“Alternative facts” continue to dance across Trump fans' fields of vision, sent there deliberately by the Trump campaign. This time, it was Biden's supposed bungling of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Biden was contrasting Trump's concern for the "red" states and disdain for the "blue" ones in his remarks on COVID-19 deaths. (If you left out the blue states, Trump said, U.S. COVID statistics don't look all that bad.)
Biden's words were part of a campaign speech in Wisconsin on Monday. "He's saying if you live in a state like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, states with Democratic governors, you're not his problem," Biden said. "I don't see the presidency that way. I don't pledge allegiance to red states of America or blue states of America. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ONE NATION, INDIVISIBLE, UNDER GOD. FOR REAL."
The Trump campaign ran an eight-second clip showing only the lines I've capitalized and pretended that they were showing Biden trying to recite the “Pledge of Allegiance.”
The ad went up on Twitter on Monday, posted by Steve Guest, the "rapid response director" of the Republican National Committee, and on Facebook yesterday.
Reporters checking the post that day noted that there were north of 13,500 retweets and 1.5 million views of the video, followed, of course, by idiotic responses from people who accepted at face value the depiction of Biden as a doddering, fuzzy-headed elder. The commenting hasn't stopped.
"I'm running as a proud Democrat, but I'm not going to govern as a Democratic president: I'm going to govern as president," Biden continued in his speech.
He'll need more graciousness than I am feeling at this moment to brush off the blatant lies of his opponents' buddies.
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