CNN Tries To Kneecap Biden, Exposing Past Letters To Make Him Look Like Racist
It was a running joke during the 90’s that CNN stood for the “Clinton News Network,” thanks to its seemingly left-leaning coverage of the news. That moniker naturally resurfaced during Hillary Clinton’s run for president in 2016, and it’s safe to say that the cable news channel isn’t exactly a conservative ally.
So you’ll be excused for assuming that the liberal-slanted network would already be running cover for Joe Biden. After all, the venerable politician was closely associated with Mrs. Clinton when they both served in the Obama administration, and they’re generally grouped into the same political camps.
Both Clinton and Biden bill themselves as somewhat moderate, although we obviously disagree. Both point to their long resumes of public service and tout experience as the main reason you should vote for them.
But the “Clinton News Network,” to borrow the joking term, seems to have made a bizarre move this week. Instead of running media cover for Biden as his anticipated 2020 campaign gears up, they seem to be working overtime to discredit him.
CNN is now leading the way in casting doubt on Biden’s hopes for the White House by exposing decades-old letters which appear to put him on the wrong side of the racial segregation issue.
It’s been largely forgotten, but in his younger years as a lawmaker, Biden fought tooth-and-nail against providing busing to desegregated schools. That’s an awkward — and potentially politically fatal — position for the man who later served next to the first black president.
“It was more than four decades ago as a battle raged across the country — and in Congress — over sending white students to majority-black schools and black students to majority-white schools often far away from their own neighborhoods,” CNN explained.
“Biden forcefully opposed the government’s role in trying to integrate schools, saying he favored desegregation, but believed busing did not achieve equal opportunity,” the outlet continued.
The news network uncovered and published several letters written by Biden, in which he takes the side of “some of the Senate’s most fervent segregationists.” Those were CNN’s words, making it appear that they’re actively trying to link the 2020 hopeful to southern racists.
“Biden … repeatedly asked for — and received — the support of Sen. James Eastland, a Mississippi Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a leading symbol of Southern resistance to desegregation,” CNN reported. “Eastland frequently spoke of blacks as ‘an inferior race.'”
Indeed, one of the uncovered letters shows that the 34-year-old Senator Biden was downright gushing about working with the segregationist to end busing for black students.
“Dear Mr. Chairman,” Biden’s 1977 letter stated. “I want you to know that I very much appreciate your help during this week’s committee meeting in attempting to bring my anti-busing legislation to a vote.”
Other similar letter made the 2020 hopeful’s stance against integrated busing for minority students very clear.
“At the very least, they present further evidence to suggest that Biden was quite committed to the anti-busing cause,” said Professor Jason Sokol, a civil rights historian. “He was strongly opposed to busing and was very interested in the passage of the anti-busing legislation that he sponsored. It wasn’t a half-hearted thing.”
And it’s worth remembering that many experts believe busing — which Biden was against — was a key part of civil right progress.
“If it weren’t for the busing during that time period, we likely wouldn’t have seen our first African American president,” pointed out Ronnie Dunn of Cleveland State University. “That social interaction helped break down the structural barriers of racism.”
Ergo, Joe Biden once stood firmly in the way of racial progress in America, by the left’s own standards.
All of this begs a peculiar question: What is going on with CNN? Why has a decidedly left-leaning outlet chosen to throw a wrench in Biden’s 2020 hopes with this latest exposé?
One possibility is that they remembered how to do journalism again. It’s worth noting that Biden — an aging white male — doesn’t have any of the minority advantages that the last two Democrat candidates for president have had.
After years of social justice activism tainting the establishment media, maybe Biden is just so bland that CNN has realized it’s socially safe for them to dig up dirt on him, and do the kind of investigative journalism that used to be common.
But there’s another possibility, and one that we dare say is more likely.
It could be that CNN has shifted so far left over the years, they are willing to throw Biden under the bus — pardon the pun — in order to clear the path for even more liberal candidates.
If that’s true, then the former vice president has no remaining friends among big media. Fox News will likely be the most sympathetic to Trump as the race heats up. MSNBC has already hitched its wagon to far leftism, and will no doubt be fawning over newcomers like Beto O’Rourke and Kamala Harris.
CNN tripping up Biden would leave him adrift without a friendly port. It will be interesting to watch how these outlets and of course voters align themselves as 2020 approaches, but things are not going the way the former vice president hoped.
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