Talk radio this afternoon - a common theme about Joe Biden.

[underpants]

Mods - this is about talk radio and Biden in the general election not the primaries.




So I flipped over a few minutes after the drive time show came on after the "news" at the top of the 5:00 hour. I'm thinking this started about Bloomberg not running for POTUS.
The host said that he thought Joe Biden was a formidable opponent for Trump. He then started taking calls "What do YOU think about Biden as a candidate?"

First caller - fairly normal sounding guy who agreed Biden would be good but that Trump will still win in 2020.
Second caller - there's something "creepy" about Biden.
Third caller- what's with all these pictures of Biden with children? Will the media report on Biden's weird history with children?

At this point I'm thinking - is this really going where I think it is?

Fourth caller - goes on this long slow but calm rant about the "dark secret" "so called elitist types" have in their background. He added (the host let him keep going) that many of these people have been exposed and that more are about to be. He then specifically said that Biden has disturbing images and stories about him that will come out.

Fifth caller (good old boy) - AOC is "dumb as a post" and Biden has some strange things about him.

The host - Jeff Katz - is a typical talk radio hack who repeats the same things listeners have heard all day on this station but I was a bit surprised he fostered this line from callers. He even added after the third caller that "Yes there are a lot of really strange images of Biden 'out there'"

When I got home I googled Joe Biden pedophile. I didn't recognize any of the websites with stories about this. Hesitantly I clicked on images - pictures of Biden at official functions with children there. There's one with, I think, his daughter in a swimsuit.

This must be a thing in the RW world. This radio show clearly doesn't use scripted callers. I guess the callers just happened to be QAnon people or it's really that prevalent out there in their world.

[stonecutter357]

1. Joe Biden 2020 !

[gateley]

2. It astounds me how many Americans are out of touch with reality.

This is what Joe would be in for if he ran. And the Republicans (along with their new PR firm, RUSSIA) get the message out very well. Sigh.

You need to change radio stations!

[underpants]

4. I take one for the cause

It's important, I think, to listen in to their latest twist or nonsense.

I find it mostly amusing - like Rush saying today that with a few more speeches like Trump gave at CPAC he's a shoe in for re-election.

I have been tuning into NPR more lately. The difference is amazing.

[gateley]

8. Thank you, because I really can't --

You've got the right attitude, I let it get to me and my blood pressure soars.

Was Limbaugh being facetious? I'm hoping yes, but fearing no. I'm afraid he's right and an off the rails, narcissistic sociopaths who's destroying the planet and plunging the country into a race/class war will bring out the voters in droves.

I told my best friend thank God I'll be dead before we devolve into Mad Max, and he said 'don't be so sure, we're heading there fast".

You deserve your NPR breaks.

[underpants]

22. No he was being serious

Nadler's document requests are also proof that Nadler knows Trump will be re-elected.

[gateley]

24. Nadler "knows" Trump will be re-elected?

Is that the general belief among those in DC?

[walkingman]

28. Let's face the facts. White America see a lot of themselves in Trump. Kind of disgusting.

[Hortensis]

3. "Common theme" among these perfidious callers, all right.

Let's see if Russia and the Repubs try to spread it farther.

Biden is very well known to and liked by Americans in general, even by a lot of conservatives, and they might decide it could backfire on them.

[underpants]

5. I agree

Bringing up that subject naturally results in some level of cringing by the listener. In normal conversation.

[GulfCoast66]

6. He scares the shit of them.

DU is not reflective of all Americans or even all Democrats. Many here think we should go real radical to beat trump, embrace the whole Democratic Socialism thing. And I respect that. But strongly disagree.

Americans want normallicy. Like representative Cummings so strongly stated at the end of the Cohen hearings.

No one is more normal than Uncle Joe. And with him as our candidate and Obama out pushing his 8 year VP and good friend the Obama coalition would ride to victory.

My opinion. Worth what you paid for it.

[underpants]

7. I fully agree

Joe could almost stand there in a debate and give a shrug and ask "Is this (Trump) really what you want your children to see?"

[PatSeg]

14. The stronger the candidate,

the more vicious and outrageous the attacks. Now I use those attacks like poll numbers in determining who are the more formidable candidates.

I wonder if Joe was in cahoots with Hillary in the Pizzagate scandal!!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. I think you raise a very valid point. Over and above all Trump's bullshit is something

very basic and simple. He has stolen from all Americans, the traditions and the dignity of the presidency. Even I never knew how much it meant to me. So, millions upon millions probably feel the same way. They just want to restore it and act like trump was never there to bastardize it. Joe can turn that around more quickly, IMHO.

[bobGandolf]

33. love to see that....with Kamala as vp n/t

[woodsprite]

35. I think that's a winning ticket! nt

[a kennedy]

9. Love Joe, but agree with some, WE NEED NEW PEOPLE, and A MEW MESSAGE......

[GulfCoast66]

10. Our message and platform in 16 was great.

Too bad few even here read it. Will be better in 20.

And we need a person who can beat Trump which will not be easy. If that means old not new, count me in.

[gateley]

11. We are currently suffering because of new people and their new message.

But I take your point and agree.

I just think that we need to take a breath, get our breathing back to normal, then bring in the new kids on the block. We need to settle down and gat back on track around the world.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. It is such a strange phenomenon - going against ideas that you personally hold - yet

I am, and I totally agree with you. It's a time in history that first and foremost, we have to banish him from our lives forever and to turn things around.

