{"id":2361697,"date":"2024-10-30T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-propagandists-launch-op-to-hide-bidens-garbage-smear\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T19:30:41","slug":"media-propagandists-launch-op-to-hide-bidens-garbage-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-propagandists-launch-op-to-hide-bidens-garbage-smear\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Propagandists Launch Op To Hide Biden&#8217;s &#8216;Garbage&#8217; Smear"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fmedia-propagandists-launch-op-to-hide-bidens-garbage-smear%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=2361697&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>Democrats \u2063are currently engaged in damage control following President Joe Biden&#8217;s controversial remark referring to Donald Trump&#8217;s\u2063 supporters as\u2063 &#8220;garbage.&#8221; After Biden&#8217;s\u2062 comments,\u2063 media outlets aligned with the \u2062political left attempted to downplay the incident, framing \u200cit as a\u200d misinterpretation of his\u2064 words, despite Biden&#8217;s aides denying that\u200d he intended to \u200bdehumanize Trump supporters. Articles from Politico and CBS News, among others, reflect a bias that seems more concerned with\u200d the \u200dimplications\u2064 for\u200d Kamala Harris&#8217; presidential campaign than with the nature of\u2064 Biden&#8217;s comments.\u2063 Some journalists, \u200clike NPR&#8217;s \u200bDavid\u200c Folkenflik, have\u200c speculated \u200bthat Biden&#8217;s stutter may \u200dhave \u200dcontributed to the misunderstanding of his remarks. Meanwhile,\u2063 The Washington Post presented the situation as ambiguous, raising questions about whether \u2064Biden indeed made the comments attributed to him. The discourse around this incident highlights a clear division in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotlands-first-minister-nicola-sturgeon-resigns-over-controversy-related-to-trans-policies\/\" title=\"Scotland&#039;s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon Resigns Over Controversy Related to Trans Policies\">media responses<\/a> and emphasizes the challenges\u200b faced \u2063by \u200dthe Biden administration as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-senate-rivals-move-to-the-center-in-independent-minded-swing-state\/\" title=\"Arizona Senate candidates shift towards the center in independent-minded state.\">election\u200d season approaches<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Democrats and their media allies are in full-on damage control mode after Joe Biden referred to supporters of Donald Trump as &ldquo;garbage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Not long after the president made the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/29\/bidens-closing-argument-for-kamala-harris-all-of-trumps-voters-are-human-garbage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revolting comments<\/a> Tuesday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">left-wing propagandists masquerading<\/a> as journalists went to work distorting Biden&rsquo;s smear in an apparent attempt to limit its impact on Kamala Harris&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-progressive-frontrunners-to-replace-justice-stephen-breyer\/\" title=\"Meet the Progressive Frontrunners To Replace Justice Stephen Breyer\">flailing presidential campaign<\/a>. Needless to say, their whitewashing of the controversy is nothing short of incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Politico&rsquo;s Johnathan Lemire contributed to the the wave of dishonest coverage with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/10\/29\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/biden-sparks-garbage-firestorm-00186187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> on Tuesday night portraying the scandal as another &ldquo;Republicans pounce!&rdquo; incident. Titled, &ldquo;Biden sparks a firestorm on the right over &lsquo;garbage,&#8217;&rdquo; Lemire claimed in the piece&rsquo;s opening paragraph that Biden only &ldquo;appeared&rdquo; to call Trump supporters &ldquo;garbage,&rdquo; before immediately following with the note: &ldquo;though the president and his aides vehemently denied that was his intention.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The outlet&rsquo;s &ldquo;Politico Playbook&rdquo; writers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ellencarmichael\/status\/1851596258227413369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exemplified<\/a> their blatant partisanship on Wednesday by expressing greater worry about the comment&rsquo;s impact on Harris&rsquo; campaign than the  the sitting president villifying half the country as human scum. They also dismissed Republicans&rsquo; concerns about the incendiary nature of Biden&rsquo;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can certainly debate whether the comment genuinely has the power to move votes in the final week or if it&rsquo;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,&rdquo; they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/10\/30\/biden-ex-machina-00186215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News was quick to follow the lead of the White House, which apparently gramatically <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/30\/us-news\/bidens-garbage-comment-due-to-missing-apostrophe-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">altered<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2024\/10\/29\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-a-campaign-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transcript<\/a> of Biden&rsquo;s remarks to make it seem like the president didn&rsquo;t publicly dehumanize Trump supporters. Known for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/21\/cbs-news-release-the-full-kamala-harris-interview-transcript-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">allegedly distorting<\/a> its &ldquo;60 Minutes&rdquo; interview with Harris, the outlet played word games with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bidens-response-to-garbage-joke-about-puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a>, which reads, &ldquo;&lsquo;Supporters&rsquo; or &lsquo;supporter&rsquo;s&rsquo;? Biden comments about Trump &lsquo;garbage&rsquo; rally anger the GOP.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1851473250271834430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik decided to play doctor and mind reader for a day, telling his X followers he &ldquo;listened to [Biden&rsquo;s comments] several times&rdquo; and came away with the conclusion that the president&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/03\/25\/bidens-stutter-isnt-a-problem-but-banning-people-from-asking-about-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supposed<\/a> &ldquo;stutter&rdquo; problem is to blame. Politico&rsquo;s Lemire made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/10\/29\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/biden-sparks-garbage-firestorm-00186187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">similar<\/a> appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think you have an octogenarian with a stutter for whom clarity is an increasing challenge,&rdquo; Folkenfilk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidfolkenflik\/status\/1851442508422611216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &ldquo;Precisely why Biden was eased from race for reelection. Really don&rsquo;t sense he&rsquo;s calling Trump supporters garbage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post also tried to downplay Biden&rsquo;s &ldquo;garbage&rdquo; comment &mdash; which is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gabegutierrez\/status\/1851428125210558649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on video<\/a> &mdash; by effectively framing the smear as something that may or may not have happened. The &ldquo;democracy dies in darkness&rdquo; crowd ran with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/10\/29\/biden-trump-supporters-garbage-puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a>, &ldquo;White House, Trump campaign clash over whether Biden called Trump supporters &lsquo;garbage.&#8217;&rdquo; In the piece, reporter Patrick Svetik suggested, similarly to Folkenflik and Lemire, that the comment came as Biden &ldquo;stumbled over his words&rdquo; to disagree with a joke made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe&rsquo;s during Trump&rsquo;s Sunday Madison Square Garden rally.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s how the Democrat propaganda outlet known as The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/29\/us\/politics\/biden-garbage-trump-supporters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">characterized<\/a> the matter: &ldquo;Biden Appears to Insult Trump Supporters as &lsquo;Garbage,&rsquo; but Quickly Tries to Clarify.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The View&rsquo;s&rdquo; Whoopi Goldberg took her outlandish commentary a step further, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1851651871150055654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a> on Wednesday that Hillary Clinton was ultimately &ldquo;right&rdquo; when she called Trump supporters &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/30\/calling-republicans-deplorable-was-a-scandal-eight-years-ago-now-its-the-democrats-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deplorables<\/a>&rdquo; during the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>WHOOPI: I don&#8217;t get why Trump supporters are so upset Biden called them garbage!<\/p>\n<p>ALSO WHOOPI: Hillary was right to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-go-to-war-against-joe-bidens-450k-payouts-to-border-crossers-civilizational-homicide\/\" title=\"Republicans Go to War Against Joe Biden&#039;s 0K Payouts to Border Crossers: &#039;Civilizational Homicide&#039;\">call half<\/a> the country deplorable. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ibCqSVOn02\">pic.twitter.com\/ibCqSVOn02<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1851651871150055654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and media allies are scrambling after Biden called Trump supporters &#8220;garbage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2361698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Biden-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7380,3620,4188,5894,4488],"class_list":["post-2361697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-misinformation","tag-biden","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-propaganda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Biden-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361697","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}