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Wingnut:

--- Quote from: catfish1957 on April 19, 2024, 04:06:14 am ---Eat a Biden?

Even the Donner Party would have chosen starvation.

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deb:

--- Quote from: Hoodat on April 19, 2024, 03:40:21 am ---He was a passenger aboard the aircraft, not a member of the crew, and definitely not the pilot.  It was a twin-engine plane, not a single-engine plane.  The plane was not shot down.  The plane crashed over water, where not only were there no cannibals, there was no New Guinea either.  Lie upon lie upon lie upon lie.

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Ol’ Joe wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped him in the face.

DefiantMassRINO:
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mystery-ak:
'They wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky': Outraged Papua New Guinea academics lash out at Biden's 'unacceptable' suggestion that cannibals ate his WW2 pilot uncle

    Analysts branded Biden's comments as 'unsubstantiated and poorly judged'
    Other academics said his categorization of the cannibalism was 'very offensive'

By Natasha Anderson

Published: 07:44 EDT, 19 April 2024 | Updated: 08:45 EDT, 19 April 2024

Outraged Papua New Guinea academics have slammed President Joe Biden for his 'unacceptable' suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in the country after his plane was shot down during World War II.

Biden implied on two occasions Wednesday that his maternal uncle 2nd Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan had met a grisly end at the hands of cannibals after his plane was shot down by the enemy over New Guinea in 1944.

But the White House and official defense records confirmed that Finnegan died when the military plane he was in experienced engine failure and crashed into the Pacific Ocean, not over land.

Historically, cannibalism has been reported Papua New Guinea, the Pacific nation that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, but local academics say Biden's categorization of the act is 'very offensive'.

Michael Kabuni, a political science lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea, told The Guardian cannibalism was previously practiced by some communities in very specific contexts and that locals 'wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky'.

Other analysts branded Biden's claims as 'unsubstantiated and poorly judged', especially during a time in which the US has been trying to strengthen its ties with Papua New Guinea.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13327529/Biden-cannibalism-uncle-Papua-New-Guinea-outraged-academics.html

mountaineer:


There I was, flying over Papua in a Piper Cub with Amelia Earhart and John Denver. Amelia piloted, I was the navigator, John sang. I was wearing my aviator glasses.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light! Surface-to-air missiles - We're hit! We're going down! The engine screamed. Amelia screamed. I screamed. John sang, "To live on the land we must learn from the sea."

Amelia snapped at him, "Quiet, you idiot! We're about to learn from the sea up close and personal, unless I can get this plane on the sand."

WHAM! We hit the beach with a deafening thud. A thousand, no, million billion, hundred ... anyway, you know, the thing ... pygmy cannibals ran from the jungle and surrounded us. With a terrifying cry, they opened the doors to the plane and pulled us out. John said, "Wait! My guitar!" So one of them retrieved his guitar.

They started a bonfire and filled a giant pot with water. One of them added a little salt.

"You might want to add a mirepoix, too," I suggested, "And a bouquet garni, maybe?"

John said, "Yes, that would really fill up my senses."

The cannibals ignored our suggestions, and the water heated up. "When are you going to throw us into the pot?" I asked. "When I lived in the 'hood, the homies always brought the water to a boil, then added the protein, and reduced the temp to a simmer until the meat was tender. We all learned that at the local bodega, right after Jewish school. In Scranton. Around the time my son Beau stormed the beaches of Normandy."

The cannibal chief looked at me like I was nuts. "We're not going to cook you, you stupid stringy-ass old white man. We're making pasta. But if you want a drink while we're waiting for it to cook, try some of this."

"Mmm," John said. "Misty taste of moonshine! Thank God I'm a country boy, yee haw."

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