Does President Happy Questions Biden know what a press conference is for?
President Joe Biden had a snit fit at Fridays press conference, lecturing reporters, I want to talk about happy things, man, because they were asking more questions about the Afghan pullout than he wanted to answer  and his goal was to push a narrative about his administrations success. Which misses the point of a president facing the media, namely (in part) to get him to address issues he doesnt prefer to discuss. The president whined, Its the Fourth of July, and complained, You guys are asking me questions that Ill answer next week. This is a holiday weekend, Im going to celebrate it. Theres great things happening, listing some of his supposed successes. He did answer the first two questions on Afghanistan, but mostly with hand waves, insisting America isnt rushing out any faster than planned and that the democratic government has the capacity to sustain itself against the surging Taliban. Biden rarely faces the press at all and then routinely calls overwhelmingly on reporters he expects to be friendly. (His staff even hands him a list of good guys.) And of course most of the media are blatantly on his side (except when he actually tries to be bipartisan).