various media experts and journalists rushed to defend, deny or belittle President Biden’s suggestion that former President Trump’s supporters were “trash,” creating a polarizing news cycle on social media as others called them out for it.

During a virtual Harris campaign call with Voto Latino, Biden took a harsh look at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, which made headlines for insults comedian Tony Hinchiffe made jokes mocks different ethnic groups, and one joke refers to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

“The only garbage I see floating out there are his supporters,” Biden said, adding: “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American.”

The comment quickly went viral, prompting swift condemnation from critics, but many journalists and news organizations rushed to clean up Biden’s mess. The White House added an apostrophe to Biden’s words in a transcript of the speech, showing him saying: “The only bullshit floating out there is that his supporters’ – his – demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it’s not fair-American.” Biden claimed he was specifically talking about the comedian at the Trump rally whose footage in Puerto Rico went viral over the weekend.

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This fiasco resulted in some media members defending Biden, while others pushed back and suggested that situations like this are the reason many Americans distrust the press.

MSNBC host and Politico White House bureau chief Jonathan Lemire claimed the quote was “taken out of context” and shared a transcript similar to the White House’s much-criticized version.

Republican strategist Matt Whitlock accused Lemire of “shameful gaslighting.”

“Jonathan is clearly lying here and spreading a dishonest transcript. You can clearly hear Biden saying, ‘The only bullshit I see out there is his supporters.. and.. and.. the demonization of his supporters,'” Whitlock responded.

Whitlock also released the White House text, comparing it with what he called the “authentic” version.

NPR, ABC’s “Good Morning America” ​​and MSNBC took the “Republicans attack” approach to the story, with NPR running the headline “Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks provide new fodder for Trump and GOP” after ignoring the story at the time of publication. flagship morning show. On ABC, the story was mocked as “Republicans are trying to capture something President Biden said.”

Lemire said on MSNBC that it was a “story on the right” and said Republicans were “trying to paint” that comment as the next “basket of deplorables,” alluding to Hillary Clinton’s famous jab at Trump supporters in 2016.

“Joe Biden clearly doesn’t believe it,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said of the president’s comment.

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ABC’s talk show “The View,” whose hosts are all anti-Trump, mocked Republicans for taking exception to Biden’s comments and said Trump was guilty of making worse remarks about his rival’s supporters.

“I don’t understand why you’re clutching your pearls because you’re trying to make something out of the slip of the tongue,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said. “Did Hillary call these people deplorables? Yeah, okay.”

Left-wing journalist John Harwood, a rabid supporter of the Biden White House who once covered the administration for CNN, complained that “the phony outrage over Biden’s comment is garbage,” while former CNN personality Chris Cillizza was also blasted by far-left media. Keith Olbermann’s personality for that matter.

Cillizza called the White House’s statement “ridiculous,” but Olbermann disagreed.

Olbermann asked he replied.

Current CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston suggested Biden should embrace the comment rather than try to make excuses.

New York Times Journalist Michael Shellenberger also mocked with the headline, “Biden appears to be insulting Trump supporters as ‘trash,’ but quickly tries to explain the point.”

“The New York Times says Biden ‘came out’ only to call Trump voters ‘trash.’ This is disinformation. What Biden said is clearly seen in the video. And now the White House has released the official text, potentially violating the Presidential Records Act.” changed.”

Shellenberger also objected to the Washington Post’s framing; the newspaper’s report was titled: “The White House and Trump’s campaign clash over whether Biden called Trump supporters ‘trash,'” and declared that the president “stumbled” on the remark.

“WaPo calls the ‘garbage’ reference ‘controversial,’ a joke about Puerto Rico’s garbage problem ‘racist remarks,’ and says the ‘garbage’ slur is part of his ‘verbal gaffes,’ whereas ‘Trump has been denigrating his political rivals for years.’ asserts with violent… attacks,” Shellenberger wrote.

another one Washington Post analysis The post was titled: “Did Biden call Trump supporters ‘trash’? That’s turning into an apostrophe.” Writer Aaron Blake said Biden’s explanation for his gaffe was “perfectly plausible.”

“If there’s a lesson to be learned from all of this, it’s that Democrats should probably be glad that the guy who intervened like this isn’t actually cutting his own tickets anymore,” Blake admitted.

“It’s one thing for media outlets to dismiss Biden calling Trump supporters ‘trash’ as ​​a foolish statement by a senile old man who has long been prone to gaffes. But it’s another matter entirely to pretend he didn’t say it or ignore it altogether — Fox News chief political officer analyst Brit Hume wrote on Wednesday: – an example of the media being corrupted by politics.

Fox News writer Guy Benson also criticized this entire difficult process to the press.

“These ‘garbage’ discussions are a perfect encapsulation of why trust in the media is so disastrously low. These people are making bad jokes, especially about Puerto Rico being a trash island, and Trump’s pre-rally pre-show warm-up, insulting comedy.” “They spent DAYS hyperventilating, turning this into THE LEADING STORY in the country, insisting that it was important, that it mobilized votes, and that it was emblematic of the already hot ‘Nazi/Fascist’ narrative.” wrote Benson.

“The sitting President of the United States then openly called those who support his party’s opposition ‘trash’ in the video and the EXACT SAME ‘news’ ‘professionals’ immediately began changing the quote and making excuses to explain why it didn’t matter or completely ignore it,” he continues. did. This is a pure laboratory example of screaming, derogatory, self-discrediting prejudice; presented side by side in a useful and timely manner.”

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