{"id":2195277,"date":"2024-03-09T09:21:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T14:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-again-forced-to-alter-transcript-following-bidens-lincoln-riley-blunder\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T14:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T19:35:40","slug":"white-house-again-forced-to-alter-transcript-following-bidens-lincoln-riley-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-again-forced-to-alter-transcript-following-bidens-lincoln-riley-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"White House again forced to alter transcript following Biden\u2019s \u2018Lincoln\u2019 Riley blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fwhite-house-again-forced-to-alter-transcript-following-bidens-lincoln-riley-blunder%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=2195277&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--><p>President Joe Biden\u2018s staff had to alter the official transcript of his State of the Union speech following a high-profile gaffe, repeating a pattern that\u2019s occurring with some frequency in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the speech\u2019s defining and most bizarre moments, Biden held up a button given to him by firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA). The sticker read \u201cSay Her Name, Laken Riley,\u201d in reference to a Georgia college student who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant.<\/p>\n<p>Greene verbally challenged Biden before the speech to mention Riley and shouted \u201cSay her name!\u201d again when he began speaking about immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The president took up the challenge but appeared to say \u201cLincoln\u201d Riley, the name of a college football coach, instead of Laken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn innocent young woman who was killed,\u201d Biden continued, \u201cby an illegal. That\u2019s right. But how many thousands of people are being killed by legals?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the transcript was released the next day, it twice crossed out the name \u201cLanken\u201d to replace it with Laken.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of debate on what Biden actually said during his exchange with Rep MTG during last night\u2019s State of the Union when she shouted at him about Laken Riley. Here is the official White House transcript. pic.twitter.com\/tLYNwHFYNz<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tia Mitchell, AJC\u2019s Washington Correspondent (@ajconwashington) March 8, 2024 While the blunder could play into Republican criticisms about Biden\u2019s age and mental acuity, his use of the term \u201cillegal\u201d to describe the murder suspect upset progressive Democrats. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), for example, tweeted, \u201cNo human being is illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That part of Biden\u2019s remarks was not altered in the transcript.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden administration aides have made other corrections to his words in recent weeks. For example, on March 1, Biden met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office and mentioned a new airdrop program for Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of correctly naming the embattled enclave, Biden twice called it Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the coming days, we\u2019re going to join with our friends in Jordan and others in providing airdrops of \u2014 of additional food and supplies into Ukraine [Gaza] and seek to continue to open up other avenues into Ukraine [Gaza], including the possibility of a marine corridor to deliver large amounts of humanitarian assistance,\u201d reads the White House transcript.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about Biden\u2019s memory dominated headlines on Feb. 8, when special counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report on the president\u2019s handling of classified documents described him as an \u201celderly man with a poor memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a hastily arranged press conference that night, Biden defended himself from accusations of memory loss but committed another blunder by confusing the presidents of Mexico and Egypt. That, too, was corrected in the transcript.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that \u2014 as you know, initially, the President of Mexico [Egypt], El-Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in,\u201d the transcript reads. \u201cI talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And on Feb. 4, just four days prior, Biden confused French President Emmanuel Macron with his long-deceased predecessor Francois Mitterrand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Mitterrand [Macron], from Germany \u2014 I mean, from France looked at me and said \u2014 said, \u2018You know, what \u2014 why \u2014 how long you back for?&#8217;\u201d reads the transcript.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Biden made a similar mix-up during the same week, twice confusing former German Chancellor Angela Merkel with her predecessor Helmut Kohl, which was not corrected in transcripts.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has contacted with White House with questions about the transcription process.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the mispronunciation during last night\u2019s State of the Union address and another slip in which Biden added Moscow to a list of cities with affordable prescriptions, Democrats appeared pleased with the speech and told Biden it would quiet questions about his age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody\u2019s going to talk about cognitively impaired now,\u201d Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said as Biden was leaving the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>Biden replied with a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kind of wish sometimes I was cognitively impaired,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2018s staff had to alter the official transcript of his State of the Union speech following a high-profile gaffe, repeating a pattern that\u2019s occurring with some frequency in 2024. In one of the speech\u2019s defining and most bizarre moments, Biden held up a button given to him by firebrand Rep. 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