There is not any reality to the rumor that Tua’s first phrases after regaining consciousness had been “Where’s Jackie?”
Those are the phrases uttered by President Biden when in certainly one of his periodic mind malfunctions final week sought recognition of a member of Congress who had died in a automobile crash in August.
Tua is, in fact, Tua Tagovailoa, the Hawaiian-born quarterback of the Miami Dolphins who was stretchered off the sphere final Sunday after being thrown on his head by imposing Cincinnati lineman Josh Tupou, a fellow Polynesian.
“I never intended to hurt him,” Tupou mentioned later.
The sound of Tua’s head hitting the exhausting synthetic turf might not have been as loud because the photographs heard all over the world, nevertheless it was loud sufficient to be heard by the NFL in addition to the nationwide media.
Tua’s concussion issues — and whether or not he ought to have been on the sphere within the first place after struggling a earlier harm the week earlier than — received extra media consideration than Biden’s newest brainless media efficiency.
In that earlier sport with the Buffalo Bills, a dazed Tua stumbled round as if he had been Joe Biden leaving a stage to shake arms with imaginary individuals.
In Tua’s case, it takes a success or two to knock him down, whereas Biden falls down on his personal.
The Miami Dolphins could also be in hassle with the NFL for prematurely returning a brain-cussed Tua to the taking part in discipline, however in contrast to Joe Biden, he has but to have a mind operation. Joe Biden has had two.
And in contrast to Joe Biden, Tua, as proficient as he’s, doesn’t run a rustic, solely a soccer crew.
Biden runs a rustic, or, as many critics would say, runs a rustic into the bottom.
Joe Biden’s newest mind fumble got here final week when at a White House convention on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, he sought to single out U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana.
Scanning the room for Walorksi to thank her for her work on meals safety, Biden mentioned, “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? I think she was — I think she was going to be here to help make this a reality.”
Only Walorski was not there. She was lifeless, having been killed in an Indiana automobile crash in August.
Biden needed to have been briefed about her dying as a result of he was scheduled to call a veteran’s well being clinic after her in a ceremony together with her household three days later. So, he both was not briefed, which is unthinkable, or he simply plain forgot, which is extra doubtless.
But the Biden-friendly and protecting media performed it down as simply one other innocent Joe Biden stumble or gaffe by a wobbly 79-year-old man searching for the boys’s room. It’s simply Joe being Joe.
And so long as he is ready to carry the torch for the unconventional Democrats, the progressives and his supporters within the liberal media with out setting himself on fireplace, all the pieces is all proper.
Biden, who turns 80 subsequent month, has repeatedly refused to take a cognitive check, the most recent request coming from U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, a Republican from Texas who served as a doctor to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
“It doesn’t take a neurologist to realize he is in serious cognitive decline,” Jackson mentioned.
While it was buried by the Biden-loving, Trump-hating leftist media through the 2020 presidential marketing campaign, Biden again in1988, whereas nonetheless a U.S. senator, suffered a mind aneurysm assault that almost value him his life. He was taken to the hospital after passing out in his lodge room following a speech on the University of Rochester.
He underwent two cranial aneurysm operations, one on either side of his head at Walter Reed Hospital.
When Biden introduced his candidacy for president in 2019, Dr. Neal Kassell, the neurosurgeon who carried out the operations, mentioned Biden “is as sharp as he was 31 years ago. I can tell you with absolute certainty that he had no brain damage.”
Maybe so. That was then. Maybe, like Tua, it’s time for a re-evaluation.
As the Brain Aneurysm Foundation places it, “Survivors might remember events from ten years ago but cannot remember who called yesterday.”
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”