Progressives are desperately working to defend President Joe Biden — and they’re failing.
Left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tried to protect the president’s reputation following Thursday’s release of special counsel Robert Hur’s report on his mishandling of classified documents.
Hur’s report said the 81-year-old Biden likely would present himself to a jury as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” making a conviction unlikely.
Maddow’s rejoinder: “He rides a bike.”
That’s not only desperate, it’s stupid.
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Why? If a presidential candidate were required to be able to safely ride a bike, Biden might be disqualified from running this year.
Maddow and the other panelists pushed back against Biden’s critics, accusing them of “ageism” — leave it to progressives to resort to name-calling in the hopes it will distract people from reality.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes said “the fact of his age” isn’t something that can be rebutted, making it a “useful political tool” for Biden’s opponents.
“If someone says, ‘You’re too far left,’ you can tack to the center, but there’s nothing — the man is 80 years