By Sniffles
It didn't seem possible that would be something in today's news more ridiculous than last night's Oscars. But we found it: the behavior of the White House press corps.
Reporters had the opportunity to question the President of the United States this afternoon about anything and everything: How does he think the Ukrainians are doing against their Russian invaders? Should the January 6 committee subpoena Ginni Thomas? What's up with the latest COVID variant? And hey, howzabout that judge in California who just said that Benedict Donald and John Eastman "more likely than not" committed a federal crime to overturn the 2020 election?
But they asked none of these things. Instead, they just paraphrased the same question over and over. You know what about.
One of the things we suspect Biden has developed over the course of his long and eventful life is a preternatural patience. Far more than we've got, that's for sure. He just kept calmly answering. "I’m not walking anything back," he said. "I wasn’t articulating a policy change. I was expressing the moral outrage that I feel and I make no apologies for it."
You know what? We feel a moral outrage, too. So does every clear-thinking, halfway-empathetic, sentient being on the planet. The videos out of Ukraine are monstrous, and the sight of millions of people uprooted from their lives almost too hard to take. (Biden knows, he was just there.) The President spoke for billions around the world when he said what he said about Putin, and it really makes you wonder when our political press is going to stop failing us. We cats HISS.
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