{"id":461370,"date":"2021-04-29T06:20:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461370"},"modified":"2021-04-29T06:20:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:20:39","slug":"uncle-tim-trends-on-twitter-after-tim-scotts-rebuttal-to-bidens-sotu-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uncle-tim-trends-on-twitter-after-tim-scotts-rebuttal-to-bidens-sotu-address\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Uncle Tim\u2019 Trends On Twitter After Tim Scott\u2019s Rebuttal To Biden\u2019s SOTU Address"},"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\">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%2Funcle-tim-trends-on-twitter-after-tim-scotts-rebuttal-to-bidens-sotu-address%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=461370&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4033.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The phrase \u201cUncle Tim\u201d trended on Twitter Wednesday night after Senator Tim Scott, the Senate\u2019 lone black Republican, delivered the GOP\u2019s rebuttal to President Biden\u2019s State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1966, when the sitting president has delivered his State of the Union address on the condition of the nation to a joint session of Congress, a member of the opposing political party has delivered a rebuttal that is broadcast directly afterward. This year, Republicans tapped Scott for the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just heard President Biden\u2019s first address to Congress. Our president seems like a good man,\u201d Scott said in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=309&#038;v=FV4MlLyZWZA&#038;feature=emb_logo\">speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scott went on to criticize Biden for failing to deliver on the unity he promised Americans and declared that Biden and Democrats are \u201cpulling us further apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis speech was full of good words. But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. He promised to unite a nation. To lower the temperature. To govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted. That was the pitch. You just heard it again. But our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes. We need policies and progress that bring us closer together,\u201d the South Carolina Republican continued.<\/p>\n<p>Scott expressed gratitude for the \u201cstring of opportunities that are only possible here in America\u201d but cautioned that \u201cthis\u00a0past year, I\u2019ve watched COVID attack every rung of the ladder that helped me up,\u201d including families losing parents and grandparents too early, and\u00a0churches and schools being locked down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get called \u201cUncle Tom\u201d and the N-word \u2014 by \u201cprogressives.\u201d By liberals,\u201d Scott added.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately after Scott\u2019s speech, \u201cUncle Tim\u201d began trending on Twitter nationally, aided by several verified accounts that tweeted out the phrase in reference to the senator.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.962962962963\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In my defense I actually said \u201cUncle TIM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he was talking about his nephews!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1387598235196436483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.6214285714286\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While saying this, UNCLE Tim Scott said America is not a racist society. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4JSqgiH0Sx\">https:\/\/t.co\/4JSqgiH0Sx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr. Vegas (@MrVegasMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrVegasMusic\/status\/1387601315375747073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.448028673835\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tim Scott does NOT represent black people. He knows he is not liked, admired or respected in the greater black community. Saying there is no racism in AM is ignorant. It&#8217;s part of the Republican lie. Am&#8217;s racist are just loving Uncle Tim..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charmaine (@charmage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charmage\/status\/1387602841511026689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.5822784810127\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not all skinfolk are kinfolk<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erin Maye Quade (@ErinMayeQuade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErinMayeQuade\/status\/1387595041670107137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.480938416422\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Scott insisting America is not racist but our healing from racism isn\u2019t finished and he\u2019s been called racist names.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Senator, anybody calls you the N-word is a friend of Trump\u2019s. We progressives refer to you as a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rnSpvOQS9x\">https:\/\/t.co\/rnSpvOQS9x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithOlbermann\/status\/1387613964473876482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSen @TimScottSC is uncle Tom\u2019ing it for his life. So sad. South Carolina should be so ashamed,\u201d wrote comedian and\u00a0television personality Scott Nevins in a now-deleted tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Nevins was subsequently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1387614353159954433\">criticized<\/a> by several high-profile users and called out for his past use of the term \u201cUncle Tom,\u201d including at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottNevins\/status\/1029434525334429696\">least<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottNevins\/status\/971897619826921473\">twice<\/a> in reference to former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson.<\/p>\n<p>The online aspersions against Scott come just days after the Washington Post was criticized for publishing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/23\/tim-scott-often-talks-about-his-grandfather-cotton-theres-more-tale\/\">fact-check<\/a> of Scott\u2019s claim that his family \u201cwent from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.\u201d Scott made the remark at the Republican National Convention last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Post called Scott\u2019s version of his family history \u201ca tidy story packaged for political consumption\u201d and implied it was misleading because Scott\u2019s great-great-grandfather once owned land in South Carolina. Scott has said on several occasions that his grandfather did not know how to read and write.<\/p>\n<p>In his State of the Union speech, Biden urged Americans to receive a coronavirus vaccine. The president entered the House chamber wearing a mask even though he is fully vaccinated. Biden also emphasized free college and police reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a giant opportunity to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice. Real justice. And with the plans outlined tonight, we have a real chance to root out systemic racism that plagues America and American lives in other ways,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>\u00a0member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase \u201cUncle Tim\u201d trended on Twitter Wednesday night after Senator Tim Scott, the Senate\u2019 lone black Republican, delivered the GOP\u2019s rebuttal to President Biden\u2019s State of the Union address.Since &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276977,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4033.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Uncle Tim\u2019 Trends On Twitter After Tim Scott\u2019s Rebuttal To Biden\u2019s SOTU Address","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4033.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Uncle Tim\u2019 Trends On Twitter After Tim Scott\u2019s Rebuttal To Biden\u2019s SOTU Address","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461370","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}