \u2014 and they would feel the same if it were a conservative, Republican president in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/axios-tries-to-cover-for-bidens-weird-words-ends-up-making-situation-worse-for-him\/\" title=\"Axios' attempt to defend Biden's 'peculiar language' backfires, exacerbating the situation.\">office showing similar decline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s issues, however overblown they may or may not be, should\u00a0<strong>not\u00a0<\/strong>be dismissed so handily as nothing more than a conservative attack point.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything in politics is rooted in partisan hackery.<\/p>\n<p>Much still is, however, as this Axios article demonstrates.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/axios-tries-cover-bidens-weird-words-ends-making-situation-worse\/\">Axios Tries to Cover for Biden&#8217;s &#8216;Weird Words,&#8217; Ends Up Making Situation Worse for Him<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios attempted to excuse the incumbent president&#8217;s numerous gaffes in a puff piece, using the ineffective argument of &#8220;Oh, come on, it&#8217;s just who he is.&#8221; However, this reasoning has never held up in a court of law, highlighting the flawed nature of their 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