No, Biden’s Putin Gaffe Was No Reagan MomentBiden’s slip-up was no Reagan moment, no matter what media sycophants desperate for a moment of good PR for the self-sabotaging president say.
BY: ELLE REYNOLDS
MARCH 28, 2022
After President Joe Biden went wildly off-script in his speech in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, members of the corporate media jumped to compare the gaffe to President Ronald Reagan’s “tear down this wall” moment. But the comments couldn’t have been more different.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden ad-libbed about Vladimir Putin at the very end of a half-hour of prepared remarks. White House officials immediately began doing damage control for the president’s radical and dangerous call for regime change in Moscow, telling the press, “The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith did similar clean-up, and multiple White House sources confirmed the line wasn’t in Biden’s prepared remarks.
In stark contrast, the iconic line in Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate had been discussed and debated in White House circles for weeks, and was very intentionally included by Reagan — it was no spur-of-the-moment line that accidentally said more than the president meant.
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There are several obvious differences between the two presidents’ remarks — such as the fact that Reagan was known as a master communicator and Biden is infamous for his gaffes, or that Biden’s line was far more incendiary than his predecessor’s. But the most glaring distinction is that Reagan intentionally included the line after weeks of thought, while Biden appeared to go off-script out of old-guy indignation and frustration. They’re nowhere near the same thing, no matter what media sycophants desperate for a moment of good PR for the self-sabotaging Biden administration say.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/28/no-bidens-putin-gaffe-was-no-reagan-moment/
