Joe Biden delivered an Oval Office address in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. It was a trainwreck address, accompanied by the typical slurred speech and missing words that now dot the president on the stump and in formal settings. The lack of self-awareness was unpresidential, and Biden could not take responsibility for increasing the political rhetoric, which was unforgivable. Yet, the media will always provide a crutch, and they’ll be there when they kick it out from under you, too.
We clipped the complete address and the president’s call for deciding matters at the “battle box.” He said it repeatedly.
Watch President Joe Biden's full address to the nation from the Oval Office following the attempted assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump: pic.twitter.com/nc29dhyy1F
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 15, 2024
BIDEN: "In America, we resolve our differences at the battle box. That's how we do it. At the battle box." pic.twitter.com/q11L5SJuU3
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 15, 2024
NBC News decided to do the same but edited what Biden meant to say:
President Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump:
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 15, 2024
"In America, we resolve our differences at the ballot box ... Not with bullets." https://t.co/8LUiW4dKjL pic.twitter.com/V51uGO6KLe
He did not say “ballot box”
— Sunny (@sunnyright) July 15, 2024
NBC is editing his speech to fix his errors https://t.co/8ldaoZTB5A
It's not surprising, but it’s amusing since NBC got into trouble not so long ago by editing George Zimmerman’s 911 call during the Trayvon Martin fiasco to make it look racist. All of these past misdeeds, coupled with the string of sanitized headlines that shamefully obfuscated what this event was—an assassination attempt--add to the narrative that we, conservatives, don’t hate our media enough.