Posted on 11/11/2021 12:01:09 PM PST by thegagline
Conservative critics falsely claimed that President Joe Biden referred to legendary pitcher Satchel Paige as a “negro” during a Veterans Day speech — barely more than a week after pulling the same bit on Biden and Pope Francis.
Variations on the same claim spread like wildfire among verified conservative Twitter users Thursday: that the president had referred to the late Hall of Famer as “the great negro at the time,” some even including a clip that plainly reveals the falsehood of the attack: *** What actually happened is that the president was wishing Amb. Donald Blinken a happy birthday during his Veterans Day speech, and injected one of his favorite stories: a roundabout way of saying that you’re only as old as you feel.
I’ve adopted the attitude of the great Negro, at the time, pitcher in the Negro Leagues, went on to become a great pitcher in the pros and Major League Baseball after Jackie Robinson.
His name was Satchel Paige, and Satchel Paige, on his 47th birthday pitched a win against Chicago. And all the press went in and said, “Satch, it’s amazing. Forty-seven years old, no one’s ever, ever pitched a win at age 47. How do you feel about being 47?”
He said “Boys, that’s not how I look at it.”
He says “How do you look at it, Satch?”, and he said “I look at it this way, how old would you be if you know how old you were?”
I’m 50 years old and the ambassador’s 47.
The president obviously began to say “Great Negro League pitcher,” but then paused and shifted to saying “at the time, pitcher in the Negro Leagues,” which was, in fact, the name of the league that Black players formed when they were shut out of Major League Baseball. That this needs to be explained is beyond absurd.
Biden’s age declined by ten years since a few weeks ago, when he concluded the same anecdote by telling Pope Francis “You’re 65 and I’m 60,” and at which time conservatives spread the similar false claim that Biden called the pope “the famous African-American baseball player in America.”
The president frequently tells the Paige story, including at the White House when the L.A. Dodgers visited in July.
Negro please
If the media says “obviously” it really means you must completely disregard reality.
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as does the writer who quotes Brandon saying the very thing the writer denies he said.
TalyBiden called the pope negro ?
Funny, I handy heard or read that anywhere.
Urinalistic mental gymnastics is what this article looks like.
To be fair, I remember all the times the media covered for Trump when someone misconstrued something he said. /s (if it’s actually needed)
So, he wasn’t a great Negro?
He did.
He’s senile and can’t say what he wants to or should say.
Hence what should be “the great Negro League pitcher...” becomes “the great negro pitcher”.
He said it.
These liars in the Ministry of Truth try to say that not meaning to have said it means he didn’t say it.
Here it is. We’re not taking it out of context, Biden said it that way;
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4008070/posts
Joe is being so niggardly with his so few compliments.
Nor was he magic.
Fair enough. So rather than calling Satch’ “Negro”, ol’ Joe is so fumble-brained and marble-mouthed he couldn’t articulate properly and he garbled up the phrasing.
Amazing how he could be so insensitive as to accidentally disrespect the current approved nomenclature rules. That itself is an entirely damnable offense is it not?
You mean GREAT Negro Please.
Was he clean???
Please start splicing this and repeating it. They feel the need to write this then they’re nervous. Own this and make it trend.
Yes, Biden did say “negro,” even though the writer - using his ESP - knew what Biden meant to say. And Biden DID say this about Obama: “[Obama is] the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Holy crap pants Biden.
I stand corrected.
Someone needs to school Joe on inappropriate behavior.
According to Dave Chappelle:
Getting the J&J Covid vaccine was the most “NIGGERLY” thing he’d done in a while.
Was he clean and articulate?
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