By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO — Using AI and deep fakes, FOX’s coverage of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech would have looked totally different than the version of it aired on CNN and MSNBC. Biden moved down the aisle at a glacial pace with the aid of a walker and then collapsed. He was transferred to a wheelchair and required several Secret Service agents to lift him up to the stage.
After the applause subsided, he looked down at the podium and realized he had forgotten to bring his speech. Another delay occurred while aides scurried to find the folder containing his speech. By the time he started to talk he was drooling profusely and asking where he was.
Then he opened with this line: “In January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation, and he said, ‘I address you in a moment, unprecedented in the history of the union.’ I mention this only because FDR was in a wheelchair too and still was fit enough to serve out his third term.”
Biden castigated the Supreme Court for overturning Roe vs. Wade denying doctors the opportunity to commit infanticide on fetuses in the last weeks of the third term. He felt late abortions were needed so he could get stem cells and transplant organs to keep him alive through his second term.
When he spoke about the bi-partisan immigration bill, he invited leaders of the most violent Mexican drug cartels up to the stage. After they thanked him for letting their businesses flourish. Biden cited this as an example of how Bidenomics promoted growth from the middle out and the bottom up. After all, he reasoned, the Cartels employed a lot of people and brought an endless supply of cheap labor to the United States.
He pledged to appoint Hunter Biden to run the Department of Commerce. That way lobbyist bribes could go directly to the Biden crime family. Biden announced that would tax the rich more heavily and that the millions of dollars in fines imposed on Trump were a good beginning at reducing the deficit.
When he raised the issue of inflation, he called most Americans a bunch of spoiled complainers. He hadn’t noticed any increased prices when dining at the White House, riding in his limousine, or flying in Airforce One.
Biden ended his speech by reminding Americans that democracy was at stake in the coming presidential election. He regretted that the threat to it had not been preempted by the prosecutions against Trump and the 1/6 protesters that he had personally ordered. His only regret was that he didn’t command Merrick Garland to charge and convict Trump earlier in his administration and demand the death penalty for him.
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Baron is professor emeritus at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via Lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com
Dr. Baron, your satirical wit bites as sharply as ever.
Jerry Markus sent this letter: “Although this was a satire I thought it was in poor taste to include it in the SDJW. I submit that any article that furthers the divide within our community should be covered with a significant denunciation. This one was particularly divisive as it will be taken by many to be real just at the now famous non-quote “I can see Russia from my house.” Respectfully, Jerry Markus
Bruce Lowitt sent this message: Jerry Markus is right. Insulting. Not funny. Not even close.
“Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.” Maajid Nawaz
In the polarized politics of our country, I am bound to be divisive if I satirize FOX and Trump or Biden and MSNBC. Yes, I am partisan, but take a look at how FOX leaps upon every gaffe, senior moment, and stutter Biden makes and my caricature of its coverage will be funny if you support Biden or watch MSNBC. Or to put it another way, what different people find funny or “insulting” is subjective.