[TwilightZone]

12. They get it from social media.

The "creepy Joe" mantra is a thing on Facebook. It rears its ugly head in pretty much any thread about Biden. So, while they're not scripted callers, they are, essentially, working off the same script.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Facebook needs a dose of Trump in the Access Hollywood tape and reminders about

him forcing himself on women.

[underpants]

23. I wasn't aware of it

Yes it probably is a thing on Facebook.

You are dead on right about them reading from the same script.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. There are horrible videos showing on youtube. I just reported one of them - We all should.

reported...

[bdamomma]

16. Horrible.

Social media can be very dangerous. We have a lot of desperate/sick people out there trying to spew up lies about Democrats and our party.

[LakeArenal]

18. Just goes to show how scared they are of Joe!

Makes me like Joe more!!

Biden: Beto 2020

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Good point LA ! Don't think they can chant their Socialist ! bs at Joe. nt

[nolabear]

21. I'd expect Joe to take this head on. It's his only choice. They're scared and want to destroy him.

He has to be unapologetic, call the on their bullshit, and if anyone is paid off to falsely accuse him of anything he'll have to go on full attack mode. Muster all the full throated support possible. Sue the fuck out of them.

They can do this to any male candidate. They can destroy anyone who isn't willing to meet them head on. As for anyone he's hugged or gotten up close to, he has to be able to say "It never crossed my mind that I was making anyone uncomfortable, but I get that these days it's a good idea to be really sensitive to people's personal space. Thanks for letting me know." And drop it. And if they do it again say the same thing. And drop it. Go to policy. let his lawyers or supporters fight and make 45's life a living hell.

God this is going to be a nightmare, but I think he, or anyone, can handle it if they are righteous, outraged and let the whole organization around them fight the fight while they state their position and move on to policy.

[lunasun]

25. RWers see stuff like link below and thinks almost everybody believes this now & look at how it is

at the top of book sales, so must be something to it and then add hearing it over and over on RW radio, web, youtube etc
Propaganda and willfully ignorant meet
They probably hate any children that are not their own and anyone spending time with children not their heir seems creepy to them and weird cuz who would do that
Perhaps many of both sexes are closet pervs or repressed by extreme religious beliefs and so they add the pedo stuff in for their own thrills when they think about it , plus they can add another thing / person to hate which imo they are already addicted to hating
Gotta move on to something new
Talking about new gossip of Biden being a pedo may be more titillating than the same old refugees or Muslim terrorists stuff
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211888767

[aeromanKC]

26. But yet they worship a guy with his hands on his daughters hips half naked in a miniskirt on a bed

and who brags about walking into the dressing room of teen pageant girls and tells a little 10 year old girl coming off an elevator I'm going to date her in 10 years.

Projection. It's always projection with Trump and his MAGAt Deplorables.

[Merlot]

27. Why are you so sure the radio show doesn't use scripted callers?

This sounds like a co-ordinated effort, definatly on the part of the callers, possibly on the part of the radio show.

Mark Maron did a wonderful episode on his show where he meets an old time radio talk show host - he was an actual host here in LA for a while I believe. Anyhow, the host also did the voices of the callers.

All those "callers" could have been the same person, or a team. When you see how sequential the calls were, and how they worked their way into the topic, seems to perfect to be an accident.

[underpants]

38. Well it could have been a coordinated effort that's true

There is a chance the host had people lined up to take this in a specific direction given that the topic went from Bloomberg to Biden and then went off the trail a bit about Kampala (and of course AOC) but I don't think so. Just my Spidey-sense from listening to talk and sports talk radio. Rush definitely uses scripted calls - I could go on about that.

[TeamPooka]

29. You Googled 'Joe Biden pedophile?' Really? I've a Bridge in Brooklyn you may be interested in buying

[TwilightZone]

30. He googled it to find out the source.

Not because he believed it.

That seemed rather self-evident in context.

[TeamPooka]

31. The source is Bullshit Mountain.

[TwilightZone]

41. Well, no shit.

What do you think the point of the OP was?

Reading is fundamental.

[TeamPooka]

43. Seems like the point of the OP was to share a right wing conspiracy theory

[underpants]

36. Yes exactly. Thank you.

[underpants]

37. Yes I did.

I listen in to talk radio for amusement as well as using it as an insight to what (in the world) they are being told. I often check to see where their story lines are coming from and to see how popular something is with them.

As I said is was hesitant but hey it's what I do.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

32. it's to dull the Epstein + Trump story

Remember, everything Trump and the GOPers do, they accuse their opponents of doing. The RW propaganda machine tries to be pre-emptive in its strikes.

[bobGandolf]

34. Going after Biden

The dirty deeds gang, see also Russia, have a nasty attack planned against Biden should he run. Ask yourself why.....I believe they are very worried he would wallop T-rump, and want to knock him out of the race.

[Arazi]

39. Yes. Biden with children is a thing with the right wing

This will be the attack point with him.

Personally I like Biden as a candidate because we are going to desperately need a President after Traitor with a strong institutional memory to restore norms.

Congress will need to enact laws as well to ensure another President can't ever violate their oath of office with as much devastation as Traitor.

Biden with a strong young VP would be a powerful challenger which is exactly why Republicans are fabricating the worst possible allegations about him this early

[DontBooVote]

40. I cannot for the life of me figure out why you would be listening to and

subjecting yourself to that bullshit.

[CrispyQ]

42. There is no way to have any kind of discourse with people who believe that Democrats eat babies.

Or that Democrats are running a child pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza shop, which IIRC, was reported it didn't even have a frickin' basement. One of the pundits on MSNBC said that these people are Zombies & beyond saving & I agree.