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Joe Biden bike rideFox News meltdown as Joe Biden goes for a bike ride
Right-wing American media outlet Fox News unleashed criticism on President Joe Biden for going on a bike ride on the same day that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of a potential "third world war."
Asking why "Biden goes for bike ride at the beach as Ukraine president warns of 'third world war'", the news channel interviewed Donald Trump's son, Eric, with the banner 'confronting foreign aggression, Biden fails where Trump succeeds' on-screen.
Trump's second eldest son launched into a rant about the current President, saying: "Here you have Biden riding this beach cruiser, it's got this big, ridiculous reflector on the front and it may as well have had a horn on there.
"He's riding slowly, he's probably going to get ice cream. Literally in a world where you almost have world war three, all the problems domestically, and the guy's literally riding a beach cruiser around the place. My father would be giving speeches in front of F-35s..."
Eric Trump is very upset about Joe Biden’s bike and claims his father would be out there giving speeches in front of f-35s pic.twitter.com/toUrEsq7sn
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 22, 2022
"When you see a guy riding a beach cruiser, in the middle of the day. This is the Commander in Chief of the United States of America — what message does that send the world?"
The media meltdown continued despite the news Biden will travel to Poland on Friday to discuss the international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
It came after Biden was spotted riding a bicycle at Gordons Pond State Park in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Sunday.
Right-wing news and opinion website The Daily Caller, founded by Fox News ranter Tucker Carlson, ran a story headlined: 'Biden Takes Bike Ride At The Beach As War Rages In Ukraine'.
Last month, Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity accused the President of "fleeing the White House" after departing for Delaware against a backdrop of Russian troops advancing across Ukraine.
an all-time Fox News chyron pic.twitter.com/GG3PfDkmGC
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) March 21, 2022
It is not the first time Biden's choice of exercise has unleashed Fox News vitriol.
In September, one of the news channel's pundits slammed the President for going on a bike ride – but ignored the hundreds of golfing trips Donald Trump took in office.
"That is why his handlers and his wife, who by the way look increasingly like visiting angels, have to schedule in these senior breaks for him so he can take naps and go for bike rides because he can't concentrate on the job the way he should," Rachel Campos-Duffy, whose husband is a former Republican Congressman, said.
"I mean, just compare it to President Donald Trump," she said, ignoring the more than 300 times that Trump is believed to have visited golf courses while in office.
"[Trump] worked these long, long hours and had impromptu hour-long pressers with the media," she claimed.
Dan is the road.cc news editor and joined in 2020 having previously written about nearly every other sport under the sun for the Express, and the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Dan has been at road.cc for four years and mainly writes news and tech articles as well as the occasional feature. He has hopefully kept you entertained on the live blog too.
Never fast enough to take things on the bike too seriously, when he's not working you'll find him exploring the south of England by two wheels at a leisurely weekend pace, or enjoying his favourite Scottish roads when visiting family. Sometimes he'll even load up the bags and ride up the whole way, he's a bit strange like that.
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You don't have to go too far to search for fox news craziness... starter for 43, but any drill down on some of the more populist presenters brings new delights
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/most-insane-fox-news-moments-of-...
I like number 28: Fox poll claims 120% of Americans believe scientists falsify global-warming data.
Ah believed it twice!
There is some real merde on there, isn't there?
What you have to look at is the article is from 2014. So you don't have Tucker Carlson legal defense of "only stupid people would believe him", Hannity stating he is not a journalist so there is no rules on him appearing on stage at political rallies, and, again back to the favorite, Tucker asking Nicky Minaj's cousins friend (or his ex fiancee) to contact them so they can have a serious discussion about his oversized balls.
Did anyone else expect someone to run on with a key to wind him back up again at that point?
Not a beach cruiser, not riding slowly and not a reflector on the front (but why is that a problem anyway?!). Fake news!
As opposed to all those pics of the Donald playing golf as president? FFS
You beat me to it! How many times did The Donald go off playing golf, even after criticising Obama for playing golf...?
edit: https://trumpgolfcount.com/
Is Fox News actually part of Russia's propaganda machine?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-fox-news-russian-propaganda-b2033966.html
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-stays-silent-putin-turns-tucker-carlson-propaganda-pawn-1687902
The inverse of Betteridges Law of Headlines applies.
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.
It certainly appears that way.
There are certainly significant connections between Donald Trump and Putin, including those unsavoury weasels such as Arron Banks and Putin puppet Nigel Farage. Russian interference in the 2016 USA election and Brexit is not even in doubt any more.
Fox News, that bastion of US
republicanismright-wing extremism, being pro-Kremlin, who would have guessed...Many UK media outlets are also complicit, even their silence on some of the issues that really matter.
Memo to self when I have a time machine: "Send some tapes of Fox News and Republicans from 2022 back to 1982 to the Republicans of Yore, and see what they make of their successors praising Russia in general and Putin in particular."
What's the difference between an chick pea and a lentil? Donald Trump doesn't like to have a lentil on his head.
But of course he was friendly to Putin just because of reasons and nothing to do with any kompromat...
...and another one:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-ukraine-russia-flashmob-b2037054.html
Endlessly cutting and pasting left wing opinion pieces counts for an argument these days I guess.
You appear to have joined a UK based cycling website that simply noted as a positive that the president of the United States is riding a bicycle, in order to try and generate a stupid political argument.
And you still seem mostly unaware that most of the people responding are just taking the mickey out of you. Oh ... and Fox "News", the station that, as a matter of public record, went to court to defend its output on the basis that their audience should not expect their opinion hosts to tell them the truth.
And won.
SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT!
YOUR TYPE REALLY MAKES ME PUKE, YOU PERVERT!
What are you doing?! I came in here for an argument!
Oh! I'm sorry, but this is abuse
Oh, that explains it
Yes, you want Room 12A. Next door
Stupid git!
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