The imaginary nontroversy that Biden would duck Trump dominated the news coverage in conservative media at times despite the Biden campaign’s repeated and crystal-clear statements to the contrary.

So the people who get news from these outlets had to have been floored when the news came that it was the other way around: Donald Trump is cowering at the prospect of meeting Joe Biden on the debate stage after getting so thoroughly schlonged in the first contest.

Isn’t it ironic. Like rain on your wedding day.

Let’s take a quick tour through a few of the writers and TV hosts who incorrectly guaranteed that it would be Biden who ducked debates rather than their enfeebled president.