INSANITY Guy Benson on Joe Biden's latest gaffe: This is why Team Biden keeps him in the basement

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Guy Benson on Joe Biden's latest gaffe: This is why Team Biden keeps him in the basement
Joshua Nelson
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s latest interview gaffe shows the reason why his campaign keeps the former vice president away from doing interviews, Fox News contributor Guy Benson said on Friday.

“He said what he said out loud and it sort of aligns with what he said a number of months ago you remember talking to Charlamagne Tha God a couple of months ago where he said black people who are having trouble deciding whether to vote for Donald Trump or Joe Biden then ‘you ain’t black,’” Benson said on "America's Newsroom." “This is precisely why team Biden generally wants this man in the basement limiting interactions because when he comes out and pokes his head up and has things to say, there is sort of a daily cleanup of aisle Joe."

BIDEN AGAIN PRAISES LATINO DIVERSITY AS BEING 'UNLIKE THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY'

President Trump on Friday said his presumptive Democratic challenger Joe Biden “is no longer worthy of the Black Vote,” after the former vice president made comments contrasting African American and Latino diversity.

“Sleepy Joe Biden just lost the Black Vote," Trump tweeted earlier Friday. "This statement is a disaster from which there is no recovery!”

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The president then deleted the tweet and replaced it with the new one.

In both tweets, the president was referring to Biden’s remarks during an interview that aired at the convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

During the interview, Biden was pressed over whether he would “re-engage” with Cuba as president—something the interviewer noted would have an impact on Cuban-American voters in Florida.

“Yes, yes," Biden responded. "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.”

He continued to elaborate on the differnces between Black and Latino Americans.

"You go to Florida, you find a very different attitude about immigration in certain places than you do when you're in Arizona, so it's a very diverse community,” Biden said.

Biden, later Thursday night, attempted to walk back the comments.

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Guy Benson, the host of Fox News Radio's "Guy Benson Show," said that the Trump campaign realizes they are behind Biden in the polls.

“It seems like part of their strategy now is to try to smoke Joe Biden out to get him talking more," Benson said. "I think their idea is the more Joe Biden speaks, the more advantageous it'll be for them and we’ll see if that strategy pays and works.”

Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

 

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Washington Post fact-checker roasted for dismissing Biden diversity gaffe: 'He didn’t actually say this'
Brian Flood
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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler was roasted on social media Thursday for dismissing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s latest gaffe, claiming the former vice president "didn’t actually say this" despite video that arguably proves otherwise.

Biden raised eyebrows when he said in an interview, "Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

BIDEN RAISES EYEBROWS WITH REMARK CONTRASTING AFRICAN AMERICAN, LATINO DIVERSITY

The comment was widely considered an inadvertent dig at the African American community. Biden eventually walked back the comments, claiming he didn’t mean to suggest “the African American community is a monolith.”

But hours before Biden admitted he misspoke, the Washington Post fact-checker was accused of covering for him. The Twitter account for Team Trump shared the video, paraphrasing Biden’s remarks.

“Joe Biden just said that Latinos have diversity of thought, unlike Black Americans,” Team Trump wrote, calling the comment “disgusting.”

BIDEN WALKS BACK DIVERSITY COMMENTS ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY

Kessler responded, “If you listen to the clip, he didn’t actually say this.”


While Kessler was correct that Biden didn’t literally use the exact words that Team Trump tweeted, he was quickly accused of "lying" to cover for the presumptive Democratic nominee.

“Obviously the Trump campaign will put this in the worst light possible, but I'm curious how you would paraphrase what he is saying,” writer Jeryl Bier responded while another user shot back, "You need hearing aids."

The Washington Post did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

BIDEN AGAIN PRAISES LATINO DIVERSITY AS BEING 'UNLIKE THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY'

Many others took to Twitter to criticize Kessler's defense of Biden:

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Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.

 

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Following Biden's mea culpa, CNN, MSNBC defend former VP after virtually ignoring latest gaffes
Joseph Wulfsohn
5-6 minutes

Despite being 24-hour cable news networks, CNN and MSNBC offered little to no on-air coverage of Joe Biden's latest gaffes, at least before he offered a mea culpa.

Prior to Friday morning, when MSNBC's Joe Scarborough defended Biden's "inartful" comments on diversity and CNN's John Berman pointed out the "irony" of President Trump going after Biden over his racially-charged remarks, there was a virtual blackout of the controversy for nearly two full days on their networks.

Biden's rocky situation began Wednesday morning when a preview clip was released from his interview that at the convention of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ).

In the full interview, broadcast Thursday, Biden contrasted the Black and Latino communities, saying "unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

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Later in the day, Biden repeated those remarks while speaking virtually to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials conference. In that appearance, he vowed that if elected, his administration will reflect "the full diversity of this nation" as well as "the full diversity of the Latino communities."

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"Now what I mean [by] full diversity [is] unlike the African American community and many other communities, you're from everywhere," Biden explained. "You're from Europe, from the tip of South America, all the way to our border in Mexico, and the Caribbean. And [of] different backgrounds, different ethnicities, but all Latinos. We're gonna get a chance to do that if we win in November."

Biden attempted to walk back those comments Thursday evening.

"Earlier today, I made some comments about diversity in the African American and Latino communities that I want to clarify," Biden wrote on Twitter. "In no way did I mean to suggest the African American community is a monolith—not by identity, not on issues, not at all.

"Throughout my career," he continued, "I've witnessed the diversity of thought, background, and sentiment within the African American community. It's this diversity that makes our workplaces, communities, and country a better place. My commitment to you is this: I will always listen, I will never stop fighting for the African American community and I will never stop fighting for a more equitable future."

CNN'S JOHN KING APPEARS TO DEFEND BIDEN OVER FORMER VP'S 'DIVERSITY' REMARKS

Those tweets, however, did not address the heated spat he had with CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett, who questioned the former VP about whether he has taken a cognitive test in the preview clip released Wednesday.

"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 on this program, you take a test whether you're taking cocaine or not. What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?" Biden told Barnett, who is Black.

MSNBC only covered Biden's "Are you a junkie?" remark twice throughout the day, once during the 11 a.m. timeslot and once during the 11 p.m. timeslot. CNN avoided the comment altogether.

BIDEN WALKS BACK AFRICAN AMERICAN 'DIVERSITY' REMARKS, LAUDS COMMUNITY'S 'DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT'

Meanwhile, CNN covered Biden's "diversity" comparison once, and that was when anchor John King appeared to defend the Democratic candidate from attacks he had received from President Trump.

"Is it very insulting?" King asked, alluding to Trump's criticism. "Did Joe Biden disparage and insult the Black community?"

Before members of the accompanying panel were able to respond, King seemed to attempt to answer his own question.

"He's trying to make the point, and maybe he didn't make it articulately as he would have liked, [but] I believe the point he was trying to make is that most African Americans overwhelmingly support Democrats, and if you go around the country -- you go to Florida, for example, you have the Cuban American population, or you might have a Puerto Rican population that has moved to Florida that has a different view than, let's say, a Latino in Nevada or Arizona," King elaborated.

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While that was the only time CNN covered that gaffe, MSNBC took a page out of CNN's playbook and completely avoided it. And both networks failed to mention Biden's mea culpa Thursday evening.

CNN and MSNBC, though, had plenty of time to condemn Trump's religiously charged attacks against Biden, accusing his 2020 rival of being "against God."

 

[bw]

there is sort of a daily cleanup of aisle Joe.

Nice.