well. come on, man. how do we deal with terrorists without allies? come on, man. aoc is now working with ted cruz. she s trying to get now tell me that one, okay? it s hard to believe. come on, man. they, they re all going to end up voting for hillary. come on, man. gu g do you think any of those guys are going to walk in and vote for trump? come on, man. let s discuss now. good evening. so good to have both of you on. the former president used to say that all the time. come on, man. matt, i got to start with you because you wrote your piece for the washington post that come on, man, might was well be joe biden s campaign slogan. why do you think he likes that phrase so much? it conveys a lot about him. it s a bidenism. there are things he says all the time. here s the deal. but come on, man, cuts a little
wouldn t remember saying some of these things. they re almost like ticks at this point. i do think there is a sense in his mind that it is relatable. that there is sort of a way to go into living rooms, you know, in iowa, wisconsin, pennsylvania and it feels like that s the way from his point of view, you know, people talk. matt, is he watching this now saying, come on, man, that s just how i talk? yeah, that s kind of the phrase i got from some of his advisers when i was asking him about this. it is not a praise that they put in the teleprompter. you know, this is not part of his prepared remarks. it s a verbal tick that he has. as you alluded to, though, there is a gendered aspect in some ways to it. he is facing six women. many of them highly qualified in this race. so, you know, i think that there is nails on a chalk board among some women when you say sort of you guys as you address an audience of mixed genders. so it will be interesting to
barack, as he calls him. so, patrick, is there any significance to these mannerisms on the trail beyond just being figures of speed? you heard what matt say said. he said that he can use it to sort of undercut the premise of your question. i think that the key i think that s the key thing. the undercutting, the deflection of a question. i covered hillary clinton in 2008 and again off and on in 2016. she would often deflect with laughter. when she got a question, even if was a pretty serious question, she often, you know, would go to the sort of, like, big laugh that kind of pushes things off. senator harris does that sometimes, too. yeah, sometimes. but it s almost like to suggest that the question is ridiculous on its face, you know? and to sort of move it off. john kerry in 2004, you know, would often say sort of here s the deal and kind of reframe what the conversation was about and just go to go to what they were talking about. so it is that. but also, it is biden.
to play by rules i wrote. you are going to treat me like a utility, i will do what utilities do, which is we never go away. we have to suffer under the yolk of them. so this is the ultimate thing. we don t suffer under the yolk of internet explorer or hotmail. aol didn t crush the world when it bought time warner, for crying outloud. stuff in this world changes fast and people that behave badly and facebook has behaved badly should and will suffer, i am confident. yeah. you are not a stranger to the campaign of, you know, public campaigns that are very incredibly effective. clearly facebook, which is also instagram is very concerned about just what you heard matt say, that they will go the way of, you know myspace, right, that people just don t believe in it. that suddenly they will be on the losing end of a new tech trend. here is mark zuckerberg saying