‘Not News!’ Lawrence O’Donnell Slams News Media For ‘Stupid’ Coverage Of Biden ‘Garbage’ Comment
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell slammed the “news media” for “panicked” and “stupid campaign coverage” of President Joe Biden’s “garbage” remark, supposedly referring to Trump supporters, by accusing journalists of refusing “to understand English grammar.”
During a Zoom call with Latino leaders on Tuesday, Biden stumbled over his words while reacting to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s Sunday set at a former President Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, where Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Biden remarked: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters– his– his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable.” Despite the White House’s release of a transcript, with a noted apostrophe to pin Biden’s comment as a singular directed at Hinchcliffe, and the president’s own statement, MAGA supporters pounced.
On Wednesday night, O’Donnell unleashed on the “worst reporters” who he accused of trying “to create a controversy” out of the moment while ignoring Trump, who he said “uses Hitler’s language constantly.”
The poisonous American candidate for president who uses Hitler’s language constantly and calls Democrats garbage, that was not news. But the very same news media that ignored all the times Donald Trump has called American citizens and American voters scum and garbage actually tried to turn Joe Biden’s use of the word garbage into a controversial news story today.
To do so, they had to refuse to listen to the actual sentence Joe Biden spoke. They had to refuse to look at the written words of that sentence. They had to refuse to understand English grammar. They had to refuse to understand what a singular possessive is. They had to refuse to understand what apostrophe ‘s’ means. They had to refuse to remember what they learned in elementary school about the English language.
They can do that because this campaign is being covered by some of the best reporters I have ever seen and by some of the worst reporters I have ever seen. And the worst of them actually cried to create a controversy today and tried to equate what President Biden said last night to what the man he was condemning said in Madison Square Garden. And those reporters know that it’s false, but it is the kind of false narrative that panicked, stupid campaign coverage exists to amplify.
Not one of the reporters who got excited about this today asked Donald Trump to name the good things that Adolf Hitler did, after Donald Trump was quoted by his White House chief of staff John Kelly saying quote Hitler did some good things. The terrible campaign reporters and commentators covering this campaign are completely exploitable by Donald Trump and Donald Trump knows it, which is why Donald Trump, the stupidest candidate ever to run for president climbed into a garbage truck today to try to draw more attention.
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