CLASH POLL: President Biden Said He ‘Has Cancer’ — Was It A Bombshell Or A Gaffe?
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Either way, it’s not a great soundbite coming from the President of the United States.
A video clip of President Biden was being shared widely on Twitter on Wednesday because like many of hs public appearances, it was incredibly bizarre. The President was recounting a story from his childhood where he said that his mother used to drive him to school and after the first frost, she had to use the windshield wipers to get the oil slick off the car window.
“That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation,” said Biden.
Did Joe Biden just announce he has cancer?
“That’s why I — and so damn many other people I grew up with — have cancer.” pic.twitter.com/lkm7AHJATX
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 20, 2022
It sure sounds like he’s blaming cancer in Delaware on the oil industry.
Picking apart the clip, the options about what he meant are pretty limited, and none of them are good.
There are only a handful of possible reasons that the the 78-year old President of the United States who is slurring his words, shuffles when he walks, and seems confused 80% of the time would say this. They are because he…
(a) has just admitted he is currently dealing with a cancer diagnosis;
(b) misspoke and was referring to skin cancer from sun exposure years ago;
(c) lies constantly and with such ease that even he can’t keep his stories straight;
(d) is so out of it he didn’t realize what he said because he has dementia.
The White House Comms team must be having a fit over there trying to figure out how to spin this with the least worst of the options before them and push it out to the “friendly” media.
Live look at the White House comms team. pic.twitter.com/jogNhKhTro
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 20, 2022
Get ready for a butt load of “fact-checks” from the press insisting that Biden meant his oil-slick caused cancer he announced was really him just talking about the skin tags he’s had removed in the past.
The spin is going to be epic.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 20, 2022
They seem to have settled on the reference to skin cancer and are sticking with it despite some significant problems with that answer.
President Biden said Wednesday that he has cancer, forcing the White House press office to quickly clarify that he was referring to skin cancer treatment that he had before taking office last year.
The remark initially appeared to be a stunningly casual health announcement during a speech about global warming in which the president described emissions from oil refineries near his childhood home in Claymont, Del.
“That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation,” Biden said.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates referred The Post to a tweet from Washington Post columnist Glenn Kessler, who noted that Biden had “non-melanoma skin cancers” removed before he took office.
It’s unclear why Biden chose to use the present verb tense to describe his experience with cancer.
Source:: New York Post
But don’t worry about Joe…
Don’t worry about Joe Biden having cancer, he is married to a doctor
— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) July 20, 2022
In addition, on the campaign trail, Joe promised that his administration would cure cancer.
FLASHBACK: Biden says “we’re gonna cure cancer” if he’s elected pic.twitter.com/2GskUb0mKF
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 20, 2022
That’s probably coming shortly after the administration “shuts down the virus” that has been spreading since March 2020 even with mask mandates, lockdowns, COVID shots and the boosters.
Joe Biden REPEATEDLY promised he’d “shut down the virus.”
But Biden had no plan. He lied. pic.twitter.com/mXu6DuaWty
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 11, 2022
If you listen to the administration and the Regime Media, that’s coming any day now…
Speaking of the journo “hactivists” for the Regime, as if on cue, they came running to defend “The Big Guy” from his own words.
Leading the charge was the head “fact-checker” at the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler.
How dumb is this tweet? Check out Biden’s medical report. Before he became president, he’d had non-melanoma skin cancers removed. Has no one at @RNCResearch ever had this common procedure? https://t.co/TS9VWtKcYC https://t.co/itklkVZIor
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 20, 2022
This is what the President was referring to. https://t.co/8F0NGTei6f
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) July 20, 2022
But critics of the President weren’t buying it.
Biden says that he *HAS* cancer, present tense. It’s not a “dumb” tweet.
Either the president of the United States has cancer and has been hiding it from the public OR his brain is so shot that he accidentally claims that he has cancer.
Either way, this is a disaster for him. https://t.co/DxFBgGZmeo
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 20, 2022
His skin cancer had nothing to do with what he was talking about, though. Biden has a tendency to relate his own life to things that are very different from his experiences. https://t.co/6GSZxNFXFP
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) July 20, 2022
You mean to tell us that when Biden said he has cancer due to oil slicks, he was really referring to when he had cancerous moles removed due to exposure to sunlight? pic.twitter.com/3OocXQJzYI
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 20, 2022
Biden is claiming that Delaware is raining oil down on everything and gave him cancer. https://t.co/cy6C9q2kfA
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 20, 2022
Joe Biden said “I have cancer from oil slicks on a windshield” and the response from his handlers at the White House is to claim he was talking against a time he had cancerous moles removed caused by exposure to sunlight. https://t.co/K5UiP7GNas
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 20, 2022
Biden: “I have cancer”
Media: “He was referring to skin cancers he had removed which fifties say because he got a lot of sun”
Biden: “The reason I have cancer is because it rained oil down on my moms car. She had to windshield wipe it off”
Media: “check mate cons”
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 20, 2022
The entire discussion happening about whether he currently has cancer or had treatment for skin cancer in the past is missing a crucial aspect of this story… it’s that he got cancer from oil raining down on his mom’s car — that’s just a weird connection to make.
The cancer part kind of distracts us from Biden’s claim that his mom had to wipe oil slicks from her car window — which is almost surely complete bs
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) July 20, 2022
The thing is that Biden, like other fabulists, reflexively puts himself in the middle of stories. This one just backfired a bit.
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) July 20, 2022
Aside from the snide, skeptical tweets by right-wingers, the team over at Townhall dug up a clip from Biden in April saying that the oil raining down on his mom’s car all those years ago is why he has asthma.
We’ve heard this story before…
BIDEN IN APRIL: “I have asthma and 80% of the people who, in fact, we grew up with have asthma.”
BIDEN TODAY: “That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer.” pic.twitter.com/8farOJVAfl
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 20, 2022
Hmmm… this is definitely weird.
Even WaPo’s “Pinocchio guy” had to admit that he was out fact-checked by Townhall.
Well, good catch by @townhallcom, @KatiePavlich https://t.co/lnjw6Qk6BJ
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 20, 2022
As pointed out by conservative journalist, Stephen Miller, the White House Comms team could’ve just said that Biden misspoke and meant to say “asthma” as he did in April, but they chose to go with the “he had skin cancer because of sun exposure” that completely contradicts what Dementia Joe said. Interesting.
Love how they all just threw their arms up and just moved on from this. “His brain is applesauce, what do you want from us?” https://t.co/GUtgnmvEzT
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 21, 2022
So, Dear Reader, what do you think?
Did Biden accidentally let it slip that he curently has cancer, or was it another example of his cognitive decline?
CLASH POLL: President Biden Said He 'Has Cancer' -- Was It A Bombshell Or A Gaffe?
We may never know the truth… but then, this is Joe Biden we’re talking about. The man doesn’t even seem to have a passing familiarity with the concept of “truth” and even if he did, he probably wouldn’t remember it now.
Perhaps we should simply console ourselves that we are now in the dark just as Joe Biden has been every single day of his life.
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