Editor’s Note: This column updates and expands on a recent edition of Off the Cuff. It includes new information, including a report from the Media Research Center. It’s a good thing for Joe Biden that he’s not a Republican and that the only news story getting attention is the one about the pandemic — because if Biden were running for president under the GOP banner, and if the virus weren’t the only story on the radar screen, he’d be in real trouble right about now.