In response to President Joe Biden being compared to the bumbling hero Ron Burgundy of the comedy movie “Anchorman,” the White House Press Office has weighed in to defend him.
Greg Price, a Republican strategist, made fun of Biden on Twitter on Friday after the president made yet another mistake in which it appeared like he was reading from a teleprompter.
It is remarkable that a higher proportion of women consistently register to vote and cast ballots than does the corresponding proportion of men. Quote complete. In an earlier speech at the White House, the president urged the audience to repeat the line.
Women do not lack political or electoral power.
Price compared it to Will Farrell’s Ron Burgundy’s inability to break from the script on his teleprompter despite grammatical problems and glaring inaccuracies when he posted the video on social media.
Burgundy’s embarrassing on-air speech mishaps are a running joke in the entire film.
Price shared a video of Burgundy’s irate TV team and implied that the White House workers working behind the scenes felt the same way.
Emilie Simons, the White House’s assistant press secretary, refuted Price’s assertion that Biden erred.
No, Biden said, “Let me repeat that statement,” Simons wrote.
Elon Musk, a fellow critic of Biden who agrees with Price, joined in the fun by saying, “Whoever controls the teleprompter is the true President!”
The wealthy Tesla entrepreneur also shared his own version of the “Anchorman” joke, showing a scenario in which Burgundy signs off in an unusual manner since his teleprompter script incorrectly added a question mark to the end of his name.
The graphic text reads, “For the last time, Burgundy will read anything you put on that teleprompter.”
During the All-In Summit in May, Musk made a similar assertion and accused the president of not being fully in charge.
At the meeting, Musk stated in a podcast that “the true president is whoever controls the teleprompter.” “The road to the teleprompter is the road to power.”
He added: ‘I do feel like if somebody were to accidentally lean on the teleprompter, it’s going to be like ‘Anchorman.”
After the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade late last month, Biden signed an executive order to protect access to abortions that was preceded by his speech on Friday at the White House.
The initiatives include increasing patient privacy rights and expanding access to emergency contraception and abortion drugs.
The president criticized the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision as a “awful, severe, and I think just utterly wrongheaded decision,” in which the conservative majority of the high court sided with Mississippi in eliminating federal abortion restrictions.
‘After having made the decision based on a reading of a document that was frozen in time in the 1860s when women didn’t even have the right to vote, the court now practically dares the women of America to go to the ballot box and restore the very rights they’ve just taken away,’ Biden said.
He described the 5-4 decision to invalidate Roe as “an exercise in sheer political power,” along with its sister case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
Chief Justice John Roberts supported Mississippi prosecutors’ position on reducing the federal abortion barrier to 15 weeks even though he disagreed with his fellow conservatives on overturning Roe.