For anyone who wants to see video of the Biden AFT town hall moment sparking faux(?) outrage [View all]

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Tue May 28, 2019, 10:34 PM - Edit history (1)

tonight -- where he tells a young girl who'd asked him a question that he bets she's as bright as she is good-looking -- I want to put that comment in the full context of a SEVEN MINUTE encounter, with that remark toward the end of it.

You'll see that minutes BEFORE he tells her that, he praises her for her poise and her courage, AND he tells her HE HOPES SHE'LL REMEMBER HIM WHEN SHE'S PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.



This is the full video of the town hall posted by AFT on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/AFTunion/videos/462780420932283/?s=1470263233&v=e&sfns=mo

where Biden's encounter with this girl, his answer to her question, and her introducing her to the media, lasts OVER 7 MINUTES, from about 44 minutes into the videos to just over 51 minutes in.

Look at ALL of this.

Biden's critics have used a tiny video clip to try to make it seem as if he just walked up to the kid and said those words, which were instead toward the end of the encounter, and after he contrasted her poise to his own problems with stuttering at the same age.

I'd originally linked to a tweet by a RWer I'd normally never link to, just because it contains the very short video clip people are bitching about and I difn't have time to go through the entire town hall video to get the exact time.

I decided to take the time.

This was the misleading tweet from RWer Ryan Saavedra:

Link to tweet

Note, please, that even in that clip, the audience of teachers is laughing and applauding.

Note, too, the ecstatic look on that girl's face as Biden introduces her to the journalists covering the event.

And THIS is what some on the right, and unfortunately also on the left, want to attack Biden for.

Shame on them.