Former VP Joe Biden Channels 80's Cyber Character Max Headroom

The figure of Joe Biden breaks up during a live presentation of a COVID-19 social distancing consciousness campaign rally. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks via Snipping Tool (2020) 

Former VP Joe Biden Channels 80's Cyber Character Max Headroom

So here we go - future elected head of the Democrat Political Party, Joe Biden, as its candidate to run against the sitting 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, held a COVID-19 virtual campaign rally on the interwebs from Tampa Bay, Florida.

Many who must have planned this, said to themselves, what a great idea because we can get our nominee some face time with potential voters in an important swing state. The campaign contacted local station WTSP, virtual and VHF digital channel 10, a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to St. Petersburg, Florida, United States that also serves the community of Tampa Bay.

This is what they had posted at their YouTube site:

Joe Biden holds virtual rally for Tampa, Florida | 10 Tampa Bay
71,933 views • Streamed live on May 7, 2020 - 10 Tampa Bay - 28.3K subscribers

Social-distancing limitations are preventing candidates from holding crowded campaign rallies, so former Vice President Joe Biden is hosting a virtual rally for people in Tampa. Earlier today, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee held a virtual roundtable with community leaders in Jacksonville.

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No! This isn't the virtual rally, but Max Headroom, an '80's television comedy character actually ends up being more coherent in this over seven minute clip than everyone in the nearly forty-five minute Biden virtual campaign rally.

This excerpted and edited from FOX 13 News -

Biden's virtual rally for Tampa falters, plagued by technical issues
By Evan Axelbank - FOX 13 News

The era of virtual campaigning did not start well for Joe Biden.

A 45-minute rally targeted at a Tampa audience did not go as planned, as it was rife with poor audio quality, choppy video, and a candidate who wasn't even sure when he was on camera.

For just under 10 minutes [starting at 37:00 minutes], the former vice president spoke from a Florida-like setting at his home in Delaware.

Virtual rallies are a way for the presumptive Democratic nominee to target areas that will be crucial for his White House run, while still practicing social distancing.

"In the thick of this crisis, Florida has the worst rate of fulfilling unemployment claims of any state in the country," Biden said. "It's no surprise, the unemployment system was allowed to be hollowed out by Gov. Scott in 2011."

His theme: President Trump isn't equipped to handle a pandemic.

"This crisis is revealing so much about our society, including just how critical it is to have competence in government," Biden said.

Facebook entry on a timeline that reflects this author's instant impression of what he had witnessed on a report showing the video internet NETCODE effected glitches of Joe Biden's virtual campaign rally. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks via Snipping Tool 2020

At one point, about 2,600 were watching live on YouTube, though the number dropped to about 2,000 as the tech problems went on, which included a six-minute period of black screen during the warm-up speakers.

Before the rally, the Trump campaign held a conference call with reporters and one of their main points is that they consider their digital outreach efforts far ahead of the Biden campaign's.

"We are absolutely crushing it here on the ground in Florida and we are not going to stop," said Florida GOP chair Joe Gruters.

After the rally, the Biden campaign declined to answer any further questions about the technical issues.
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One can only suspect that most of the folks on the Joe Biden 2020 campaign staff never saw Max Headroom, for it would have provided some instant levity, call it the riches of embarrassment, in a dismal display of political professionalism.

This Democrat Political Party era will always be known here, and in the hearts and minds of embarrassed, yet well meaning Democrats, as Carter's Second Term.




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