FLASHBACK: Even the Liberal Media Blasted Biden During His 1987 Scandals
By Rich Noyes and Scott Whitlock | September 17, 2019 9:10 AM EDT
It was this week in 1987 when Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign self-destructed after a series of damaging revelations about his intellectual honesty. A review of that year’s coverage shows the scandals were far more serious than today’s lack of media interest might suggest, with liberal journalists roundly criticizing Biden for being, as one magazine writer put it, “probably too dumb to have the job of President.â€
Research analyst Bill D’Agostino compiled the following package using video from the MRC’s archive, showing the evolution of the scandal and the liberal media’s reaction to each new revelation:
The first blow came when several reporters were tipped by a rival campaign to the fact that Biden had recited portions of the life story of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock as his own, without attribution. Side-by-side clips showed Biden aping Kinnock talking about his wife being the first in her family to go to college, and about his ancestors playing football for hours after a long day of working in the mines.
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