To Recap

- On Sunday, Trump hosted a hate-filled rally in NYC, where a "comedian" called Puerto Rico a "floating pile of garbage."

- Republicans scrambled to try and distance themselves from the comment or explain it away.

- Trump holds a presser yesterday where he does not apologize for the comment or say that it is wrong.

- Harris holds a "Closing Argument" rally on the Ellipse in DC that brings 75,000 people and she delivers a compelling speech, even if it does not mention sharks, Hannibal Lecter or how unfairly she's been treated.

- Biden deplores the Trump rally and mangles a line about the speakers at the rally being garbage. Biden mangles lines like this a lot, but he immediately clarifies that he was talking about Tony Hinchcliffe.

- Right wing media immediately pounces on this to try and deflect away from the Puerto Rico is garbage story and Harris' speech.

- Credulous Beltway media types actually amplify it.

The conclusions are that it really is a good idea that Biden stepped aside. He is - especially at this point in his career - a very poor communicator, and that's part of the job. However, he did step aside, and you have a reporter saying the "Biden campaign" clarifying the comment.

People at the Washington Post are pleading with people not to cancel their subscriptions, but Bezos' killing of the endorsement is not just a broligarch protecting his government contracts, but a clear example of the Beltway Press's mendacity and desire to put their thumbs on the scale by sanewashing every vile utterance that leaks forth from Trump's puckered piehole, while holding others to a standard or perfection.