“Highly effective”

“Masterful”

“Passionate” 

The critiques are in and (unsurprisingly) leftist journalists had been in a tizzy over President Joe Biden’s 2024 marketing campaign speech, uh, 2023 State of the Union tackle. 

Broadcast, cable hosts and reporters had been “feeling nice” about “Mr. Easy” Biden’s “highly effective” and “passionate” speech as they cooed over his “magic second.” 

Whereas liberal media varieties had been impressed by an “energized” Biden and his “laundry record” of “accomplishments” they supplied a thumbs-down to the “bitter and impolite” Republicans within the viewers. 

The next are simply a number of the most absurd (post-SOTU) outbursts from liberal journos, as caught by the NewsBusters employees:  

“Feeling Nice” About “Mr. Easy” Biden’s “Lovable” and “Centrist” Tackle

“I’m feeling nice! That was a beautiful speech. Didn’t you suppose he was kind of Mr. Easy?…He was elegant, he was civilized, he was conciliatory, he was affordable, and possibly most of all, he gave the impression of a centrist, which is strictly the place he needs to be….Biden’s speech…was fairly gentle and virtually lovable with a number of proposals that lots of people are going to love.”
— MSNBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss on MSNBC’s reside protection of the State of the Union tackle, February 8. 

“Bitter and Impolite” and “Offended” Republicans Vs. “Energized” “Hopeful” Biden

“This is likely one of the greatest speeches that Joe Biden has delivered as President. He got here throughout as optimistic, hopeful. He gave the impression to be having a superb time up there and even when he was delivering a few of these harsh assaults on Republicans, he was doing it with a smile….The response….from the Republicans, at the least the again bench Republicans who had been heckling him and jeering him, performed precisely into his message. They made the distinction. He was capable of for a second….painting the Republican opposition as a bunch of indignant hecklers, those that….had been bitter and impolite.” 
— Correspondent Jonathan Karl on ABC’s Good Morning America, February 8.

Your Administration Has “Achieved” So A lot, Why Doesn’t the Public Acknowledge? 

“He [President Joe Biden] laid out very properly what your administration has achieved and did it in nice element. The factor is, although, the newest polls present Individuals nonetheless suppose the financial insurance policies are making their lives worse, that they don’t really feel higher off. What are you able to do to get the message throughout? We all know the laundry record of all of the issues which have [been] achieved, however but for some motive, for many individuals, the message isn’t translating.”
— Co-host Gayle King to Vice President Kamala Harris on CBS Mornings, February 8.

“Madmen” of the GOP Are “Operating the Asylum” 

“Biden understands the reality, which is [House Speaker Kevin] McCarthy has no energy in that caucus. He’s alongside for the trip….The truth is the madmen are operating the asylum….His Republican Get together doesn’t wish to acknowledge how democracy works, doesn’t wish to take subverting the desire of the folks off the desk. That’s the fact.”
— MSNBC host Alex Wagner on MSNBC’s reside protection of the State of the Union tackle, February 7. 

GOP = “Dumbest Political Get together That’s Ever Existed” 

“Republicans, he [President Joe Biden] needs you to yell. He needs you to shout….He needs you to behave such as you had been raised in a barn. Good job. You probably did all of these issues….I actually do suppose that there’s a plant contained in the RNC. And it’s a Democrat that was planted in there someplace like 2013, 2014 with the only real objective of creating Republicans the dumbest political get together that’s ever existed.” 
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, February 8. 

CNN Coos Over Joe’s “Passionate” “Highly effective” Message, Greatest Biden “Speech” “Ever”

“I feel this was the perfect speech I’ve ever heard him ship. He was passionate, it was extraordinarily effectively written, he clearly had practiced it and he — he delivered a robust message to the American folks.”
— CNN Scenario Room host Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s reside protection of the State of the Union, February 7.

“What we noticed immediately….was the vitality, upbeat, optimistic, however you additionally noticed Joe Biden the politician at his greatest….When he spoke at first of the night about January sixth, and he stated, our democracy confronted the best threats because the civil struggle, Kevin McCarthy sat there and he didn’t clap.”
— Correspondent Jamie Gangel on CNN’s reside protection of the State of the Union, February 7. 

“This was a President who was able to be within the area….He was feeding off of the vitality that he was coming back from the group in that room…Democrats may use this far-right wing of the Republican Get together, this type of MAGA crew to color an image for the American folks….It’s a really stark distinction….that individuals get to decide on between. And bonus, Biden comes throughout as somebody who’s having fun with himself and who has the vitality to be on this job for an additional, , till he’s effectively into his 80s.”
— CNN chief nationwide affairs analyst Kasie Hunt on CNN’s reside protection of the State of the Union tackle, February 7. 

Joe’s “Magic Second” 

“I don’t suppose there’s any doubt that that was the magic second…Folks had questions in regards to the vigor and the resilience of this President, he did in addition to he may tonight.”
— CNN host Chris Wallace on CNN’s reside protection of the State of the Union, February 7. 

Huffing Over Huckabee’s Response

“She leaned so arduous into the tradition wars, that she simply slid proper into ignorance. For her to say, to revel within the truth she’s an alum of Little Rock Central Excessive Faculty and lauding the Little Rock 9 and their statues — they’re memorialized! When the Republicans, significantly in Florida and I suppose now in Arkansas are going to make it unlawful for college kids to study why the Little Rock 9 are important and in bronze in Little Rock. This speech was totally offensive. When she talks about Republicans are there for freedom and Individuals, which Individuals and what freedoms? What in regards to the trans children who’ve targets on their backs? Or LGBTQ children in faculties, or black children in faculties who can’t be taught their historical past as a result of authorities is making it unlawful?…The message she simply gave to the nation and on behalf of the Republican get together simply proves to me that the Republican get together is misplaced, not misplaced, it’s gone.”
— Jonathan Capehart on Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee’s response to State of the Union tackle as aired on PBS’s reside protection, February 7. 

Giddy About Joe Biden’s Tackle

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg: “That’s what you get whenever you get an older individual as a result of they know easy methods to get you.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin: “That’s a statesman with 50-plus years of expertise in Congress. That’s what they acquired. I assumed it was so masterful….I feel it’s top-of-the-line instances we’ve seen Joe Biden. He was at his greatest.”
Goldberg: “Aren’t you glad you watched?”
— ABC’s The View, February 8.