He leaned in, eyes wide, and whispered: “I got them $1.9 trillion in relief so far. “It's an intimate form of communication,” said Vanessa Beasley, associate professor of communication studies at Vanderbilt University.īiden whispered some of his answers to reporters' questions during an impromptu White House news conference last month after he and a group of Senate Republicans announced they had reached a deal to spend $973 billion on rebuilding the nation's infrastructure.Īs he stood in the East Room, Biden was questioned about his timeline for providing additional financial help to families.
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The White House and communications experts say Biden’s whispering is just this veteran politician’s old-school way of trying to make a connection while emphasizing a point.īiden's critics on the right as well as some late-night TV talk show hosts say the whispers are “creepy” and “weird." Conservatives use the dramatic soft talk to fuel the narrative that the Democratic president is unfit for the job, and comedians deploy it to generate laughs.
It was the latest instance of Biden speaking volumes by whispering. “Hey, guys, I think it's time to give ordinary people a tax break," he said, almost whispering as he addressed his critics.
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