FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Interrupted Paul Ryan More in 2012 Than Trump Interrupted (VIDEO)
The Democrats are trying to jump in the moving car that says President Trump interrupted way too much and that was only emphasized by Chris Wallace’s insistent interruption of the President himself.
But that car is headed off a cliff.
Yes, the President interrupted and so did Joe Biden, but Joe Biden was the one who started it, he just couldn’t keep up. Also, Chris Wallace who was supposed to be moderating the debate continually let Biden interrupt but would shout at President Trump when he did it.
But let’s reflect back to when former President Barack Obama was running for his second term.
During the Vice Presidential debate between Biden and Paul Ryan, Sleepy Joe interrupted Ryan a total of 82 times.
In the 2012 VP debate, Biden interrupted Paul Ryan 82 times, made faces the entire time, and dropped a steady stream of insults on Ryan. The media LOVED it.
In 2020, he came out and tried to use the same tactic on Trump. pic.twitter.com/UZ0UaCyX0O
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) October 1, 2020
In comparison, Chris Wallace interrupted President Trump 75 times.
In fact, the interruptions were so frequent and so obvious during the Biden/Ryan debate in 2012, that Saturday Night Live did an entire skit about it.
Of course, it was all fun and games when Biden brought us this style of debate in 2012. Here's how SNL saw it: pic.twitter.com/VCf1cEsAEh
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) October 1, 2020
Here is how the Baltimore Sun reported on the debate back in 2012,
“In TV terms, Biden was a hot mess much of Thursday night. His TV sins included: continually smirking, sometimes grinning and even laughing aloud as Ryan spoke. If you watched on CNN, which held the two men in split screen all night, Biden was almost insufferable in his reactions. One minute, he seemed smug, the next loopy.
And it got worse in the middle portion of the debate when he started to get hot under the collar and kept interrupting Ryan.
At one point, he even sounded like he was yelling at Raddatz about Afghanistan. OK, maybe it wasn’t exactly yelling, but he was talking far too loudly and forcefully for a man addressing a woman when she was the one supposedly in authority.
Really, between the inappropriate grinning and aggressive tone of voice, he sounded like an elderly relative who had one drink too many. I know that is not a nice thing to say about the vice president of the United States, but that’s the way part of his performance came across on the small screen Thursday night.”