TV networks hype 'energetic' Biden’s SOTU address: 'Maybe this age thing was oversold!'

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The liberal networks were unanimous in their praise for President Biden following his "energetic" State of the Union address, many anchors and reporters approvingly acknowledged it was more like a "partisan" campaign speech.

CNN's Jake Tapper kicked off his network's coverage by saying "his presentation, his enunciation" were "not as clear as it once was a decade or two ago" but that "his mind did seem fairly sharp," though he admitted Biden botched the name of Laken Riley, the Georgia nursing student murdered by an alleged illegal immigrant, calling her "Lincoln Riley."

When asked if Biden "met the moment," CNN's Dana Bash replied, "He certainly met the moment," telling Tapper that Democrats "wanted him to be a fighter and boy fight did he deliver."

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"What's so striking to me is that Republicans – their whole thing right now is that Joe Biden is slow, that he's too old, that he can't do this. They walk into this trap every time that this White House sets for them," CNN's Abby Phillip said, later adding "He had a lot of moments where he was kind of trolling them. And that worked for him in this speech."

"This is the 36th of these for me, state of the unions or presidential addresses... never heard one so