{"id":1466988,"date":"2022-05-06T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466988"},"modified":"2022-05-06T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:29:39","slug":"joe-biden-recalls-the-old-days-of-having-lunch-with-real-segregationists-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-recalls-the-old-days-of-having-lunch-with-real-segregationists-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Recalls The Old Days Of Having Lunch With \u2018Real Segregationists\u2019 \u2013\u00a0Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-recalls-the-old-days-of-having-lunch-with-real-segregationists-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466988&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Untitled-design-11.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden is catching heat for remarking on the old days of having lunch with \u201creal segregationists\u201d during an event in Ohio, but readers should keep in mind that this isn\u2019t the first time Biden has made such comments. In fact, during the 2020 campaign, then-Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) rebuked similar statements made by Biden as being \u201cmisinformed and \u2026 wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on stage in Hamilton, Ohio, with Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) on Friday, the president went off on a tangent regarding the apparent lack of civility in D.C. nowadays that America sees from the halls of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, things have kinda changed since the days when I first got there \u2026\u201d Biden said, Townhall <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2022\/05\/06\/joe-biden-longs-for-the-days-he-could-have-lunch-with-real-segregationists-n2606863\">noted<\/a>. \u201cWe always used to fight like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven back in the old days when we had real segregationists like [James] Eastland and [Strom] Thurmond and all those guys, but [at least] we end up eating lunch together,\u201d the president added. \u201cThings have changed, we\u2019ve gotta bring it back,\u201d he added before complimenting Portman on his character.<\/p>\n<p>His comments can be seen here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden reminisces about &#8220;the old days&#8221; when he used to eat lunch with &#8220;real segregationists.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HxWuQlZJYq\">pic.twitter.com\/HxWuQlZJYq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1522661436840939520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The press secretary for Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), Abigail Marone, wondered why the president thought it was a good idea to make such comments in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is Joe Biden bragging about having lunch with segregationists?\u201d Marone <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abigailmarone\/status\/1522659155307376642?s=20&#038;t=8S4tORZfkXLjIxV_iz_CrQ\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, his vice president had similar thoughts back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Biden securing the Democratic 2020 nomination, Comedy Central\u2019s Trevor Noah ran a segment highlighting that the now-president\u2019s aides had advised him on the campaign trail not to discuss segregationists and his cordial relationships with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden is under fire this evening on comments he made about working alongside segregationist senators in the past,\u201d NBC\u2019s Lester Holt said during the segment, before cutting to NBC reporter Peter Alexander who provided more detail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden recalling his early Senate career, bringing up two segregationist senators, Herman Talmadge and James Eastland, who called African-Americans an inferior race,\u201d Alexander said before quoting Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in a caucus with James O. Eastland,\u201d Biden said. \u201cHe never called me \u2018boy,\u2019 he always called me \u2018son.\u2019 At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn\u2019t agree on much of anything. We got things done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden made the comments despite his aides having long urged him not to discuss his relationships with segregationist senators,\u201d Alexander claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Noah quipped at the time, \u201cYou can\u2019t come out in 2019 and say that these two senators from back in the day were super racist, but at least they were civil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, civil to you maybe. Of course they never called you \u2018boy,\u2019\u201d the host pointed out. \u201cYou\u2019re white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noah also noted that Harris blasted Biden for his comments, saying, \u201cTo coddle the reputations of segregationists, of people who, if they had their way, I would literally not be standing here as a member of the United States Senate, is, I think, um \u2026 It\u2019s just \u2026 It\u2019s misinformed, and it\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Noah bit can be seen here:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>It would seem that Biden still hasn\u2019t received the memo from his aides or his second in command that referencing segregationists in a positive light is not the best move politically.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps comments like that are why candidates like Ohio\u2019s Democratic Senate nominee Tim Ryan have refused to commit to campaigning alongside the president. On Thursday, Ryan told Fox News that he didn\u2019t \u201cwant any distractions\u201d during the campaign while dodging a question about whether or not he would be making any appearances with Biden:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Tim Ryan won&#8217;t commit to campaigning alongside Joe Biden this election season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be the face of this campaign, and I don\u2019t want any distractions.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GKjODSMTXm\">pic.twitter.com\/GKjODSMTXm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ohio Rising Action (@OHrisingaction) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OHrisingaction\/status\/1522260625287692290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is catching heat for remarking on the old days of having lunch with \u201creal segregationists\u201d during an event in Ohio, but readers should keep in mind that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1481928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}