Posted on 08/06/2020 6:12:49 AM PDT by Mount Athos
In an attempt on Wednesday to again protect their presidential candidate from himself, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News spiked an interview Joe Biden did the National Association for Black and Hispanic Journalists. In the controversial video, Biden snapped at black CBS correspondent Errol Barnett (who asked about Biden’s mental fitness) and demanded to know, “Are you a junkie?!”
Biden’s racist comment was played unedited earlier in the day during CBS This Morning. But as the controversy grew, political correspondent Ed O’Keefe continued his weeks-long efforts to protect and promote Biden by suggesting the junkie comment was directed at President Trump during the CBS Evening News. In that effort, O’Keefe edited out their own reporter’s question.
According to O’Keefe, Biden was supposedly “brush[ing] off questions raised by Mr. Trump about his mental fitness, telling black and Latino journalists, including CBS' Errol Barnett, that he's never taken a cognitive.” But back in reality, Biden was snapping at Barnett and O'Keefe refused to point out that Biden had once claimed that he had taken a cognitive test, which meant Biden was lying in some way.
Here’s what O’Keefe didn’t want Evening News viewers to witness and judge Biden on:
BARNETT: President Trump has made his mental ability and agility a campaign topic. And Vice President Biden previously said in June he's always confidently tested on the campaign trail. But I had a more specific question. Here's the exchange: Please clarify specifically, have you taken a cognitive test?
BIDEN: No, I haven't taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man. That's like saying, before you got in this program you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not. What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?
As for ABC, senior congressional correspondent Mary Bruce boosted another Biden conspiracy theory. “Hitting back today, Joe Biden said, the only things that can stop the Democratic Party now are ‘Trump defunding the post office and interfering with the election,’” she said.
She then boasted: “Biden today reveals he won't travel to Milwaukee to accept the nomination, saying he wants to do it in his home state of Delaware, calling it the right thing to do.”
Meanwhile on NBC, White House correspondent Geoff Bennett also commended Biden on staying home in his basement instead of attending the Democratic convention in. “Joe Biden will no longer travel to Milwaukee later this month to accept the Democratic nomination for president due to coronavirus concerns. Convention organizers announced today he will now deliver that speech from his home state of Delaware,” he reported.
Leading into Bennett’s report, anchor Lester Holt didn’t hide how one-sided the segment would be:
With the COVID pandemic still raging, it was announced today that Joe Biden will not travel to this month's Democratic convention. His rival, President Trump, meantime is sending more mixed messages about mail-in voting.
This new protection of Biden came after ABC and CBS had ignored his previous answer to a question about his slipping cognitive faculties, and NBC touted it. They also covered up Biden’s lie that 120 million Americans had died from COVID-19.
The networks’ protection for their presidential candidate was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Fisher Investments on ABC, HomeAdviser on CBS, and Allstate on NBC. Their contact information is linked if you want to tell them about what they’re funding. CBS Evening News has also asked that people text anchor Norah O’Donnell at this number: (202) 217-1107.
The transcripts are below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s World News Tonight August 5, 2020 6:38:52 p.m. Eastern
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MARY BRUCE: Hitting back today, Joe Biden said, the only things that can stop the Democratic Party now are “Trump defunding the post office and interfering with the election." Biden today reveals he won't travel to Milwaukee to accept the nomination, saying he wants to do it in his home state of Delaware, calling it the right thing to do.
(…)
CBS Evening News August 5, 2020 6:41:16 p.m. Eastern
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ED O’KEEFE: Biden today also brushed off questions raised by Mr. Trump about his mental fitness, telling black and Latino journalists, including CBS' Errol Barnett, that he's never taken a cognitive.
JOE BIDEN: No, I haven't taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man! That's like saying, you, before you got in this program, did you take a test whether you're taking cocaine or not? What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?
(…)
They are not just propagandists, they are highly skilled propagandists. There are in fact, undocumented contributors to democrat campaigns worth billions of dollars. Somehow, this must end if we are truly to have a democracy.
They cannot be allowed to censor their news, and pretend it is a news show. Hats off to Newsbusters!
If he’s not a junkie, then he aint black, right??
Mostly old people. Like my mother who passed away last November at the age of 92. She did not have cable. No internet. No smartphone. No computer in the house.
She watched the local news and then network news.
She still watched General Hospital every day @ 2pm.
I am 57. I watch the local WMUR ABC affiliate here in Manchester, NH. They mostly do local news, local sports(NH & Boston) and the weather. They mostly stay away from national politics. I watch them every morning before work. At 7 am GMA comes on. I listen to their teaser stories in the first minute and then usually change it to Fox & Friends.
The issue I personally have with watching Fox News is that they spend too much time on national politics. As much as I hate ABC they actually spent some time with the storm that hit the east coast the last two days. They talk about local sports teams. Including high school sports. Local school issues.
All Fox News is politics 24/7. It eventually is boring. Even for political news junkies like me.
Stuart Varney of Fox Business just had a Biden clip on from late yesterday in which he discussed China trade policy - it was disjointed, nonsensical and ridiculous that they trot this guy out as what he said mad less sense than what he told the CBS guy.
This seems like an in kind campaign contribution under goods and services.
Someone should look into that.
Joe heard it in that new movie, Shaft.
Joe is buying the vinyl record that has the Shaft song on it. Joe knows he has to listen to the latest music to seem hip to the young voters.
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You're absolutely right. These are propaganda outlets, not legitimate news organizations.
I’m 52. We have the morning local news on from 5:45 or so until 7:00, then switch to Fox News until we get ready to work. I generally have Fox Business going in the background until Cavuto comes on. My son thinks it’s funny to turn on CNN or MSNBC to see how long it takes for me to notice. I don’t think I’ve watch a network news cast since the aftermath of 9/11/01. We are usually eating supper at 6:30, and the news isn’t how I want to be winding down at 11:00. From their videos, it doesn’t look like they have the production quality of Fox. They do that very well.
I bought earbuds solely because of the time I spend in airports waiting-indoctrination areas.
This new protection of Biden came after ABC and CBS had ignored his previous answer to a question about his slipping cognitive faculties, and NBC touted it. They also covered up Biden’s lie that 120 million Americans had died from COVID-19.
Partisan Media Shills update.
Good plan. The entertainment value of CNN wears off pretty quickly.
Sad part of all this is about 60 Million will still vote for this demented geezer...
And, there is a chance he’ll somehow get elected...
What? CBS deliberately lying? I’m shocked. Shocked.
It’s time to start jailing these “journalists.”
Has ABC or NBC played Biden’s newest quote:
“And by the way, what you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-african-american-community-the-latino-diverse
Come on, man! Why you raggin’ on old Joe?
LOL!
LOL! Literally!
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