{"id":68113,"date":"2021-05-19T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68113"},"modified":"2021-05-19T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:40:19","slug":"68113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68113","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/scott-whitlock\/2021\/05\/18\/cowardly-journalists-chuckle-biden-jokes-about-murdering-them\">Cowardly Journalists Chuckle as Biden Jokes About Murdering Them<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/560200\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine if Donald Trump had jokingly threatened to murder journalists standing in front of him. They probably wouldn\u2019t have laughed.\u00a0Yet that\u2019s what Joe Biden did on Tuesday and the assembled reporters just chuckled\u00a0at the funny threat. While test driving an electric Ford F-150,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MollyNagle3\/status\/1394738927555207168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC\u2019s Cecilia Vega<\/a>\u00a0broke up the adoring queries about the car by actually asking, \u201cMr. President, can I ask you a quick question about Israel before you drive away since it\u2019s so important?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who was sitting in a truck at the time, sneered, \u201cNo, you can\u2019t. Not unless you get in front of the car as I step on it. I\u2019m only teasing.\u201d The off-camera journalists awkwardly snickered in reply. Biden then drove off, having threatened the press and then not answered the serious question.<\/p>\n<p>Just prior to a real question, the reporters acted as Democratic hacks, offered up sycophantic queries about the photo-op. They included, \u201cHow does it feel to be behind the wheel, sir?\u201d \u00a0and \u201cMr. President,\u00a0how fast were you going?\u201d Biden was happy to answer those.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t actually have to imagine how the networks would react if this were Trump. In July of 2017, the then-President tweeted a video of a wrestling video in which Trump grappled with a superimposed CNN logo. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kyle-drennen\/2017\/07\/03\/nets-freak-out-over-trump-tweet-only-cbs-notes-cnn-fake-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the July 3, 2017\u00a0<em>Today<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, Hallie Jackson warned, \u201cA spokesperson for the cable network saying, \u2018It is a sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters\u2019&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kristine-marsh\/2017\/07\/03\/media-melt-down-over-trump-tweet-scary-revenge-porn-tweet-will\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Then-CNN political commentator\u00a0Sally Kohn fretted<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cBoth sides have a problem with hateful crazies. The difference is the left denounces theirs. The right elects theirs president.\u201d\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2017\/07\/02\/cnn-dangerous-fascist-trump-threatening-our-lives-his-wwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journalists on the network<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0declared Trump a \u201cdangerous\u201d madman who will get members of the press killed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content_2_btf_wrapper\" class=\"adunitwrapper content_btf_wrapper mv-size-undefinedxundefined\" data-wrapper=\"content_2_btf\">\n<div class=\"adunitlabel\">\n<div class=\"mediavine\">How will Cecilia Vega report this story? Wonder how the people at CNN feel now? They probably laughed along with the reporters Biden threatened today.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cowardly Journalists Chuckle as Biden Jokes About Murdering Them: Imagine if Donald Trump had jokingly threatened to murder journalists standing in front of him. They probably wouldn\u2019t have laughed.\u00a0Yet that\u2019s what Joe Biden did on Tuesday and the assembled reporters just chuckled\u00a0at the funny threat. While test driving an electric Ford F-150,\u00a0ABC\u2019s Cecilia Vega\u00a0broke up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-the-violence-inherent-in-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68115,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68113\/revisions\/68115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}