The media is outraged that President Biden ... voted?

Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday September 14, 2022 · 10:15 AM PDT

2022/09/14 · 10:15

US President Joe Biden walks out of a polling station after voting in the Delaware primary election at Tatnall School in Wilmington, Delaware on September 13, 2022. - US President Joe Biden traveled to Delaware aboard Air Force One September 13, 2022 to vote in an election season that will decide the fate of his remaining time in office. The president cast his ballot in Delaware primary elections as his party scrambles for every possible vote in the November midterms, which will determine control of Congress and the future of Biden's legislative agenda. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Tuesday marked the final day of primaries for 2022. The next stop for our democracy is November elections. The three final primaries were held in Delaware, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The results for Republican leadership were not particularly good. You might remember that before President Joe Biden was Vice President Joe Biden he was Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware. On Tuesday, President Biden decided to do his civic duty and cast his vote in the Delaware primaries. It seems that Biden didn’t inform the press in advance of his plans to vote in his home state’s primary.

As a result, the traditional media—the one that GOP officials and the like call “liberal” or “left-wing”—have been making a lot of strange hay about this. The New York Times, for example, tweeted: “President Biden voted in the Delaware primary election on Tuesday. The process involved a hasty announcement to the press, multiple motorcades and two jet flights.” The tenor of this headline sort of makes things sound like there was some kind of chaos in the White House. Of course, the resulting article, with the more benign headline “Biden Flies Home to Wilmington to Vote in Delaware Primary,” also includes this piece of information: “But the pilgrimage back to his home state to cast a vote is a familiar one for sitting presidents, and typically affords an opportunity to connect with voters.”

You see what they did there? Sadly, the Times was not alone.

Here’s Associated Press White House correspondent Zeke Miller pushing some sad-face emoji.

The FAA posted a temporary flight restriction over Wilmington for a four hour period this evening consistent with a Biden visit https://t.co/3IouKqPqjO
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) September 13, 2022

But it was a lot more depressing than that.

over the years ive had reporters complain to me on here that its unfair to lump them all in together as the mainstream media. they say, we're all individual outlets with different agendas. i say you march in lockstep, usually for nonsense.

today?

bloomberg
cbs
ny times
politico pic.twitter.com/vKj9IbapqJ
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) September 14, 2022

It is one thing to discuss a sitting president who spends taxpayer resources playing golf no less than a third of the time he is in office and wasting hundreds of millions of dollars taking recreational golf trips that funnel taxpayer dollars into his own businesses. It is another thing to use resources to go and vote in our democracy.

Senior White House and Political Correspondent for CBS News Ed O’Keefe had a six-tweet-long run that began: “Aboard AF1 to Detroit, @PressSec pressed by reporters on why @POTUS and @FLOTUS flew back to Delaware Tues. for primary day and didn't vote early in person or absentee.” If you got past that hot mess of an opening statement and worked your way to his final tweet, you would have read this:

Should add: @PressSec said @POTUS and @FLOTUS Biden wanted to vote in person in part to thank election officials and poll volunteers, who've been the subject of scrutiny and harassment in recent years like never before.
— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) September 14, 2022

Huh. Maybe you could have led with that?

If you want to argue that Biden’s team could have planned things better in order to save the environment from wasted airplane emissions, you need to do better than this.

In case you're wondering if certain civically minded Delawareans have an alternative to say, burning 10,000 pounds of Jet A in order to vote -- they in fact do! pic.twitter.com/CewnCqi0Wk
— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) September 14, 2022

Here’s Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs.

Biden employed two motorcades, local police protection and the Boeing 757 version of Air Force One to fly from DC to Delaware vote in an election with no high-profile races on the ballot, @Jordanfabian and @jendeben reporthttps://t.co/OwotM5qFZW https://t.co/BqN0QBF6Sn
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 13, 2022

You might remember her as the Bloomberg reporter Trump called “my Jennifer.”

That “liberal” media!

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The media is outraged that President Biden ... voted?

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