Biden Unsuccessfully Attempts to Clarify Racist Comments

RUSH: This is a study today in media, how the economic news today has been presented, how it is presented in the news. Joe Biden has attempted to clarify his remarks, his handlers have attempted to clarify what Biden said. He clarified his answer to the question from the Hispanic reporter during an interview on Wednesday that was hosted by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists.

Here's Biden's attempt to fix - well, we may want to go to the audio sound bites for this in which case I need to -- yeah. Let's start here at the top. In order to do this justice, we need to start at the top of the audio sound bites. So let's go to back to Wednesday, National Association of Black Journalists, National Association of Hispanic Journalists' virtual convention. This is NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talking to Biden. "Will you reengage with Cuba?"

BIDEN: Yes. 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.

RUSH: How do you walk that back? How do you clarify that? Well, they tried, ladies and gentlemen, and they just dug themselves in deeper. Before that, though -- (interruption) Do you mean this? You think this story didn't take off? (interruption) Mr. Snerdley just sent me a little note here via our internal note system that is encrypted both ways -- only he and I can read these notes. He said: "This Biden story didn't take off until you did it. Then after you framed it, it took off like a rocket."

Well, this is on Wednesday. At 12:15 Trump comes out of the White House and starts talking about it, and we were convinced that Trump might have heard it or been told about it because somebody there was listening. Well, we were the first to make a big deal out of it. It had to be out there all morning, and nobody had done much with it. The media wasn't gonna do anything with it. They're just sitting on it. Hope it goes by. Well, okay. You may be right. It didn't take off until we hit it. After we framed it, then it took off like a rocket and we're now on day two of it.

So here is a montage of media attempting to defend Biden. Remember what he's just said: By the way, what you all know, most people don't know, but you people, you Hispanics, you know this, unlike the African-American community, the Latino community's an incredibly diverse community, unlike the African-American community. Latinos have incredibly different attitudes about different things.

So we make a big deal of it, we force the Drive-Bys to have to go out there and try to position this and explain it and defend Plugs, tell us what he meant, and here a montage of that.

MARY BRUCE: Biden's campaign insists he was referring to diversity of attitudes among Latinos.

KRISTEN WELKER: An advisor adding: of course Biden knows the black community is not a monolith.

STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE: The African-American community, by and large, very loyal and has been well served by the Democratic Party. Inartful or not, I think that's what Vice President Biden was saying.

ABBY PHILLIP: Biden is not the candidate who is the most fluent candidate on issues of race.

SCOTT BOLDEN: The African-American community and Latinos know him. Whatever gaffes he's making are not intentional, they certainly aren't intentionally racist.

RUSH: This is the thing. This guy is a segregationist. He goes back to the early days in his career which was the heyday of the Democrat segregation. But see how this works? He gets to go out and say things that are blatantly racist, and here come the media, "Oh, no, no, no. He doesn't really mean that. No, no, no, no, no, no. Whatever gaffes he's making, they're not intentional. They certainly aren't intentionally racist."

But yet they are because there's so many. This guy can't talk about people without talking about race. How about the time that he is walking in a mall somewhere, somebody asked him a question, and he starts going off on Indians and how you can't go into a 7-Eleven without talking to a bunch of Indians 'cause it's only Indians in there? Not Native American Indians, but from the country, from the nation India.

And people, "Well, you know, that's just Joe." like this montage here. "The African-American community by and large very loyal, has been well served by the Democrat Party." No, they haven't. That's Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. She's the former mayor of Baltimore. No, no. The African-American community has not been well served by Democrat Party. You may be, as a leader in the African-American community, yeah, you get a seat at the table, Ms. Blake, but the rank-and-file black population has not been well served by the Democrats. That's the whole point here.

But listen to this. She says the "African-American community, very loyal, well served by Democrat Party. Inartful or not, I think that's what Vice President Biden was saying." What? No. What he was saying is that there isn't any diversity in the African-American community like there is in the Latino community. What he said was that African-Americans, they talk alike, they think like alike, have the same attitudes, there isn't any difference in them.

How she can come along and say that what he really said was that the Democrat Party has been well served, African-Americans have been well served by Democrat Party, I mean, these are people reaching for something that isn't there. And it was Abby Phillip who said, "Biden is not the candidate who's the most fluent candidate on issues of race." They just can't bring themselves to admit that he is what he is.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Okay. Let's go to Biden's tweets that attempt to get himself out of the mess that he created on Wednesday. He said: "Earlier today, I made some comments about diversity in the African American and Latino communities that I want to clarify. In no way did I mean to suggest the African American community is a monolith."

Now, my friends, Mr. Snerdley may be exaggerating about the role this program played, but I tell you that was a prominent word in my analysis all day when this happened, Wednesday and Thursday, primarily yesterday. It was Wednesday when Biden made this gaffe, not Thursday.

He said, "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 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."

So those are the clarifying comments. Then he didn't stop there. He went further. "Now when I mean full diversity, unlike African American community, many other communities, you're from everywhere. From Europe. From the tip of South America, all the way to our border and Mexico -"

So he says Latinos are from far more places. Hispanics are from far more places than African-Americans. What an idiot thing to say.


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