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Joe Biden suggested Bill Clinton's impeachment was a 'partisan lynching' in 1998
Business Insider ^
| 10/22/2019
| Eliza Relman
Posted on 10/22/2019 6:53:02 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned President Donald Trump's use of the term "lynching" to describe the House's impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, calling Trump's comments "despicable."
In 1998, Biden similarly suggested that former President Bill Clinton's impeachment was a "partisan lynching" in an interview with CNN, according to newly unearthed video along with a transcript seen by Insider.
"[H]istory is going to question whether or not this was just a partisan lynching or whether or not it was something that in fact met ... the very high bar that was set by the founders as to what constituted an impeachable offense," Biden said in 1998.
Biden wasn't the only high-profile Democrat to describe Clinton's impeachment in these terms. Rep. Jerry Nadler called the potential releasing of a videotape during the impeachment proceedings a "lynch mob" in 1998 Reuters article.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: biden; democrats; fakenews; impeachment; lynching; mediabias; nadler; trump
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To: All
Democrats have no shame.
Other Dems besides Biden and Nadler used this word then.
Dems tried to lynch Clarence Thomas, the Duke Lacrosse players, Kavanaugh, the Covington kids, and now Trump.
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posted on
10/22/2019 6:56:57 PM PDT
by
Its All Over Except ...
(If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
To: Its All Over Except ...
To: Its All Over Except ...
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posted on
10/22/2019 6:57:28 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
To: Michael.SF.
Today I learned something. Joe Biden had a mullet in 1998
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Can’t say I didn’t try.
I put the name Joe Biden in for titles in the search bar and that thread did not come up. Should have just used Biden I guess.
Oh well...
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:05:37 PM PDT
by
Its All Over Except ...
(If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
To: Michael.SF.
I thought the same thing.
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:06:01 PM PDT
by
Its All Over Except ...
(If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
To: Its All Over Except ...
Imagine if the media had to confront the Democrat Party history of lynchings
No! Everyone look at something else!
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:07:01 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Its All Over Except ...
To: mrsmith
Remember it was, Democrat Hatton William Summers of Texas, who opposed anti-lynching laws during his 17 terms in the House of Representatives, arguing that the individual states could handle the problem of mob violence against African Americans.
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:15:00 PM PDT
by
Brown Deer
(America First!)
To: Its All Over Except ...
All the dipstick Leftist media, including blubberlip Brett Behr, have never even heard of the scores of shady cowboys who were strung up in the old West...whether they had a thing to do with any crime or not.
WHITE COWBOYS.
Do all these jackasses actually think that "Lynch" is somehow a black-owned word?
To: Its All Over Except ...
And then there was the high tech lynching of Clarence Thomas.
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:18:17 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Smellin Salt
Today I learned something. Joe Biden had a mullet in 1998 He did? Who et it, and whose mule did he make 'em et??
To: Its All Over Except ...
Joe Biden brandished a chain link and threatened to lynch a black man he called Esther (Williams) at a public swimming pool.
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:25:05 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: Its All Over Except ...
Why write “suggested”? Why not “said”?
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:26:26 PM PDT
by
alternatives?
(Why have an army if there are no borders?)
To: Its All Over Except ...
Use their words against them:
To use Joe Biden words, the Democrats are engage in a PARTISAN LYNCHING of trump.
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:31:43 PM PDT
by
Bulwinkle
(, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
To: Its All Over Except ...
Other Dems besides Biden and Nadler used this word then.
And there’s the problem. We expect a minimal logical consistency from Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself). Of course Dems called Clinton’s impeachment a lynching. Of course Trump’s use of the word to describe what is happening to him is completely racist and inappropriate. Can’t you see that?
I know a history professor who just wrote a book about the last lynching of a black in Illinois. a poor black man was basically seized from the sheriff in Cairo and hanged. His body was then burnt. It was a horrible event. The fact that a white man was lynched the same day in the same town interests absolutely no one.
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:33:23 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: Its All Over Except ...
Biden is an expert on lynching. Didn’t he lead the Clarence Thomas lynch party?
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posted on
10/22/2019 8:04:41 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: Brown Deer
Thank you.
ALL the Southern lynchings were performed by, and defended by, Democrats.
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posted on
10/22/2019 8:12:46 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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