Kicker - Biden’s whisper

NICK EICHER, HOST: Usually, when politicians really want to get a point across, they turn up the volume a little bit. They raise their voice and add some punch to the message.

But President Biden is trying a different approach. He’s turning down the volume.

Like so:

BIDEN: I got them $1.9 trillion dollars of relief so far.

Vanessa Beasley is an associate professor of communications at Vanderbilt University. She said it is a little weird.

BEASLEY: It does look a little bit like a Saturday Night Live skit.

But who knows? It may be working.

Beasley said it’s an attention-getting way for the president to express emotion.

BEASLEY: And so that breaks the fourth wall, if you will, of the presidency to see what a president really thinks.

Some late night comedians have already begun poking fun at the "Biden whisper," as it’s becoming known.

But as long as the audience keeps leaning in, why not?

BIDEN: I wrote the bill on the environment.

REICHARD: You try it.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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