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Biden pushes back on cognitive test question: ‘Why the hell would I take a test?' (Slo Joe asks "Are you a junkie?")
Yahoo News ^ | August 5, 2020 | Brittany Shepherd

Posted on 08/05/2020 5:48:55 AM PDT by hole_n_one

WASHINGTON — Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden shrugged off a question Tuesday about taking a cognitive assessment test, which President Trump has challenged him to do — while misrepresenting what the test measures. 

In an exchange with CBS’s Errol Barnett during a wide-ranging, multi-moderator interview at a conference of Black and Latino journalists, Biden balked at Barnett’s question about whether Biden had even taken an exam.

“No, I haven’t taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test?” responded Biden, who then posed a rhetorical analogy.

“C’mon man,” he chided Barnett. “That’s like saying, ‘You — before you got on this program you took a test where you’re taking cocaine or not, what do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?’”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: biden; cbs; clowncar; cmonman; delaware; errolbarnett; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; junkie; seebs
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To: hole_n_one

What they tell Biden: “Don’t say something stupid.”

What Biden hears: “say something stupid”


41 posted on 08/05/2020 6:22:44 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: hardspunned

“I guess he forgot.“

He should take a test for that.


42 posted on 08/05/2020 6:24:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: gbscott

Amen..... I have it frequently while posting and insert ////// and then go back and insert the correct word. It almost always surfaces in time to actually post

My wife has it while speaking and just pauses till the word surfaces. One learns to accept the pause.

The pause would be unacceptable on the phone with a foreign leader

We are both 78 and are active in efforts beyond home


43 posted on 08/05/2020 6:30:02 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: eyeamok

“I’ll take a drug test if you will do a cognitive screening exam.”


44 posted on 08/05/2020 6:39:31 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: bert

Somebody commented the other day that Joe Biden has been a politician for over 50 years and, as such, he is well versed in giving quick responses to questions.

When anyone looks at Biden today and sees how poorly he performs it is more than apparent Biden has major mental illnesses.


45 posted on 08/05/2020 6:39:38 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: PGalt

That would make an excellent campaign ad.


46 posted on 08/05/2020 6:43:21 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

“If you don’t vote for me you ain’t black, or you are black and a junkie.” Biden seems to use the “C’mon man” phrase when speaking to blacks. He seems to think that talking “jive” proves that he’s down with the struggle. Pathetic.


47 posted on 08/05/2020 6:43:34 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: hole_n_one

So Joe couldn’t come up with the term “drug test” on the fly.
There’s a test right there, Joe. You flunked.


48 posted on 08/05/2020 6:46:55 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: hole_n_one

Whoa 😳 https://t.co/QP18JBpzvo— CJTRUTH⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@cjtruth) August 5, 2020

BIDEN: "No, I haven't taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? C'mon man. That's like saying you, before you got in this program, if you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not, what do you think huh? Are you a junkie?" pic.twitter.com/f6UMPJq381— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) August 5, 2020


49 posted on 08/05/2020 6:51:02 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Miss Didi

He definitively said that he was tested and even said “constantly” tested, what changed?

Which time was Biden out right lying?

Maybe he just can’t remember if he took a cognitive test or not? https://t.co/IcXnLMM2gv— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 5, 2020


Joe Biden clarifies he has not taken a cognitive test https://t.co/UBThdDEPxi— CNN (@CNN) August 5, 2020


50 posted on 08/05/2020 7:08:08 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: hole_n_one
The video clip is worth watching to the end (a minute and a half).

For me, the big payoff was at the end.

Anyway, I am uh ... I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical mental filn ... my physical as well as my mental filn...fitness and to uh, you know make a judgement about who I am.

Joe, the cognitive test does not measure physical firness, but cognitive fitness. It also helps if it doesn't take three tries to say "fitness".
51 posted on 08/05/2020 7:25:12 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; All

“Unbelievable video.”

Truly. Unlike many of its predecessors, the audio is crystal clear even to me, and I’m hard of hearing and use hearing aids, and it shows his deterioration better than any of the others I have seen.


52 posted on 08/05/2020 7:30:13 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: fluorescence; All
OOPS, I missed something in making my earlier comment, FTA:

"In an exchange with CBS’s Errol Barnett during a wide-ranging, multi-moderator interview at a conference of Black and Latino journalists, Biden balked at Barnett’s question about whether Biden had even taken an exam." (My emphasis.)

OMG, he made the racist cocaine insult to a black questioner "at a conference of black and Latino journalists." If any other human being did something like that in a corporate or governmental context, he/she would have immediately destroyed his/her career. It's the equivalent of using the "N" word.

53 posted on 08/05/2020 7:43:07 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: hole_n_one

I saw it. He responded like every single senile person I ever know.

Hostility-sudden and automatic. He needs to buy time for a response and make himself sound like he ‘gets’ it. Showing anger comes across that way.


54 posted on 08/05/2020 7:43:16 AM PDT by SMARTY (Freedom from effort in the present means effort has been stored up, in the past. T Roosevelt)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
From the linked article: “Look, c’mon man, I know you’re trying to goad me, but I’m so ... looking [forward] to have an opportunity to sit or stand with the president on the debates.”

Not only did Biden flub the phrase "looking forward" by inverting the order of the words, but the fake news reporter covers for him by translating what Biden said rather than quote him verbatim. Apparently the reporter IS a democrat junkie.

55 posted on 08/05/2020 7:48:59 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: PGalt

You forgot one....PERVERT.


56 posted on 08/05/2020 8:21:36 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: SMARTY

Biden is the face of confusion and senility. The Democrats appear to be as good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as Republicans are.

57 posted on 08/05/2020 8:24:55 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: goodnesswins

Thanks much. I’ll add it when I update the list. I’m adding CREEPY, also.


58 posted on 08/05/2020 8:25:33 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization)
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To: fireman15

That looks similar to a picture of Hillary during last election...someone should post them side by side


59 posted on 08/05/2020 8:37:28 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: goodnesswins
That looks similar to a picture of Hillary during last election...someone should post them side by side

I am not sure which picture and am having a hard time getting them to go side by side, but maybe these two? They both look like they might be on similar drugs, but Clinton looks like something triggered a mild epeleptic fit, while Biden just looks like a senile old man.


60 posted on 08/05/2020 9:01:28 AM PDT by fireman15
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