NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel edited video of President Joe Biden on Friday to remove context from remarks that some could judge as racially insensitive.
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In Veterans Day comments made Thursday, Biden told an anecdote that referenced baseball player Satchel Paige, who had pitched in the Negro Leagues before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
On “Fox & Friends,” Rachel Campos Duffy said Biden was “facing backlash” for comments at Arlington National Cemetery.
In his comments, Biden said he had “adopted the attitude of the great Negro, at the time pitcher in the Negro Leagues, went on to become a great pitcher in the pros in Major League baseball after Jackie Robinson, his name was Satchel Paige.”
But when Duffy played the clip, it was edited so Biden was heard saying he had “adopted the attitude of the great Negro at the time, pitcher, name was Satchel Paige.”
Duffy said Biden’s remarks were “landing him in hot water.” While “Negro” was once a common way to refer to Black people and still appears in organization names, the terms “Black” and “African American” are more widely used today.
When editing video, journalists have an obligation to keep statements in the context they were delivered or explain to viewers why a change was made, said Al Tompkins, faculty member at Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank. In this case, the edit is not at all clear, he said.
A Fox spokesperson noted that the full remark was used when the story was repeated two other times on “Fox & Friends,” and said the one-time edit was made because of time constraints.
If trump would have said those words city’s across America would be burning hypocrite s
Biden called someone “the great negro”
AP: he was talking about “the negro leagues” so it’s not a big deal
Biden used the word “n***r” during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing 35 years ago
AP: he was reading a racist statement made by a state legislator so it’s not a big deal
Former “apprentice” star claims that there’s tape of Trump using the N-word on the TV set
AP: Trump is racist
Trump’s niece claims the Trump family including Donald Trump used racial slurs all the time
AP: Trump is racist
Sure there’s no double standard at all and if you think there is then that’s because you’re a racist bigot who’s worse then Hitler.
Well, I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.
Are you a junkie?
Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle
Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly diverse attitudes about different things.
You got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
the Democratic Party could “stand a liberal George Wallace. Someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people”.
the concept of desegregation busing is a “rejection of the whole movement of Black pride”.
My Democratic colleagues don’t like me saying this but the two party system is good for the south and good for the negro, good for the black.
They’re going to put you all back in chains.
I don’t care why someone is a malefactor in society. I don’t care why someone is antisocial. I don’t care why they’ve become a sociopath. We have an obligation to cordon them off from the rest of society.
Thurmond was “a product of his time”.
Jeez, the reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home is because some Black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf
Non of these comments are racist according to the AP because Biden said them not Trump
Joe Biden is racist because he thinks blacks are too dumb to present photo ID at voting stations.
editing it out, in this day and age! That’s a joke. His remarks made the rounds just as Ashley Biden’s diary, no matter the justice dept. raiding Project Veritas.