No matter how the November 5th election goes, many of us are likely to never forget the wild and unexpected turn the week before it would take, with talk of a “floating island of garbage” and “garbage supporters” dominating the national conversation, and debates raging about apostrophes and whatnot.
The former “garbage” quote, of course, relates to a “joke” told by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s massive Madison Square Garden rally Sunday, comments which had the Usual Suspects erupting into outrage and suggesting that Hinchcliffe’s remarks were proof that Trump hated minority communities or whatever.
The latter comments were made by our purported fearless leader, President Joe Biden, telling supporters on a “Voto Latino” call Tuesday that Trump’s supporters were “garbage,” something he blurted out just as Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris was taking the stage to give her “unity” speech.
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Naturally, the mainstream media pounced and seized almost immediately to protect Biden and Harris from the GOP’s understandable condemnations. Politico, for starters, was the worst offender, with “reporter” Jon Lemire carrying not just Joe Biden’s water, but his luggage, pillows, stash of aviator sunglasses, and dresser full of gold-plated ice cream scoops to boot, as noticed by RedState’s Teri Christoph:
The full Biden quote from the Zoom tonight, which is being taken out of context: pic.twitter.com/fHT9PvVjiO
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 30, 2024
In another write-up at Politico, Lemire trotted out this excuse:
“Biden, a childhood stutterer who routinely shifts course in mid-sentence and rambles, posted on social media that that was not his meaning.”
Biden’s stutter and the White House’s convenient insertion of an apostrophe in “supporters” in the transcript is what their apologists in the press have been running with for the last 18 hours or so in attempts to shrug this story off as a nothingburger.
As further evidence, we turn to the Washington Post, where the journalists there – still steaming over the paper’s refusal to endorse Harris – are using Biden upstaging his vice president’s big moment and the fallout from it as a way to insert their support of her into the debate:
Biden’s ‘garbage’ comment, parsed https://t.co/qBs8wy8GJA
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 30, 2024
Yes, there was an apparent Zaprudering of sorts at the WaPo of the Biden video in question, with senior political reporter Aaron Blake proclaiming there were three possible meanings behind what Biden said (bolded emphasis Blake’s)
- “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
- “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters’ — his — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
- “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
Later, Blake got the “Biden is often confused” bit out of the way because you know the article wouldn’t be complete without trying to invent some plausible deniability for Biden:
The White House’s version of the transcript initially cited “supporters’,” plural possessive, before it was changed to the singular-possessive “supporter’s” — suggesting this was aimed just at Hinchcliffe.
Which, as noted, is entirely plausible. The context is clearly Biden talking about Hinchcliffe’s remark. Biden often speaks in non sequiturs, failing to finish his thoughts and shifting course midsentence, including in the Delaware comments that preceded his “garbage” remark. It’s basically the entire premise of Dana Carvey’s Biden impersonation on “Saturday Night Live.”
Blake also shared a short history of how he says Trump and his supporters have “repeatedly” tried to make comments made by Biden into the new “deplorables” moment, a history he insinuated should be kept in mind as people considered whether Joe Biden really meant Trump’s supporters were “garbage.”
He summarized it like this, clearly grateful that Biden was not more active on the campaign trail for Harris:
“If there’s a lesson in all of this, it’s that Democrats should probably be glad the guy who keeps stepping in it like this isn’t actually leading their ticket anymore.”
Nah, the actual “lesson” on this is that the media are, as per the norm, just full of hot garbage:
One day apart pic.twitter.com/NilkL4FkwW
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) October 30, 2024
I’m going to need a ruling on this from the press:
Is it “Republicans Pounce”, or is it “Republican’s Pounce”??? https://t.co/fF8ide6S7G— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) October 30, 2024
“It may come down to the placement of an apostrophe, and it’s worth a parse.” https://t.co/nrI9EWTJUK
— Brittany (@bccover) October 30, 2024
The saying about how you don’t hate the media nearly enough definitely applies here.
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