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Biden Campaign Under Fire for TV Ad Featuring Tech Investor as Struggling Bar Owner
National Review ^ | October 20, 2020 | By MAIREAD MCARDLE

Posted on 10/20/2020 1:54:12 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

The Biden campaign is taking flack for a recent television ad featuring a struggling Michigan bar owner that the ad neglects to mention is actually an affluent veteran tech investor who donated to the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign.

Joe Malcoun, who is introduced in the ad as the “co-owner” of The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Mich., backed Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stringent lockdown orders that kept businesses shuttered for months but says he blames President Trump’s administration for his business’s pandemic woes.

the ad does not mention Malcoun’s other business ventures, including being an “angel investor” in several growing tech companies. He inherited money from his wife’s grandfather and founded CKM Capital Partners in 2013. The next year, Malcoun began serving as CEO of Nutshell, a tech company selling customer relationship management software, which raised $5.5 million in angel and venture capital. He also co-founded Cahoots, a co-working and event space for tech entrepreneurs and bought three buildings in downtown Ann Arbor for his various businesses.

In July, Malcoun donated $5,000 to Biden For President, according to data from the Federal Election Commission.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Delaware; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: bars; biden; blind; california; clowncar; delaware; fakenews; garlingilchrist; gretchenwhitmer; india; jamaica; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; joemalcoun; kamalaharris; michigan; pig; shutitdown; whitmer; wretchedgretchen
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1 posted on 10/20/2020 1:54:13 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Joe Biden’s a liar that surrounds himself with liars. I wish to God the left could grow up.


2 posted on 10/20/2020 1:55:44 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

His hobby is a bar that loses money.

Boo-hoo.

Bet part of the reason it loses money is him and his friends drink there and don’t pay.


3 posted on 10/20/2020 1:56:57 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Bullish

You’re a good guy whose wishes to God count for something.

Please make them at least somewhat plausible :)

By definition, the left is infantile.

Believing in a diverse utopia where everything is sunshine and rainbows is the definition of infantile.

Full Disclosure: I have So Much wished the same thing. I want no battles, no deaths, just for the opposition to maturely lay out their differences with the POTUS and be the loyal opposition we have had for hundreds of years.

I gave up on that.

I admire that you want that, though.

But I just gave up.

Trump will win and the cities will explode.

So be it.


4 posted on 10/20/2020 2:03:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“I’m Joe Biden and I have no idea what’s in this ad”!


5 posted on 10/20/2020 2:04:16 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“Fake but accurate.”


6 posted on 10/20/2020 2:07:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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7 posted on 10/20/2020 2:07:52 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I don’t see how more than half of voters could vote for
team Biden/Harris.


8 posted on 10/20/2020 2:07:58 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you're neverTrump at this point, drop the charade, you're just I never the United States.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Biden is taking flack? From whom? Not the fake news.

I watch local Miami media...nearly 100% of it is Biden butt kissing.


9 posted on 10/20/2020 2:08:22 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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These people could mess up a wet dream. They can’t even find a real struggling small businessman, though there are tens of thousands of them easily locatable.

It’s a quote I remember, that criminals always act like criminals even when honesty is the better option. These people have to do everything in a fraudulent manner. The thought of finding a real struggling businessman would never cross their crooked minds. Instead they have to find a phony... like themselves.


10 posted on 10/20/2020 2:09:32 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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What is an “angel investor”? I’ve owned 3 different companies and never heard the term. However, those companies were back in the 90’s.


11 posted on 10/20/2020 2:12:44 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated)
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To: Bullish
One can not be a liberal in good standing unless they are pathological liars like:

Beijing’s Joe Braindeaden, the criminal father of Humpher Biden!

12 posted on 10/20/2020 2:18:36 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated Satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

You didn’t build that.


13 posted on 10/20/2020 2:20:30 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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half????

In a sane and just world, a party that is as corrupt, vile, violent and full of habitual liars and hypocrites as the Democrats are wouldn’t get more than 3% of the vote.


14 posted on 10/20/2020 2:21:58 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I haven’t seen a single Biden ad yet that isn’t full of bald-face lies from beginning to end.


15 posted on 10/20/2020 2:22:43 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: dp0622

Let the cities explode, the only way the Left will “get it” is if their blood is shed in good quantities. Lots of long prison terms wouldn’t hurt either.


16 posted on 10/20/2020 2:26:27 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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Here’s the thing Jack, if the rats weren’t lying or misrepresenting the facts—-they wouldn’t be speaking at all....c’mon man....


17 posted on 10/20/2020 2:26:55 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Fido969

Possibly his hobby is easy, drunk bar-chicks.


18 posted on 10/20/2020 2:27:13 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Fido969
His hobby is a bar that loses money.

Of course he can legally write off the losses on the bar to offset his other income. Just like Trump does.

19 posted on 10/20/2020 2:27:19 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (When seconds count, social workers are days away.)
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Yeah, but we’re talking about this election and they are
still thought to be competitive.

I don’t disagree, but we’re still stuck with them right now.


20 posted on 10/20/2020 2:27:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you're neverTrump at this point, drop the charade, you're just I never the United States.)
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