‘Looks like she’s 19’: Uproar after Biden’s remarks about girl at Virginia military base
By Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
May 28, 2021
President Joe Biden raised eyebrows — and a few alarms — Friday when he lavishly complimented a little girl on her appearance during remarks at a Virginia military base.
“I love those barrettes in your hair, man,” Biden said. “I tell you what, look at her, she looks like she’s 19 years old, sitting there like a little lady with her legs crossed.”
The girl in question, who appeared to be elementary school age, had joined her parents and two older brothers on the podium while her mother introduced the president at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia.
Biden’s bizarre aside was noted and tweeted by The Post Millennial, causing a commotion on Twitter.
“That’s pretty fucked up,” tweeted longtime Republican consultant Nathan Wurtzel, who joked in a subsequent tweet: “I guess this explains the Lincoln Project support.”
Other reactions were even more succinct.
“Um, wut,” tweeted RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan, while Ricochet editor-in-chief Jon Gabriel chimed in, “dude has issues.”
“Creeeeeeep!” reacted Fox News contributor Johnny “Joey” Jones, while Townhall.com senior editor Matt Vespa tweeted: “To Catch a Predator”.
“This is going to be his last straw,” conservative podcast host and Spectator USA contributor Stephen Miller captioned an image of Kathy Bates taking a sledgehammer to James Caan’s legs in the movie “Misery.” “We’re not going to see him [Biden] for the next two weeks.”
Biden has a long history of awkward encounters with girls and young women. In February, he told an Arizona nurse during a video conference that she looked “like a freshman” in college.
During his time as vice president, Biden became notorious for getting too close to women for comfort. During Ash Carter’s swearing-in ceremony as defense secretary in 2015, Biden stood behind Carter’s wife Stephanie, held her by her shoulders and occasionally whispered in her ear. Earlier that year, Biden whispered to the then-13-year-old daughter of Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and gave her a kiss on the head after swearing in his fellow First Stater.
Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign was nearly ended before it began when in March 2019, former Nevada lawmaker Lucy Flores claimed the then-vice president grabbed her by the shoulders and kissed her hair during a Las Vegas campaign event in 2014.
Days later, after three more women accused him of inappropriate contact, Biden released a video in which he promised to “be more mindful and respectful of people’s personal space.”
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VP Harris' VERY woke joke about female Marines flops during her Naval Academy commencement speech - two weeks after Biden slammed graduating Coast Guard class as 'dull'
By Andrew Court
Daily Mail
May 29, 2021
Kamala Harris' 'woke' joke about female Marines fell flat during her commencement speech at the US Naval Academy on Friday.
The Vice President was the first woman to deliver the keynote commencement address at a Navy Academy ceremony, and she made sure to reference female empowerment as she spoke to the group of graduates.
'You are electrical engineers who will soon help convert solar and wind energy into power, convert solar and wind energy into combat power,' she stated during the speech.'Just ask any Marine today, would she rather carry 20 pounds of batteries or a rolled up solar panel, and I am positive she will tell you a solar panel - and so would he'.
Harris subsequently burst into her trademark laugh after making the joke, but the reaction from the crowd was far more muted.
Some soft clapping ensued, but the joke was panned on Twitter, where video of the speech has been viewed more than half a million times.
It comes just a week after jokes President Biden made at the Coast Guard graduation ceremony similarly fell flat.
'As your commander in chief I've been looking forward to being able to do this for a long time. I want to keep the longstanding tradition: I hereby absolve all those serving restrictions [for] minor infractions – absolved' the President told the crowd of graduates in New London, Connecticut.
'You have no idea how much I wish you'd have been able to do that in my graduation,' he joked.
'You all think I'm kidding. I'm not. Minor infractions like using a fire extinguisher to hose down a room assistant, but other than that ...' he said, alluding to a prank he carried out on his dorm advisor at the University of Delaware.
When the crowd failed to respond he stated: 'You're a really dull class. I mean, come on, man, is the sun getting to you?'
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It is hard for a speaker to connect with an audience they openly despise.
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