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applegrove

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16. Well then it was vague. There was a problem with coprehention. Biden

Sat Dec 7, 2019, 04:00 AM

Dec 2019

did not lie as "you sent your son there" happened when Obama was president and the reporter was vague, perhaps intentionally so, and Biden assumed the wrong president was being referenced. So no lie.But i bet ya the GOP use coprehension games to attack our candidates. Maybe being intentionally vague is a thing with the GOP now. I speak in a vague way as i have conduction aphasia. It was used against me to lead to misleading narratives by a gang of psychopaths. Joe heard a very vague question and assumed more than usual (understanding vagueness requires more assumptions by its very nature) and assumed the reporter was talking about Obama. You said Joe was wrong and he was not. It was a misunderstanding.

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What in the world do the reporters want Joe Biden to say? They are complaining about him [View all] napi21 Dec 2019 OP

Well then, they are idiots. LakeArenal Dec 2019 #1

They are baiting him. They want a whole variety of statements so applegrove Dec 2019 #2

if I were joe evertonfc Dec 2019 #3

+1 nt JoeOtterbein Dec 2019 #4

Just pivoting sets them up to claim equivalence -- which is FALSE. pnwmom Dec 2019 #12

That may work in the general election customerserviceguy Dec 2019 #29

Or Joe could just find... JoeOtterbein Dec 2019 #5

Thanks for posting that. It's one of my favorite songs! nt napi21 Dec 2019 #33

The press abets the GOP in these cases. Scurrilous Dec 2019 #6

I suppose you're all right, but I heard that banter on MSNBC, not exactly a RW hangout! n/t napi21 Dec 2019 #7

MSNBC regularly frames shit the wrong way BannonsLiver Dec 2019 #22

Instead of Biden saying, "No one says that" -- which isn't true, since the whole RW media is saying pnwmom Dec 2019 #8

The man said: applegrove Dec 2019 #9

That's a fair point. InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2019 #10

Not true. Peter Schweitzer, the best-selling author of Clinton Cash, makes the claim pnwmom Dec 2019 #11

His first statement is wrong. Maybe the man mispoke and then corrected himself. applegrove Dec 2019 #14

According to Schweitzer's telling, the "president" getting access is President Zelensky, pnwmom Dec 2019 #15

Well then it was vague. There was a problem with coprehention. Biden applegrove Dec 2019 #16

I certainly don't think Biden deliberately said something untrue. I NEVER said he was a liar. pnwmom Dec 2019 #18

You are not listening. The guy was vague. I'm going to put that on my applegrove Dec 2019 #19

Yes, he was vague. I think he probably assumed, incorrectly, that Biden would understand pnwmom Dec 2019 #20

Well i can't say purposely using vagueness is a GOP tactic right now applegrove Dec 2019 #21

Jake Tapper thought the man asking the question was referring to Obama too. applegrove Dec 2019 #30

That is mere quibbling. gulliver Dec 2019 #23

Agreed LongtimeAZDem Dec 2019 #25

This is not about Joe Biden...it's about dump and his arms for dirt and smear campaign and I must UniteFightBack Dec 2019 #13

+1000. Much slower. Much more measured in the Biden mobbing than applegrove Dec 2019 #17

They want him to say something that makes headlines. MineralMan Dec 2019 #24

He should just calm down and tell the basic story BeyondGeography Dec 2019 #26

Exactly. Remember Obama's speech about race? It changed people's lives and minds. Squinch Dec 2019 #28

Reporters aren't looking for messages. They want attention. n/t Guilded Lilly Dec 2019 #27

Many of those reporters wouldn't be happy with anything Biden said. They've shown a bias in favor highplainsdem Dec 2019 #31

Perhaps all of Joe's surrogates could say it for him: What about Ivanka's Chinese copyrights? Hekate Dec 2019 #32