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Biden’s Unpresidential Coronavirus Rhetoric
His public statements and campaign ads have been exploitative and dishonest.
The former vice president has attempted to exploit the coronavirus pandemic to gain political leverage from the moment the outbreak spread to the United States. Biden has personally peddled false charges concerning the Trump administration’s response to the crisis and directed his staff to run campaign ads that deliberately distort the facts. This conduct has been so irresponsible in some cases that even news outlets whose ideological inclinations would normally render them supportive of his candidacy have taken him to task. The Washington Post, for example, awarded Biden four “Pinocchios” last Friday for promulgating deceptively edited videos that created a false impression of the president’s words:
Biden’s ad presents two separate and distinctly different examples of manipulated video…. Ultimately, the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak, the fact that Trump had clarified his comments on the matter before the ad was released, and the blatant way the Biden camp isolated his remarks about the American Dream pushed us to Four Pinocchios. Campaigns must be willing to make their case without resorting to video manipulation.
This is by no means an isolated offense. During last Sunday’s Democratic debate, Biden leveled a charge at the Trump administration that was not merely false but also betrayed considerable ignorance about public health: “Look, the World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them.” In reality, there was no such offer. Kaiser Health News quotes World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Margaret Harris as follows: “No discussions occurred between WHO and CDC about WHO providing COVID-19 tests to the United States.” The Coronavirus Task Force also debunked Biden’s claim while explaining how such tests are evaluated.
A few days before the Sunday debate, Biden made yet another false claim about the Trump administration that had already been debunked: “By cutting our investment in global health, this administration has left us woefully unprepared for the exact crisis we now face.” This myth has been parroted so often by so many Democrats, including Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), that the Post was again compelled to set the record straight: “Murphy jumped to conclusions, assuming the funding reductions had gone into effect and the programs in nearly 40 countries were closed. But that’s not correct.” Nonetheless, numerous variations of this “funding cuts” fiction remain in Joe Biden’s rhetorical repertoire.
Biden has, for example, consistently claimed that Trump shut down the “pandemic response” office created by the Obama administration to deal with infectious diseases like coronavirus. On March 1, CNBC reported, “Biden accused the Trump administration of eliminating an office in the White House to deal with future outbreaks of pandemic diseases, which he said was set up during the Ebola crisis in West Africa from 2014 to 2016.” The story goes more or less as follows: Trump made drastic cuts in the National Security Council (NSC) that effectively “dissolved” the pandemic response office. Unfortunately for the former VP’s credibility, the person who led that office says the charge just isn’t true:
It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration … that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious.
That was written by Tim Morrison, who was senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense at the NSC when Trump’s “draconian cuts” occurred. What actually happened was that the president streamlined the bloated NSC, reorganizing some sections to accomplish that goal. In that process, three departments with roughly the same mission were consolidated.
Biden’s Unpresidential Coronavirus Rhetoric | The American Spectator | Politics Is Too Important To Be Taken Seriously.
Biden’s Unpresidential Coronavirus Rhetoric
His public statements and campaign ads have been exploitative and dishonest.
The former vice president has attempted to exploit the coronavirus pandemic to gain political leverage from the moment the outbreak spread to the United States. Biden has personally peddled false charges concerning the Trump administration’s response to the crisis and directed his staff to run campaign ads that deliberately distort the facts. This conduct has been so irresponsible in some cases that even news outlets whose ideological inclinations would normally render them supportive of his candidacy have taken him to task. The Washington Post, for example, awarded Biden four “Pinocchios” last Friday for promulgating deceptively edited videos that created a false impression of the president’s words:
Biden’s ad presents two separate and distinctly different examples of manipulated video…. Ultimately, the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak, the fact that Trump had clarified his comments on the matter before the ad was released, and the blatant way the Biden camp isolated his remarks about the American Dream pushed us to Four Pinocchios. Campaigns must be willing to make their case without resorting to video manipulation.
This is by no means an isolated offense. During last Sunday’s Democratic debate, Biden leveled a charge at the Trump administration that was not merely false but also betrayed considerable ignorance about public health: “Look, the World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them.” In reality, there was no such offer. Kaiser Health News quotes World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Margaret Harris as follows: “No discussions occurred between WHO and CDC about WHO providing COVID-19 tests to the United States.” The Coronavirus Task Force also debunked Biden’s claim while explaining how such tests are evaluated.
A few days before the Sunday debate, Biden made yet another false claim about the Trump administration that had already been debunked: “By cutting our investment in global health, this administration has left us woefully unprepared for the exact crisis we now face.” This myth has been parroted so often by so many Democrats, including Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), that the Post was again compelled to set the record straight: “Murphy jumped to conclusions, assuming the funding reductions had gone into effect and the programs in nearly 40 countries were closed. But that’s not correct.” Nonetheless, numerous variations of this “funding cuts” fiction remain in Joe Biden’s rhetorical repertoire.
Biden has, for example, consistently claimed that Trump shut down the “pandemic response” office created by the Obama administration to deal with infectious diseases like coronavirus. On March 1, CNBC reported, “Biden accused the Trump administration of eliminating an office in the White House to deal with future outbreaks of pandemic diseases, which he said was set up during the Ebola crisis in West Africa from 2014 to 2016.” The story goes more or less as follows: Trump made drastic cuts in the National Security Council (NSC) that effectively “dissolved” the pandemic response office. Unfortunately for the former VP’s credibility, the person who led that office says the charge just isn’t true:
It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration … that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious.
That was written by Tim Morrison, who was senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense at the NSC when Trump’s “draconian cuts” occurred. What actually happened was that the president streamlined the bloated NSC, reorganizing some sections to accomplish that goal. In that process, three departments with roughly the same mission were consolidated.
Biden’s Unpresidential Coronavirus Rhetoric | The American Spectator | Politics Is Too Important To Be Taken Seriously.
