Fox News personality and radio host Dan Bongino went wild over a Mediaite article explaining the president that of Joe Biden the use of...
Fox News personality and radio host Dan Bongino went wild over a Mediaite article explaining the president that of Joe Biden the use of the n-word during a hearing in 1986 and was extremely confused about the difference between then-Senator Biden’s use of the word and that of podcaster Joe Rogan.
It was an article titled “Joe Rogan Defenders Circulated Video of Joe Biden Saying the N-Word – Here’s the Full Story”, which Bongino criticized in his radio program with the author of the article, Tommy Christopher – who am I.
Using insulting language, he suggested to his two listeners that Biden’s use of the insult was analogous – if not identical – to Mr. Rogan’s. several uses of the word (annotations in italics of mine):
So here comes the hilarity of the leftist media, this prankster at Mediaite [fact check: I do often tell jokes. I am not The Joker or even primarily a joker] who is terrified every day [I take at least two days off a week]this cat Tommy Christopher [I am not a cat, although I wouldn’t mind being a cat because a cat’s the only cat who knows where it’s at].
So Joe Biden got caught [he was recorded by C-Span cameras at a public hearing]you know, on a 1985 [it was 1986] tape saying the N word too. [Biden was quoting a racist official while grilling the Reagan nominee who approved of that racist official’s voting proposal.]
So, I want you to listen to the title of his track, and I want to show you how if you flip the names, if you had principles, it would make sense.
But here’s the headline of that article from Mediaite: “Joe Rogan Defenders Circulated Video of Joe Biden Saying the N-Word. Here’s the Full Story.
The context therefore matters. Is that the case ? Because if you change the title to “Joe Biden defenders circulated a video of Joe Rogan saying the N-word. Here’s the full story.” You could write the same piece, but notice he doesn’t .
He only writes the article to defend Joe Biden, proving that their principles are not principles at all. These are nothing but shrill, ridiculous, petty amateurish political attacks, and you should ignore them.
… he bleated.
Now I would like to help Bongino understand, and I normally would using Twitter, but Bongino – whose Twitter bio literally characteristics a screenshot boasting that it was blocked by someone named @nandoodles – bravely blocked me on Twitter.
This is literally the third time I’ve ever noted Bongino, and the first non-oblique reference (someone Google “oblique” for Dan, I’m tired).
So I have to do it here. Joe Biden, as the article says, directly quoted a racist official during a confirmation hearing for a Reagan appointee. Even today, a direct quote like that is questionable in its merits. Then-Senator Biden obviously felt it was necessary for the impact of the statement, but that doesn’t make it any less impactful to the listener.
Mr. Rogan did not limit his use of the word to direct quotes, as he stated in his long apology video, a video in which he acknowledged the offense of what he said and apologized. Rogan himself does not consider his uses of the word permissible, although he did when he said it.
And Mr Rogan also apologized for an incident in which he compared a black neighborhood to Planet of the Apes, and although he denied intending the story to be a racist comparison of black people to apes, Rogan acknowledged that it “feels like that”.
The people who circulated Biden’s video over the weekend did so because they hoped to deflect an effort to, as they put it, “defame Joe Rogan as a racist.”
But if the most influential person to speak out against Joe Rogan’s multiple uses of the n-word this weekend was Joe Rogan, does this mean that… Joe Rogan calls Joe Rogan a racist? Did I just wow you, Dan?
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