If media did half the job they are supposed to, this would not be news.
“In a 1987 Democratic primary debate, Biden sprinkled Kinnock’s phrases into his own speech and forgot to credit him – a blunder many believe cost him the presidency.”
Lord Kinnock is a former leader of the British Labour party and staunch Biden supporter who may have willingly handed over the material. Or not.
“Joe’s an honest guy,” the 78-year-old said by phone from his home in north London. “If Trump had done it, I would know that he was lying.”
No political bias, obviously! But this is exactly the response of many New Zealanders to President Donald J Trump’s every statement and move because they are media-conditioned to distrust him.
Should we give Biden the benefit of the doubt as his politically motivated friend Kinnock did and treat Biden’s plagiarism as “well intentioned” carelessness? No, we should not.
“An emotional Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) yesterday acknowledged he had plagiarized in a paper he submitted while a first-year law student in 1965, but defended his integrity and vowed to remain a candidate for his party’s presidential nomination.
“I did something very stupid 23 years ago,” Biden, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said at a crowded news conference he convened to try to dispose of burgeoning charges of plagiarism — past and present — that have threatened his candidacy.
He also dismissed as “much ado about nothing” charges that in his stump speeches this year, he has used — word for word and without attribution — passages from other politicians.”
“I done wrong, I learned by lesson and I am a good man now,” appeals Biden. Sure Joe, voters are not that stupid. Over half of Americans rejected you in 2020, possibly more when the ballot recounts and legal challenges are done.
Being “prone to embellishment” as the New York Times so kindly put it, sent you slinking away in disgrace at your first tilt at the presidency in 1988 – so how is 2020 any different?
Joe’s first statement when media annointed him President-Elect was to declare 2020 a COVID election. This was stolen from Jacinda Ardern because, well shucks, that scaremongering worked a treat for her didn’t it?
“Joe Biden has started work on the daunting list of challenges he faces as he prepares to take the US presidency in January following his victory over Donald Trump. The Democrat has promised to stop the coronavirus from ripping through America where it has now infected close to 10 million people, and his first step will be to launch a 12-member coronavirus task force later today.”
Just don’t mention that nationwide lockdown is on your agenda Joe. Your good ol’ mates at The Guardian have promised that you are the saviour of the nation from COVID. That is all people need to know.
Damn that Trump! What has he been doing about COVID all this time? Well, not exactly sitting on his hands. Trump approached the Germans about access to a COVID vaccine being developed by CureVac when it came available. Apparently — shock horror — Trump asked for exclusive rights for the American people. Whether this is true is disputed but the point is that Trump was actively seeking a vaccine as early as March this year.
Trump then turned his attention to US big pharma for a vaccine. In typical Trumpian style he swept aside attempts to delay the development and “rashly” promised a vaccine by election day 2020.
“When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration planned to release more stringent requirements for approving the emergency use of a vaccine, Trump immediately threatened to overrule the agency. Now, as Election Day approaches, health experts worry there may not be enough safeguards in place to prevent Trump from rushing an insufficiently tested vaccine to the public.
Eleven vaccines for the coronavirus, five of which have received a financial commitment or support from the U.S. government, are now in phase 3 clinical trials to test their safety and efficacy.”
FDA Commissioner Dr Stephen Hahn was on hand to reassure the public “FDA will not authorize or approve any COVID-19 vaccine before it has met the agency’s rigorous expectations for safety and effectiveness.”
Trump missed his “rash” election day deadline by a mere five days when promising results were announced on November 10.
“Some Republicans, including Donald Trump Jr. and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, questioned the timing of Pfizer’s release of its positive data on Monday, almost a week after the presidential election — with the implication that the information could’ve changed the outcome and tipped the scales toward President Donald Trump, who lost to former Vice President Joe Biden.”
Golly gosh, could the timing of the positive news of a COVID vaccine be political? Was this extremely good news stolen from President Donald J Trump?
Early data from Pfizer and BioNTech suggests their vaccine could be 90 per cent effective at preventing Covid-19.
New Zealand has signed up for enough doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine for 750,000 people, and the Government said it could be used here from the first quarter of 2021, all going to plan.
Yet again our prime minister demonstrates inadequate planning. 750,000 people receiving the vaccine in a population of 5 million means our borders won’t open anytime soon.
Duncan Garner’s guest on the AM show on Wednesday was American Jeffrey Sachs. Garner asked, “how does the world’s economy look today?”
“Things look better today than they did last week because we’re getting rid of our bum as president. He doesn’t know it yet but we’re going to have a new president in the United States and he’s going to help us get the pandemic under control. That is the pre-requisite for an economic recovery.”
In advance, Sachs gives Biden credit for fixing COVID when the vaccine is on the horizon and it was Trump who committed “to buying hundreds of millions of vaccines in advance to ensure Americans were among the first in line if it clinches an emergency-use authorization for approval from the FDA. The Trump administration agreed in July to pay almost $2 billion for 100 million doses, with an option to acquire as many as 500 million more, once that clearance comes.”
Let’s wait and see how stealing and lying pans out for Biden and the Dems, shall we?
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