The Patriot Post® · Two Telling Biden Blunders

They all look alike to him.

How else to explain Joe Biden’s most recent gaffe — that of referring to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus as the Congressional Black Caucus?

Chronicling this president’s many missteps is a full-time job, and at times we feel like we’re punching defenseless hippies, if you’ll pardon the repetition. But this is Biden’s third doozy in just two days, and it’s significant because it comes at the expense of a voting bloc that has traditionally voted Democrat but is increasingly moving toward the Republicans.

“I know Sister Norma lives the lessons nuns taught me growing up,” he said. “Lessons based on the Gospel of Matthew: feed the hungry, care for the sick, welcome strangers. They echo what my dad taught me, and I mean this sincerely, my dad used to say, ‘Everyone, everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.’”

So far, so good, right?

But then: “The Congressional Black Caucus embodies all those values.”

If this gaffe were a one-off, we might just shrug and move on. But it happened a day after he achieved a rare trifecta of sorts during a joint Wednesday United Nations presser with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. First, Biden breached protocol by taking to the stage without his Brazilian counterpart. Second, he nearly tackled the large Brazilian flag as he fought his way to the lectern. And third, he exited the stage after shaking the hand of International Labor Organization Director-General Gilbert Huongbo, who offered some brief concluding remarks, but without so much as a handshake or even a nod toward the Brazilian president. See for yourself.

Notice how Lula makes a move toward Biden, then notices that the American president has no intention of reciprocating. He watches Biden give a weird and weak salute to the audience before turning to exit stage right, then he sweeps his right hand across his body in obvious disgust, before departing the stage in the opposite direction.

Biden couldn’t even figure out the little earpiece he’d been outfitted with for this ostensibly simple event. “Can you hear me, President Biden?” asked a frustrated da Silva as he took to the lectern to begin his remarks while watching Biden fumbling with his gear. “This is a historic moment for Brazil and for the US,” the Brazilian leader then said. When Biden didn’t respond, Lula again asked: “President Biden, can you hear me?”

The White House dutifully posted video of the 15-minute presser, during which Biden and his fellow leftist announced the launch of a “Partnership for Workers’ Rights.” But notice that the staffer who handles the POTUS Twitter account began the video with the president already at the lectern — which is to say, after he’d nearly fallen to the floor and taken the Brazilian flag with him.

This wasn’t the worst of it for the American president, though. This incident is certainly the latest in a series of international embarrassments, but another incident on Wednesday — in fairness, it must’ve been a busy day for Biden — was a far more serious indication of the president’s dementia. As The Washington Times reports:

President Biden repeated the same story twice, nearly word for word just moments apart while discussing his decision to run for the nation’s highest office during a campaign reception, according to a White House transcript released Thursday. Speaking at a reelection fundraiser hosted by billionaire heiress and author Amy Goldman Fowler on Wednesday night in New York, Mr. Biden talked about why he decided to run for president in 2020.

Then Biden trotted out the Charlottesville lie — the utterly debunked one in which Donald Trump supposedly said white supremacists were “very fine people.”

“You remember those folks walking out of the fields literally carrying torches, with Nazi swastikas, holding them forward, singing the same vicious, antisemitic bile — the same exact bile — bile that was sung in — in Germany in the early ‘30s. And a young woman was killed. A young woman was killed.”

A moment later, he said this:

“You know, you may remember that, you know, those folks from Charlottesville, as they came out of the fields and carrying those swastikas, and remember the ones with the torches and the Ku — accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan. And in addition to that, they had — there were white supremacists. Anyway, they were making the big case about how terrible this was. And a young woman was killed in the process.”

It’s all right there in the White House transcript. (No, not the revised transcript that they posted at 5:43 p.m. Wednesday, but the original transcript they posted at 4:09 p.m. and probably forgot to take down.)

And this brings us to the mainstream media’s responsibility — rather its complicity — in all this. By what bizarre standard the nation’s most important news organizations collectively refuse to report on the clear-as-day cognitive deterioration of the American president?

Remember these events next time you wonder to what lengths the mainstream media will go to shape the news, to further its agenda, and to protect those on the political Left.