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Are you kidding me? I first heard the audio quote before I searched for a news article. I've heard the audio quote multiple times. It sounds just as bad as it reads. A media "fabrication" lol? Biden said what he said, period. That's fact. It reads exactly as Biden said it.



Most are giving him a long leash in ascribing *maybe* that's what he meant to say. And that's a storybook long leash. :P Not what he actually said. He gaffed. He faux-pas'd. He stuck two feet in his mouth. I agree with you though that it's likely wrong to ascribe evil intent to Biden. But I do think what he said represents an underlying out of touch racist ignorance.

Um. Joph. Not to be obvious or anything, but how exactly do you expect myself or you (or anyone for that matter) to know if there is a "groudswell" of anger over this issue? Wouldn't we become aware of such a thing solely because it's reported on the news?

If no one polls anyone on it, how will we know? If no reporters run around the "black community" asking people how they feel, how will we know? More importantly, if they don't do those things and don't report them, will there even *be* a groundswell of anger?

Are you seriously naive enough to believe that how the mainstream media reports on something doesn't have a huge effect on how that thing is percieved by the masses? I'll repeat again. I still have not had time to really check up on how this has been reported, but I'll ask you (and anyone else who's interested): How is the coverage of this issue on ABC, CBS, and NBC? Are they hitting the issue over and over? Does it appear on their "teaser" leadins during commercial breaks? Do they have coverage consisting of angry black men pissed off about Bidden's statement? Or is it purely covering folks like Sharpton magically making him well by letting him interview with him? How many reporters are scouring the streets looking for and interviewing people upset with Biden's statement?


That's a critical difference. When the media does all of those things, it'll cause that "groundswell" you talked about, or at least make the public aware of it. If we don't know about one, is it because it doesn't exist? Or because it simply isn't being actively covered?...





Hence why all my posts have contained predictions and speculation. Hence why I've simply been asking people to look at the media coverage and determine for themselves if it's been biased. I don't know yet. I'm simply predicting how I think it'll be covered (or not covered) based on past events. I could be wrong. I'd *love* to be wrong. But so far, I haven't seen you post anything saying "Oh yeah! NBC just ripped Biden a new one. They've got round the clock coverage of protests and calls for his resignation!!!".

So, not having seen any coverage yet, I'm kinda leaning towards "tepid" as the best description of how the media is treating this issue. Which would prove my prediction right. I'll check over the weekend and see. And heck! I did predict it would be pretty much gone from the mainstream by monday, so there's that as well...