The ever-underprepared* "Meet the Press" anchor Chuck Todd interviewed Joe Biden on Sunday and asked Biden if Benedict Donald, due to his woeful coronavirus response, had "blood on his hands."
"That's a little harsh," Biden responded, and he was right to do so. Todd, as is his wont, had asked a gotcha question that easily could have turned into a news-cycle-dominating event — something that wouldn't have done a bit of good for Biden but which we're sure Todd would have loved, ratings-wise. Biden wisely chose not to play ball.
Don't get us wrong. We cats are entirely willing to lay the coronavirus deaths of Americans — whether they're 100,000, 240,000 or 2.2 million — at Donald Trump's feet. But the country wasn't ready to hear that on Sunday, and they may not be ready for some weeks yet. And whenever it happens, the first person to say it shouldn't be Joe Biden.
Well, so much for "whenever," because it happened on Monday. In a scathing editorial, The Boston Globe declared, "As the American public braces itself for the worst of this crisis, it’s worth remembering that the reach of the virus here is not attributable to an act of God or a foreign invasion, but a colossal failure of leadership."
After listing the Trumpsters' many failings on the pandemic front, the Globe concluded with this: "The months the administration wasted with prevarication about the threat and its subsequent missteps will amount to exponentially more COVID-19 cases than were necessary. In other words, the President has blood on his hands."
Expect more of this as coronavirus deaths continue. With every loss, more and more Americans will be ready to hear it. In the meantime, we applaud Biden for his able handling of Todd, and we PURR.
*If you have to ask the genesis of this insult, you are not a Hillary Clinton fan.
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