If you want a quick laugh, here’s Ron Burgundy, Ferrell’s character, demonstrating.
Little did anyone know that we’d end up with a real-life Ron Burgundy in the White House nearly two decades later. Joe Biden has had numerous fights with his comically oversized teleprompter (see here, here, and here), and on Friday, he channeled Burgundy by repeating the instructions “end of quote” and “repeat the line” while squinting to see the oversized font in front of him (Biden can’t use a regular teleprompter, so he uses an enormous television instead).
President Ron Burgundy: "End of quote. Repeat the line.” pic.twitter.com/KmtNvCuEHF
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 8, 2022
Once the clip started to go viral, Biden’s assistant press secretary jumped in to claim that he actually said “let me repeat that line.” As you can see from the video, that’s just an outright lie, and it led to a legendary ratio.
The ratio is legendary. What makes it even better is she did it from an official government account which means she can’t delete it and it will forever be a part of the Biden White House archive. pic.twitter.com/jAqwnj4Oxh
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 9, 2022
There’s just no question that Biden read instructions off his teleprompter that he wasn’t supposed to read, something you’d expect of a geriatric, senile old man, which the president clearly is. Yet, incredibly, the White House decided to falsify the transcript, asserting that he said “let me repeat the line,” which was the original lie told by the assistant press secretary, and a claim that was easily debunked by simply…watching the video.
White House transcript of Biden remarks is now incorrectly aligned with what this WH assistant press secretary falsely claimed on Twitter, despite the video showing Biden clearly stating “End of quote. Repeat the line.” & *not* “Let me repeat the line.”https://t.co/fJrzgfdbEy https://t.co/GX3zftIEtB pic.twitter.com/snrRHnHRIr
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) July 8, 2022
