The fact that they had to invent a term to defend Biden’s mental status should tell the clowns on ‘The View’ that there’s a problem but nope. Instead of expressing concern that their president spent air time searching the crowd for a dead congressional representative, the gals on ‘The View’ think you’re the problem.
Jackie Walorski, Republican of Indiana, died last month in a horrible car accident. The Biden administration sent their condolences yet, her death still slipped Biden’s diminished mind. Bi
“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?” Biden said as he thanked lawmakers who had sponsored legislation on the hunger issue.
Whoopi Goldberg snapped, “come on! You can’t go after him for not giving aid to Florida or not tackling the infrastructure and he’s giving aid to Ukraine. So you can’t go after him for that, but you can go after him for forgetting that someone has passed! I mean, she passed last month not, like, a hundred years ago! Okay?”
Co-host Haines called it ‘mommy brain’ saying, “We call it different things at different stages in our lives. But I don’t know a human that hasn’t sat in a room and has gone to say something and then been like, “oh my gosh.”
Joyless Baher is the one who declared it ‘weaponed gaffes’ to critique the flubs. While Sunny Hosting accused the country of being agests:
” think what it really shows is that this country is so ageist. This country has a problem with age. You know, you go to other countries and our elders are revered. They’re revered because of the knowledge that they have acquired and this is a man who has worked in government his entire life. This is a man who probably had a relationship with this woman.”
Just so you know, Hostin thinks Biden suffers from a version of ‘mommy brain’ but adds that we call it different names. “We call it different things at different stages in our lives,” Hostin blindly blurted out.— Yeah, Sunny, it’s called dementia. It’s not an ‘agest issue’. The disease doesn’t care how old you are. I’ve known people as young as 50 suffer from it.
It’s also not an attack for people to be concerned that the leader of the free world sometimes forgets his own name…
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yesterday, the White House addressed a gaffe from President Biden at a conference on hunger, nutrition, and health where he asked for a representative who died in a car accident last month. Take a look.
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I want to thank all of you here. [Transition] Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? I think she must not be here.
[Transition]
CECILIA VEGA: The President appeared to look around the room for an audience member, a member of Congress who passed away last month. He seemed to indicate she might be in the room.
[Transition]
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Of course, she was on his mind. She was of top of mind for the President.
[Transition]
VEGA: He said, “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? She must not be here.”
JEAN-PIERRE: I totally understand. I just explained she was on top of mind.
[Transition]
MATT VISER: The confusing part is why, if she and the family is top of mind, does the President think that she’s living and in the room?
JEAN-PIERRE: I don’t find that confusing. I mean, I think many people can speak to when you have someone top of mind, they are top of mind.
[Cuts back to live]
GOLDBERG: You know, my gosh come on! You can’t go after him for not giving aid to Florida or not tackling the infrastructure and he’s giving aid to Ukraine. So you can’t go after him for that, but you can go after him for forgetting that someone has passed! I mean, she passed last month not, like, a hundred years ago! Okay?
SARA HAINES: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Because we dealt with that as well where we said, that person who died a hundred years ago did a great job.
JOY BEHAR: Well, remember Trump thought Frederick Douglass was still alive.
GOLDBERG: That’s what I’m talking about.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Oh, that’s true!
GOLDBERG: That’s what I’m talking about.
HAINES: Well, we all have – like when you’re thinking about when you grow up you use the term “brain fart.” Which I hate the word “fart.” But like you say “I had a brain fart.”
GOLDBERG: A brain what?
HAINES: Come on, Whoopi!
GOLDBERG: I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
HAINES: But then also you also have, like, they say, “Oh, I have mommy brain.” Like, we have different words. We call it different things at different stages in our lives. But I don’t know a human that hasn’t sat in a room and has gone to say something and then been like, “oh my gosh.” And I think that was very apparent what this gaffe was.
I think her explanation made it worse though because in that moment, I probably would have just said, “Okay, guys. He had a moment. Who in this room hasn’t?” And then just move on. The fact she kept kind of repeating the same words —
BEHAR: Well, she couldn’t really move on so easily since the right-wing has weaponized his gaffes!
HAINES: But those are not right-wing reporters. In the past.
BEHAR: Yeah. I mean, they have weaponized the gaffes, They’ve said that he’s senile.
(…)
11:05:23 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think what it really shows is that this country is so ageist. This country has a problem with age. You know, you go to other countries and our elders are revered. They’re revered because of the knowledge that they have acquired and this is a man who has worked in government his entire life. This is a man who probably had a relationship with this woman.
And yes, she probably was top of mind. I was thinking about my grandmother the other day and, like, almost reached out to call her on the phone. She’s been — she passed away five years ago. It could happen to anyone.
BEHAR: Right.
HOSTIN: And I think they need to stop weaponizing his age. I hate that about this country.
[Applause]
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: That’s a good point.
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11:06:51 a.m. Eastern
FARAH GRIFFIN: I know this table and myself do not want to see Donald Trump as president again. I would pose the question: do you think Joe Biden is the strongest candidate to beat Donald Trump in 2024?
BEHAR: He beat him before.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: If this is any indication, I do.
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