The Media Fellating Thread
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I wonder if Disney will require kids to watch with an adult in the room.
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I wonder if Disney will require kids to watch with an adult in the room.
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Note, this is not in the "opinion" or "style" section.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/14/joe-biden-jill-pda-468831
Historians and relationship experts agree: The first couple’s romantic gestures aren’t just genuine — they’re restorative.
“I think that the Bidens know that the affection they show for each other is serving as a healing agent,” said Dr. Douglas Brinkley, the Rice University professor and presidential historian.
“New presidents and first ladies have to be empathetic,” he explained, and the Bidens’ PDA is just one part of the first couple’s effort to fulfill that institutional imperative.
“When we watch [first couples] together, we don’t want to feel a tension in their marriage,” Brinkley said. “We don’t want to feel that they enjoy being separated from each other. One wants to believe that there’s some harmony and deep respect there.”
Casual displays of affection weren’t always so commonplace for first couples. According to Dr. Barbara Perry, director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, it was the sexual revolution of the 1960s that redefined standards for how all Americans — including commanders in chief — could interact with their spouses in public.
Since Bill and Hillary Clinton, the presidency has seen a series of first couples — George W. and Laura Bush, Barack and Michelle Obama, and Joe and Jill Biden — who demonstrate that American culture is “past all the taboos” that were formerly associated with PDA, Perry said.
The glaring exception is the previous first couple, Donald and Melania Trump, whose frigid public encounters interrupted what had otherwise been a natural integration of PDA into everyday presidential behavior.
In that sense, the Bidens’ displays of affection appear somewhat foreign after the last four years, even though they represent yet another return to the norms of past administrations that the new president repeatedly pledged to rehabilitate on the campaign trail.
“It’s comforting. It’s warm. It’s genuine,” Perry said. “And so if you layer the Covid issue, our divided country [and] the violence in our country upon the contrast with the Trumps, it just symbolizes everything.”
Good job, "Politico!" Just keep on keepin' on!
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I didn't see that it was the Bee.
Pretty damning indictment of our MSM that I entertained it as possible.
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The British Heads of State have centuries of inbreeding behind them.
What's America's excuse?
@doctor-phibes said in The Media Fellating Thread:
The British Heads of State have centuries of inbreeding behind them.
Do you really want to go there?
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Finally! A "What's it like to be POTUS" interview!
Speaking of the Naval Observatory:
"You can walk off a porch in the summer and jump in a pool and, you know, go into the work," Biden said of the vice president's residence. "You can ride a bicycle around and never leave the property and work out."
Presumably, he was not naked while riding the bicycle.
He compared the heavily fortified White House, on the other hand, to a "gilded cage, in terms of being able to walk outside and do things."
Biden said his brother and several presidential historians, including Jon Meacham, had helped him set up the Oval Office.
"It all happens within two hours, you know, literally," he said of the quick transition after former President Donald Trump left office. "They move everything out and move something in."
