Democrats and their media allies are in full-on damage control mode after Joe Biden referred to supporters of Donald Trump as “garbage.”
Not long after the president made the revolting comments Tuesday evening, left-wing propagandists masquerading as journalists went to work distorting Biden’s smear in an apparent attempt to limit its impact on Kamala Harris’ flailing presidential campaign. Needless to say, their whitewashing of the controversy is nothing short of incredible.
Politico’s Johnathan Lemire contributed to the the wave of dishonest coverage with an article on Tuesday night portraying the scandal as another “Republicans pounce!” incident. Titled, “Biden sparks a firestorm on the right over ‘garbage,’” Lemire claimed in the piece’s opening paragraph that Biden only “appeared” to call Trump supporters “garbage,” before immediately following with the note: “though the president and his aides vehemently denied that was his intention.”
The outlet’s “Politico Playbook” writers exemplified their blatant partisanship on Wednesday by expressing greater worry about the comment’s impact on Harris’ campaign than the the sitting president villifying half the country as human scum. They also dismissed Republicans’ concerns about the incendiary nature of Biden’s remarks.
“You can certainly debate whether the comment genuinely has the power to move votes in the final week or if it’s a Beltway media obsession kindled by people who just days ago were telling people we have to stop getting so offended all the time,” they wrote.
CBS News was quick to follow the lead of the White House, which apparently gramatically altered
