On NPR’s Weekend Version Saturday, host Scott Simon gave the impression of state-run radio as he touted Biden’s newest bodily confirmed “a powerful and vigorous man” as Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley “brazenly performed the age card” in her announcement. NPR political analyst Ron Elving insisted “any type of dissing of previous of us is a dangerous technique and more likely to backfire.” Liberals parade round their hopes as “information.”

It started like this: 

SIMON: White Home launched outcomes of the president’s annual medical examination this week. This can be a sturdy and vigorous man.

ELVING: Sure. Low ldl cholesterol, first rate blood stress, good BMI – one thing we might all envy.

“We might all envy…first rate blood stress?” The “good BMI” line might be a knock on Donald Trump.

Elving shamelessly touted Biden’s lies about Republicans eager to “sundown” Social Safety and Medicare as simply “new restraints.” Restraints can be correct, however that is in no way what the president stated. Biden’s lies — his “aggressive use of that speech” — is proof of his vigor! 

SIMON: And it is the week that, in fact, Donald Trump’s former U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, brazenly performed the age card when she made her bulletins for president.

ELVING: Yeah, she gave the impression to be tweaking each Biden and her former boss. America is just not previous our prime, Haley stated, it is simply that our flesh pressers are previous theirs. Nicely, OK. She proposed psychological competency assessments for politicians over 75, and she or he has some extent. After all, you do not have to look too far to seek out examples of workplace holders previous their sell-by date. However any type of dissing of previous of us is a dangerous technique and more likely to backfire.

Take, for instance, these options that price range balancing this 12 months may entail new restraints on Social Safety and Medicare. That concern – that got here up within the State of the Union earlier this month when everyone received up and cheered and stood. You recognize, that concern’s simply gone, Scott. The thought’s principal sponsor within the Senate, Rick Scott of Florida, formally backed off that concept yesterday.

SIMON: Yeah.

ELVING: So rating one for Biden and his aggressive use of that speech.

In addition they talked about Senator John Fetterman’s melancholy, hoping we’re “wiser” now about psychological well being: 

SIMON: Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman admitted himself to a hospital to obtain therapy for scientific melancholy. A few of us bear in mind when politicians can be reluctant to disclose that. Is the political local weather wiser now about psychological well being?

ELVING: Sure, let’s hope so.

And since NPR hates Fox Information, they wrapped up with having fun with how the Dominion lawsuit in opposition to Fox ended with juicy revelations that hosts did not imagine within the election-fraud tales they have been selling after the 2020 votes have been solid. “Did it shock you, Ron, that they simply intentionally lied to their very own viewers?” Elving wasn’t shocked, that “A few of these conversations among the many Fox stars counsel they knew higher, however thought it was their job to play to the feelings of the individuals they perceived to be their viewers.”

NPR has completely no time to speak about how they misled their very own viewers (taking part in to liberal sentiments) in October 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop computer was Faux Information, a “pure distraction.”