Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s recent attempt to justify her silence about former President Joe Biden’s mental decline.
[I]t does my heart good every time this useless, officious busybody and hypocrite scold is humiliated in her failed attempts to practice retail politics. And poor Liz took a whomping for the ages today, when she spectacularly failed to answer a question still on the minds of Democratic and Republican voters alike: Why did you lie to America about Joe Biden’s mental state up until the exact moment, onstage at the debate, he melted like a wax candle? …
… After about 50 minutes of chat — none of which I bothered to listen to — Fragoso headed into the concluding segment of the podcast by (quite reasonably) challenging her about the inadequacies of the 2024 campaign, doomed as it was by Biden’s senescence. “Why are we so slow to pivot? Why can we not get past our past?”
Warren responded by saying, “I’d like to answer a different question,” which is the point where the host betrayed visible exasperation as he accused her of always reframing his questions and answering something other than what he asked. Fragoso complained that he was nearly out of time. Warren responded, “I’m going to run out the clock here.” She then offered some gormless mush about how looking back “just isn’t helpful” unless we can do better moving forward, etc. etc. — typical politician slop, only delivered this time with that signature tone of Warren’s, the one that exudes the warmth of a lizard.
At that point Fragoso smiled and gently followed through:
FRAGOSO: Do you regret saying that President Biden had a mental acuity, he had a sharpness to him? You said that up until July of last year.
[pause]
WARREN: I said what I believed to be true.
FRAGOSO: And do you think he was as sharp as you?
The facial expression Warren makes in this moment must truly be seen to be appreciated — no single still image can do it justice, for its grandeur is conveyed in the kinetic body language of full moral collapse.
