JOE BIDEN, WITH EYES BLOODSHOT AND FIVE HOURS LATE, INSULTS EVERYONE WATCHING WITH SURREAL PRESSER.

The Biden administration thinks they can ride Afghanistan out like a bad media cycle. And the media, having given them a surprisingly good pounding over the past week, will likely eventually roll over and let them.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This bit is the money graf, though: “But what I took the most from this presser is this: Biden is sick. As I said, his eyes were bloodshot and glazed over. It was difficult to even see the whites of his eyes at times. His presentation was cold, with no empathy to be found. Upon finishing his teleprompter reading, he simply stumbled out, taking no questions, clearly unable to physically and mentally do so. It was obvious why he was five hours late for this presser. Something is bad wrong with the president, and there’s no way it can be ignored anymore.”