The Weekend host Michael Steele filled in for Joy Reid on Thursday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The ReidOut, giving an obnoxious tribute to President Joe Biden. During the segment, he invited MSNBC analyst Jonathan Alter to demonstrate the apparently stark contrast between Biden’s “decency” and the “malicious” and “nasty” Republican Party.
Steele began by playing a clip of Biden’s Wednesday night Oval Office speech, wistfully sighing as he fawned on the “emotional, yet graceful address to the nation…where he once again showed the country the kind of man he really is.” His cloying monologue continued, as he embellished on the attitude surrounding the event:
It was the beginning of the end for Joe Biden's five-decade career in elected office, and he did it in his own Biden-esque way, by elevating and restoring dignity to the conversation. The emotion of that speech was felt by many, including the president's family, who were sitting just out of frame in the Oval Office as he delivered those remarks, and by his staff, whose after–who afterwards greeted the president with cheers of “Let's go, Joe!” in the Rose Garden, where they celebrated in the most Biden way possible: ice cream.