Because what could be a more unifying message than telling your political opponents that their "garbage stinks so bad?"
Yet that was the way that CNN's John Harwood interpreted the speech that Joe Biden made yesterday after the Electoral College vote. Appearing on Tuesday's New Day, Harwood said:
"What I heard from Joe Biden was twofold. One, a bit of the same message that he'd been communicating for several weeks, which is one of unity, and trying to calm the passions of the election.
But also a bit of impatience creeping in. You know, we're now well over a month after the election. This effort by Republicans to challenge the election has been garbage the entire time. They haven't come up with anything. And I think what Joe Biden was trying to say, now that the electors have voted, this garbage stinks so bad that there is no justification for any of these Republicans to continue holding out."
Note that Harwood first spoke for himself in saying that "this effort by Republicans to challenge the election has been garbage the entire time." But he then puts that same notion in Biden's mouth, even amplifying. Not only does Republican garbage stink: it stinks "so bad."
Well, good luck with unifying and "trying to calm passions" with that, um, trashing of Republicans!
Note: Harwood has a long history as a hard-core Democrat partisan masquerading as a "correspondent." Just a few days ago, our Brad Wilmouth caught Harwood claiming that if President Trump pressured them to do so, Republicans "would go smack their own moms in the face."
CNN calling Republican election challenges "garbage that stinks so bad" was sponsored in part by Lincoln, ADT, and Babbel.
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CNN
New Day
12/15/20
8:03 am ETALISYN CAMEROTA: John Harwood, what did you hear in President-elect Biden's speech last night?
JOHN HARWOOD: What I heard from Joe Biden was two-fold. One, a bit of the same message that he'd been communicating for several weeks, which is one of unity, and trying to calm the passions of the election.
But also a bit of impatience creeping in. You know, we're now well over a month after the election. This effort by Republicans to challenge the election has been garbage the entire time. They haven't come up with anything.
And I think what Joe Biden was trying to say, now that the electors have voted, this garbage stinks so bad that there is no justification for any of these Republicans to continue holding out and yet as you were just discussing with Abby, so many, including Mitch Mcconnell, are trying to slip-slide their way into this new reality without ever having to take a stand, without ever having to say anything, without any fear of offending Donald Trump.
And that's what tells you something about the state of the Republican party and its connection to reality right now. A lot of Republican voters are having a hard time accepting this and the Republican elected officials who understand it intellectually are scared of those voters.
One bright sign for President-elect Biden, however, there was a Fox News poll that came out last night that showed him 20 points net favorable among Republicans, 59 to 39 favorable to unfavorable. That suggests that there is at least a glimmer of an opportunity for Joe Biden to get off to some kind of a decent start.
JOHN BERMAN: It's interesting, Abby, Joe Biden, the President-elect, was literally laughing off some of the assaults from Donald Trump over the past weeks.
