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Curious George Stephanopoulos

News and notes on the media inside conversation amid the continuing Biden fallout: George’s man-on-the-street confession, Karine’s credibility crisis, and lessons from 2016.

George Stephanopoulos
Some of Stephanopoulos’s friends and longtime colleagues have wondered whether this was a gaffe or simply his subconscious attempt to reckon with his frustrations as a concerned American institutionalist? Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
July 10, 2024

On Tuesday afternoon, the ever-disciplined, often soft-spoken, and normally besuited veteran politico and newsman George Stephanopoulos was marauding up Fifth Avenue in a t-shirt and gym shorts when he was accosted by a passerby, who sought to extemporaneously follow up on the anchor’s recent newsmaking interview with embattled president Joe Biden. So, this passerby wanted to know, did George think the president should step down? “I don’t think he can serve four more years,” Stephanopoulos casually responded. In a matter of minutes, the secretly taped footage was furnished to TMZ.