The New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd slammed the Biden administration on Sunday for pressuring ABC News to remove President Joe Biden’s use of the non-existent word “best” during a Friday interview with George Stephanopoulos, and for pressuring her to edit a column of her own that highlighted the word’s use.
Daud I have written She quoted Biden in a Saturday column as telling Stephanopoulos, “As long as I’ve done my best and I’ve done the best job I can, I’ll be satisfied. That’s what this is about.”
Dowd said he did so because he and researchers listened to the video 10 times and checked the ABC News transcript and found that he said “awesome.”
She then said that after the column was published Saturday morning, Biden campaign spokesman TJ Ducklo emailed her to “advise” that ABC News had updated the transcript to change the word “best” to “best” so that it read, “As long as I did my best and gave it my best shot, that’s how I would feel.” good The purpose of this job is to do the best job I can.”
Dowd said Ducklo asked her if she could “tweak” the column and change the word “best” to “match the corrected transcript,” but she wrote:[T]The revised version was also incomprehensible.”
She became aggressive when Ducklo didn’t immediately agree, saying, “If Times The President claimed to have said things that the news organizations that conducted the interviews say he did not say…”
Ducklo insisted that ABC News made the decision independently, adding, “You’re certainly not suggesting otherwise.”
Ducklo wrote to her: “We have discussed this matter again. ABC News has received the tape and acknowledged the mistake and has made a correction.”
“It’s more confusing than it’s ever been,” Dowd said.
“What tapes? From who? Why were they passed around? Given how egregiously the White House has covered up Biden’s sagging skin, the press secretary’s reticence seems outrageous,” she wrote.
She then, by Saturday night, The Times Michael Shear and Michael Grynbaum said the White House “asked ABC News to verify” whether Biden said “best” or “best,” and argued there were discrepancies between what was recorded and what was in the ABC News transcript.
Dowd said: Times And I “annotated” her column and every article that used the word “best.”
Her Saturday morning column is annotated as follows:
Times Opinion amended a comment made in the column in which Biden spoke about how he would feel if he lost the election after White House officials and multiple news organizations contacted ABC on Friday, asking whether Biden said “best” or “best.” ABC’s standards team relistened to the audio and made the edits. Biden’s actual words at that point in the interview were difficult to hear and open to interpretation.
Dowd writes:[W]Whatever the president’s intentions, his answer to that question was completely off the mark.”
“Nobody cares if he feels confident in a losing situation,” she wrote.
“This may seem like a hoot, but it’s a sign of growing tensions between the bunker-mode White House and the ferret-mode press corps. Maybe the White House should think about subtitles,” she joked.
This is not the first time Dowd has clashed with Biden.
She is best known for being one of the people who accused Biden in 1987 of plagiarizing the work of British politician Neil Kinnock when he ran for president in 1988.
Daud I remembered She condemned the plagiarism in a June 29 op-ed in which she slammed Biden for putting himself above country.
I removed him from the race when I wrote about how he had clothed himself in the life of British Labour leader Neil Kinnock, an eloquent orator whose speeches he had perhaps unconsciously borrowed from Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey.
In the op-ed, she opined that Trump’s election to the presidency was “overdue.”
“His approval ratings have clearly declined in recent years, a dangerous development in a volatile world where AI is revolutionizing our country and a Supreme Court filled with religious fanatics is changing American life,” she wrote, citing a column she wrote in 2022 opposing his candidacy.
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