At some point even Republicans have to feel for President Biden’s campaign team. They have the unenviable task of trying to manage a candidate who, at his best, might claim at any given time that he walked on the moon. At worst, he is likely to say that he thinks it is made of green cheese.

You have to figure the team longs for the days of COVID, when it was entirely possible to run a national campaign in an almost 100 percent controlled environment. No press gaggles, no impromptu stops at the local deli and blessedly few off-the-cuff remarks.

But, of course, 2024 isn’t 2020, and the Biden team cannot simply park its man in the Rose Garden and have him do choreographed exchanges with MSNBC and NPR. So they look for the next best thing — softball interviews with Biden-lovers or Trump-haters — and hope that their man won’t make too much news.

Unfortunately for them, the gaffemaster-in-chief is capable of bringing chaos even to the most controlled media environment. Such was the case last week on the Howard Stern radio program.

Stern, who was once edgy long ago, heaped praise upon Biden for an hour or so on such hard-hitting topics as his elementary school years, his stellar career as a life-guard, and his wife Jill. Biden then mumbled........

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