“Right now there are young people sitting in their bedroom, doors closed, silent, scrolling through social media, staring at the ceiling …. On Wednesday, at the gay event, it was gay youth. Literally, not figuratively.īiden often talks about staring at the ceiling. The fire was in Delaware, he was in D.C., but the local fire department saved his life.
“My fire department saved my life literally, not figuratively … the floors were collapsing … I was in Washington when it happened.” When he was in New Mexico, talking about the government-set forest fires that have ravaged huge parts of the state, Biden embellished more than somewhat about a minor smoky kitchen fire at one of his Delaware mansions in 2004.Įxcept now, of course, the blaze was bigger than the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The Global Fund sounds like something in your 401(k), managed by either Fidelity or Vanguard. The global fund? Surely Brandon meant to say, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
But sometimes the hacks do let ridiculous statements stand, such as his recent brag that “what I have been able to do - the largest release of oil in - from the global fund in history.” Obviously, you can’t put a line through that entire paragraph. So at the age of 2, GI Joe Brandon was there in Italy with the two future senators when they were mortally wounded. “For the 50th anniversary of D-Day, when we - they both got shot and mortally woun - badly wounded on mountain tops - I was with them both - on mountain tops, on the west coast, they were literally, as the crow flies, less than 2 miles from one another.” Remember, Joe Biden was born in 1942, approximately two years before the events he’s describing: What follows is from the official White House transcript. Both were severely wounded in the 1944-45 Italian campaign. senators who were World War II vets - Robert Dole and Daniel Inouye. Often Biden’s babbling appears even crazier in print than when you’re watching him speak live on some video feed.įor instance, this week he spoke extemporaneously about two U.S. Other times, he’s spewing out such nonsense that nothing can be done beyond simply transcribing it and letting readers try to decipher it. Month has a line through it and (year) is added. When he veers off-script, the transcript font is helpfully switched to a light blue color, as if his care-givers are throwing up their hands and saying, “You can’t blame us for this one!”įor instance, as he mentioned high costs in urban areas, Biden babbled, “It costs you 12 to 14,000 dollars a month for child care.” “Global inflammatory pressures” became “global inflationary pressures.”Īs helpless as he is even when reading from a prepared text, Biden is even more lost when he’s ad-libbing. Nobody tries to put a shine on these sneakers.Īt the Port of Los Angeles, he introduced the new Supply Chain Envoy, whatever that is, as the “Super Chain Envoy.” The only correction made was to put a line through “super” and change the word to “supply.” On the White House website, everything Brandon says is just transcribed, without comment. Surely calling a Japanese American “Nagasaki” is a cancelable offense, is it not? But no one even blinks an eye as President Silver Alert dodders aimlessly around the White House grounds. Mary Gay Scanlon “Mary Kay Scanlon.”Īt an Asian-Pacific event, he identified a Japanese American woman as “Karen Nagasaki.” Her name, the White House transcript informs me, is “Narasaki.” In L.A., he identified the DNC chairman as “Jaime Harris.” It’s Harrison.Īt the AFL-CIO convention he called Rep. Vaid wasn’t Brandon’s only recent flubbing of a name.Īt this same gay event, he introduced the late Matthew Shepard’s father as David Shepard. It’s quick and easy to scroll through the daily rations of lies and gibberish.Īs you might expect, the problem with Mr., er Ms. It’s also convenient the way the White House makes its corrections - with a line through the mistake.