Fox News host Tucker Carlson was reduced to tears of laughter on set Thursday night when frequent guest and occasional fill-in host Mark Steyn started roasting Joe Biden.
The Biden campaign has been in meltdown mode recently over a seemingly endless stream of gaffes and mistakes by the former vice president that is almost hard to believe. The Washington Examiner reported that Carlson commented on some of Biden’s most recent flubs Thursday night before Steyn did his best impersonation of Biden trying to remember what year he was born.
“I just drooled on myself,” Carlson said in response.
Gaffe-machine on overdrive
With media attention on Biden’s many slip-ups, the gaffe machine seems to be going into overdrive. Remarkably, “Joe 30330” even seemed to forget Barack Obama’s name this week.
After talking about some of Biden’s recent meltdowns, Carlson addressed a truly elaborate gaffe that was covered in The Washington Post on Thursday: Earlier this month, Biden told an audience in New Hampshire a vivid, dramatic story about a trip he took to Afghanistan to award a Navy captain with a Silver Star for retrieving the body of a fallen comrade, taking note of the dangers he was enduring by traveling to the country.
“We can lose a vice president,” Biden recounted melodramatically. “We can’t lose many more of these kids. Not a joke.”
“It was 20 minutes before dawn…”
But the Post — which Carlson noted had “every incentive” to cover for Biden, given their anti-Trump bias — found that Biden’s story was wrong down to the most minute detail, including “the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and rank of the recipient…as well as his own role in the ceremony.”
Carlson then turned to Steyn for his reaction, and the guest delved into an elaborate, improvised parody of Biden’s uncanny ability to tell “vivid” accounts composed almost entirely of inaccurate information that left Carlson with split sides.
“It was 20 minutes before dawn on D-Day and this 9-star general says to me, ‘Mr. President, it’s too dangerous for you to go in there,’ but I say, ‘the Minutemen are taking on the Bengal Lancers,’ so I flew in on a glider from Diego Garcia and we came under heavy fire from a group of whirling dervishes holed up in Brigitte Bardot’s apartment outside Euro Disney,” Steyn said. “This was classic Biden. He’s back! His mojo has returned! His mojo knows what’s state it’s in.”
“That was unbelievable,” Carlson replied. “I would vote for you for president after that…but you did it on purpose!”
What Joe Biden does best
Steyn went on to comment on another flub by the former vice president: Biden seemed to lose track of what state he was in when he told voters in Keene, New Hampshire last weekend that he was enjoying his time in Vermont.
“He’s insulting the populations of key critical primary states in a kind of brilliant way,” Steyn said of Biden. “But the sad thing is when he just stumbles around, mumbles around. This brilliant, blazing, vivid recollection of something that actually never happened is actually what Joe Biden does best.”
Despite the mistakes, Biden continues to hold a commanding lead among other 2020 hopefuls. But the seemingly endless gaffes have some wondering if a Biden collapse is imminent, particularly as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) surges in the polls.
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