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ABC, CBS, and NBC broke in Wednesday night for President Biden’s farewell address and, while they were never in total awe like they were with Barack Obama, they still showed their stripes in cheering the “advocate for working people” giving “very personal” “speech for the history books” and delivering an “extraordinary” message about the decline of “fact-checking” and an “oligarchy...that literally threatens our entire democracy.”
CBS led the way with a full ten minutes of post-speech chit-chat. Chief elections and campaign correspondent and anti-Trump author Robert Costa swooned over the “deeply personal” speech by someone “began his career at Scranton Joe, as someone who was an advocate for working people” and thus channeling Dwight Eisenhower’s own farewell address about the military industrial complex:
Well, at one level, it was deeply personal, Norah, you did see the photos of the family sitting behind President Biden, including his late son, Beau Biden. Earlier in the day, I was meeting with President Biden’s close friends like Senator Chris Coons and they expected him to advocate for his record, but was most striking — which you mentioned, the echo of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17th, 1961, President Eisenhower in his own farewell address warned the nation of a so-called military-industrial complex. Now, President Biden, as he departs the presidency come is warning of an “tech industrial complex,” and this comes as Elon Musk, the billionaire and others like Jeff Bezos are prepared to sit on that dais at the inaugural, President-Elect Trump on January 20th, and you see President Biden, who began his career at Scranton Joe, as someone who was an advocate for working people, ending his presidency as someone underscoring his own progressive values, really sending a signal to the left in this country that he stood with them on their core economic issues.