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Hooray for Hollywood? You can bet that White House and Team Biden staffers won’t sing that tune today, not after George Clooney’s op-ed in the New York Times. Clooney, a long-time supporter of Biden and the Democrat Party, just stripped both of their main post-debate spin — the “one bad night” narrative.
It wasn’t just a bad night, Clooney writes, and he should know — because Biden was just as bad three weeks earlier at his fundraiser. And what’s more, Clooney declares that he’s done with the gaslighting:
I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced.
But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw. We’re all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted to ignore every warning sign. The George Stephanopoulos interview only reinforced what we saw the week before. As Democrats, we collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, who we respect, walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question.
