ABC’s Good Morning America pitched a torrent of slobber Wednesday over President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union handle, gushing over Biden as “fired up and fiery” providing “a message of hope” in “top-of-the-line speeches” ever with the White Home “using excessive” in opposition to “raucous” Republicans who had been “bitter”, infantile, and “impolite” in “jeering” Expensive Chief.

Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos set the tone from the primary tease:

President Biden pitched unity in his State of the Union handle, however Washington’s divisions on full show. In a single day, a fired up and fiery President Biden delivered his first State of the Union to a divided Congress…making the case the financial system is again from the brink, calling on Congress to assist…touting his bipartisan achievements and buying and selling jabs with Republicans.

Stephanopoulos formally started ABC’s protection by lamenting the night was “unusually combative, probably the most rowdy Home chamber in reminiscence as Republicans booed and shouted liar”. On the identical time, he gushed to senior White Home correspondent and Biden spin physician Mary Bruce that Biden “didn’t draw back from [the] battle.”

Bruce was cheery: “No, he actually didn’t. And I can inform you this White Home this morning is using excessive. I’m informed there have been cheers and high-fives right here final night time. They really feel the President made a transparent and compelling case for the progress made to date and the necessity to keep the course.”

Including that Biden “ask[ed] Individuals to belief him” that their lives are higher (than they assume proper now and predict going ahead), Bruce lamented the “raucous competition within the chamber” with “Republicans at factors jeering and heckling on the President, whilst he made the argument that it’s time they work collectively.”

Bruce framed Biden because the statesmen and never the taunter, saying he began “with a hand prolonged throughout the aisle” though Republicans replied with “outbursts.” In response, she bragged that Biden “seiz[ed] the second to show the tables on Republicans attempting to get them to commit” to guard entitlements.

Bruce wound down by saying Biden had “a message of hope” and delivered a speech hoping “to quell a few of the concern even from his personal social gathering a couple of re-election run.”

Stephanopoulos then introduced in senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott and senior Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl to poo-poo “bitter and impolite” Republicans as having created an “extraordinarily contentious” ambiance by taking part in “infantile video games.” 

In distinction, Karl gushed that Biden gave “one among [his] finest speeches…as President” and was unifying as a result of he didn’t use his most invective rhetoric in opposition to the GOP (click on “broaden”):

STEPHANOPOULOS: Rachel, let me start with you. I’ve by no means seen a chamber like that.

SCOTT: Yeah, George, and also you stated it your self. It was a rowdy Home chamber. At occasions, extraordinarily contentious. I used to be sitting contained in the chamber watching this all unfold as Republican members of Congress heckled the President of america. Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy warned his convention earlier within the day that the mics are sizzling, that the cameras are rolling. He wished this to be civil and respectful. He informed reporters after that closed door assembly that his social gathering wouldn’t be participating in any infantile video games, however, in fact, that every one served as a really stark distinction to what we noticed inside that Home chamber, George.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And Jon, the President had a balancing act, pleading for bipartisanship but additionally exhibiting he’s received a number of battle in him. Did he do what he wanted to do?

KARL: I actually assume he did. Look, this was a extremely uncommon State of the Union handle. However this is among the finest speeches that Joe Biden has delivered as President. He got here throughout as optimistic, hopeful. He gave the impression to be having an excellent time up there and even when he was delivering a few of these harsh assaults on Republicans, he was doing it with a smile, not the name-calling he’s executed prior to now. There was no speak of MAGA, you understand, extremist, ultra-MAGA Republicans and the response to the — from the Republicans, at the very least the again bench Republicans who had been heckling him and jeering him, performed precisely into his message. They made the distinction. He was in a position to for a second anyway, George, painting the Republican opposition as a bunch of offended hecklers, folks that — that had been bitter and impolite. You could possibly see Kevin McCarthy clearly didn’t just like the — the picture. He was actually shushing Republicans within the chamber.

Karl additionally threw in barbs at Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) for delivering the Republican response, trashing her speech as “harshly adverse, nearly a little bit of American carnage that we noticed from Trump in his inaugural handle.”

A couple of minutes after Stephanopoulos had a state-run information temporary that Biden “made the case that the financial system is again from the brink and referred to as on Congress for assist,” he interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris and lobbed one softball after one other that allowed for elongated, open-ended solutions (click on “broaden”):

That was fairly a chamber final night time. Your facial expressions gave some trace to what you had been pondering within the response to President Biden. However what does it say in regards to the prospects for bipartisanship?

(….)

The issues aren’t simply inside that chamber, although. The President additionally going through a skeptical public. The bulk do not assume they’re higher off since he took workplace and majority do not approve of the job he is doing.

(….)

The President didn’t make a selected reference final night time to that Chinese language spy balloon. Can the confrontation with China be contained?

(….)

The official Republican response final night time from Governor Sanders of Arkansas — she stated the selection earlier than America proper now could be the selection between regular and loopy. Your response?

(….)

Governor Sanders additionally made a degree in regards to the generational gulf. She’s 40. President Biden simply turned 80. Appears like he is gearing up for re-election however a majority of Individuals, in accordance — a majority of Democrats, in response to our new ballot say they do not need President Biden to run once more. What do you say to them?

Within the 8:00 a.m. Jap hour, Stephanopoulos and Bruce returned with a near-complete rehashing of their key speaking factors that bragged of “a fired up and fiery President” with Bruce hyping the “cheers and high-fives on the White Home final night time.”

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To see the related ABC transcript from February 8, click on right here.