October 30, 2021
Biden’s European trip already a clown show
By Thomas Lifson
Despite the happy face that the legacy media are putting on first day of President Biden’s European trip, his customary level of hypocrisy and incompetence is showing through the PR gloss.
Start with the spectacle of a leader intent on demonstrating “leadership” on climate issues (as in throwing away billions of taxpayer dollars on useless, expensive, and harmful measures to curtail emissions of CO2) parading into Rome with an 85 car slow-moving motorcade, after 4 giant jets carried the party to Fiumicino Airport completed transatlantic flights. China’s President Xi Jinping, in contrast, will be attending the G-20 Summit in Rome today via video link, sparing the atmosphere many tons of CO2 for transportation. To be sure, China is building coal-fired electricity generation facilities at a breakneck speed, but he gets bragging rights on conserving energy compared to Biden’s extravagant emissions
Joe and Dr. Jill had hoped for a lot of live TV time with Pope Francis to kick off Friday’s round of events, but:
The Vatican on Thursday abruptly canceled the planned live broadcast of U.S. President Joe Biden meeting Pope Francis, the latest restriction to media coverage of the Holy See that sparked complaints from White House- and Vatican-accredited journalists.
The live broadcast of Biden’s Friday visit was trimmed to cover just the arrival of the president's motorcade in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the revised plan reflected the “normal procedure” established during the coronavirus pandemic for all visiting heads of state or government. (snip)
Cancelled was the live coverage of Biden actually greeting Francis in the palace Throne Room, as well as the live footage of the two men sitting down to begin their private talks in Francis’ library, at which time the cameras would have stopped running.
The Vatican said it would provide edited footage of the encounter after the fact to accredited media. Bruni didn't say why the Vatican had originally announced fuller live coverage only to dial it back on the eve of the visit.
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