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As Biden Calls Us Garbage, a Huge Collection of News Outlets Root in the Recycle Bin to Clean Up His Mess

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Oct 30, 2024
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There is enough of a furor over Joe Biden’s “garbage” comments and a desperate press corps working to clean up his verbal mess that today’s column qualifies under one category.

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THE WHITE HOUSE

In order to place all of this in the proper context, here is the video of Joe Biden’s comments on Tuesday. He was attempting to address the ginned-up controversy surrounding comedian Tony Hinchcliffe telling a joke about the island of Puerto Rico dealing with garbage problems, and the result was…well it was trademarked Joe Biden nonsense.

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As an indicator of how this went off the rails (expectedly), one of the drones inside the White House Communications Office took to Joe’s Xitter account to correct the record and “clarify” what he really meant to say.

POLITICO / MSNBC

  • We need to fix this immediately – revisionist punctuation to the rescue!

Jonathan Lemire was among the first to rush to Biden’s aid. He provided the transcript of President Silver Alert’s comment, and in it, supplied an apostrophe, altering his use of “supporters” to read as “supporter’s,” in order to claim he was only referring to the words of the lone comedian.

NBC NEWS / CBS NEWS

  • We’ll just keep revising the official transcript until SOMETHING works.

To see the desperate flailing on the part of the administration, this attempted punctuation reinterpretation was not even settled upon cleanly. The White House fed the compliant press differing transcripts with the new apostrophe addition that delivered differing interpretations.

CNN

  • Okay, he said it, but it was his impediment, not what’s in his heart.

On CNN, they went in another direction. Although we all heard Biden’s words, we are to believe it was a verbal miscue, not his true intentions. 

That’s right – we get the “He has a stutter” excuse brought back from out of storage!

WASHINGTON POST

  • Is this considered “Republicans Pounce” or “Republican’s Pounce”?

The Washington Post jumps into the fray with its punctuation follow-up but then adds an expected trope for a flourish. There they go, those Republicans, pouncing and seizing again!

Republicans have long strained for a new Hillary Clinton-Deplorables moment, but Biden’s defense is entirely plausible.

CBS NEWS

  • Man, those garbage people on the right sure get testy pretty easily!

Matching this narrative is Ed O’Keefe, who details how Republicans have become angered over Biden’s garbage comments. He even goes on to use “seize” repeatedly in his report.

Notably absent in Ed’s coverage throughout the weekend is how angered, triggered, and upset Democrats have become – over a joke. Seems nobody on the left pounced, or reacted otherwise, according to his body of work.  

YOUTUBE

  • "We have no idea what you are referring to"...!

In its best way possible, the biggest video platform is working to kill off the Biden “garbage” issue – by not making it searchable on its site.

CBS NEWS

  • Do not believe your lying ears!

One other novel approach to this was also taken by CBS, in addition to the tired “pounce” cliche. See, you only think you heard Biden say what is claimed – despite there being a clear video showing him speaking in his unclear fashion.

No, CBS News is here to tell us that it only “appears” that he called us garbage, but he did not actually say what is clearly heard being said.

CROOKED MEDIA

  • Okay, but…he is the president – you know, the head of the administration from which Kamala derives?

The desperation is so widespread you can taste it. (Salty, and rather bitter.) Many on the left, like Mr. Favreau here, are trying to suggest that somehow the words of the president of the U.S. do not count, since he is no longer on the ballot. And yet…braying for days about a comedian’s joke is perfectly sound political discourse.

Well, that tears it – We will NOT be voting for the comedian next Tuesday!

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

  • This speaks to just how far Biden’s influence has slid.

One might think that the leader of the free world referring to half his country as refuse would warrant mention on the biggest public radio broadcaster. But no, it was not deemed worthy of NPR’s attention.

That is not to say the topic was forbidden. They continued to bring up the comments made by a comedian telling a joke because that holds far more sway in this nation than the mentally-addled president, we assume.