WH COVID Task Force Holds First Briefing In Months As Country Hits Grim Milestone | Talking Points Memo

Apparently, the wrong one. There’s another one that Biden is running with the governors. That doesn’t merit coverage here.

I suppose TPM is also waiting for the election to be certified before they cover anything Biden does. Before anyone disagrees, there are five stories on the cover page with Trump’s name in them. The governors’ meeting with Biden doesn’t even warrant a mention.

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Mr. President Elect !

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All the reporters asking Biden questions (pointedly) address him as Mr. President Elect. :+1: :+1: :+1:

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Who is the woman in a blue dress in the corner of the screen on the Task Force briefing window?

I suspect the reporting class of workers is overjoyed at having someone sane and rational with a penchant for use of the proper English language and an aversion to deflection when asked a question.

Just maybe.

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You mean someone who doesn’t call them “nasty” or “stupid”? Absolutely!

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So why is it again that we can’t have live blog on the Biden presser?

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If this were Biden’s conference, I’d say sign language interpreter. But we’ve never seen that on anything from this group, so…

Well we are. Of our own making, but TPM’s approach is curious.

ETA: Harris looks utterly exhausted, and Biden clearly is. He is stumbling quite a bit. Handling himself, answering questions well, but at times it hasn’t been flowing easily.

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This should be gloriously horrifying…

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She’s going to have to pee by the time this gig starts.

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She’s definitely chugging down the water.

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The briefing has now moved into the “subordinates stand silently like dopes” phase.

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Oh hi Mike. Feel like going and fucking yourself? Feel free, bitch.

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2nd meeting this week? How about 2nd meeting in 5 months.

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Forty-one conference calls in a full year of a death-dealing pandemic. Yeah, I’m impressed.

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“At the President’s direction,” as always. Soon to be ex, right, Mike?

Cases and hospitalizations rising? Huh.

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Hearts and prayers including mine that you drop dead right at that podium you unctuous bigot.

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“Hearts and prayers” but not “equipment and support”.

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