{"id":58293,"date":"2020-08-15T16:33:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58293"},"modified":"2020-08-15T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:33:38","slug":"58293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58293","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/08\/biden-staff-herds-compliant-press-away-from-candidate.php\">BIDEN STAFF HERDS COMPLIANT PRESS AWAY FROM CANDIDATE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, the Biden campaign held a ceremony during which Joe Biden and Kamala Harris signed documents to get their names on November ballots as the Democratic ticket. \u201cWe\u2019re going to make this official, official,\u201d Biden told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/14\/biden-kamala-harris-sign-documents-for-democratic-nomination\/\">the New York Post<\/a>, \u201cmedia availability\u201d at the event was \u201ctightly controlled.\u201d Naturally, the assembled reporters wanted to ask questions of the candidates. They didn\u2019t come just to watch Biden and Harris silently put pen to paper.<\/p>\n<p>But the press was only able to get in one question, which was directed to Harris. When reporters started to ask more questions, they were told to leave. \u201cCome on guys, let\u2019s go,\u201d a female staffer said several times. \u201cTightly controlled\u201d is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2020\/08\/14\/watch-reporters-again-herded-away-from-biden-as-questions-are-asked-even-kamala-appears-tense\/\">here<\/a>, at Red State.<\/p>\n<p>What I find striking was the media\u2019s compliance. When the staffer instructed reporters to leave, the lions of the press shuffled off. No one asked any more questions. At the command of a Biden staffer, the press exited stage right without a murmur.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to the way reporters behave with President Trump. When he leaves press events, reporters shout questions at him until he disappears. To be fair, reporters also did this to past presidents, though not as stridently.<\/p>\n<p>In Biden\u2019s case, however, reporters\u2019 manners are impeccable. They understand that Biden struggles with questions he\u2019s not expecting and could blurt out almost anything. Thus, he needs to be shielded. Reporters behave accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>We can expect reporters to continue this practice throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIDEN STAFF HERDS COMPLIANT PRESS AWAY FROM CANDIDATE Today, the Biden campaign held a ceremony during which Joe Biden and Kamala Harris signed documents to get their names on November ballots as the Democratic ticket. \u201cWe\u2019re going to make this official, official,\u201d Biden told reporters. According to\u00a0the New York Post, \u201cmedia availability\u201d at the event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58294,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58293\/revisions\/58294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}