Newsbusters By Tim Graham
Reporters skipped over a series of gaffes — Biden putting Jesse Helms in South Carolina, ending a speech with “Let’s go lick the world,” and mixing up the All Blacks rugby team with the Black and Tans, a brutal police force the British used against the Irish. NBC’s Lester Holt and Peter Alexander showed happy Irish folks waving American flags and played a series of less confused Biden video clips from what Holt called a “landmark” trip.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough told everyone to ignore the gaffes, and held up positive headlines in Irish newspapers, like one saying “BIDEN JOY.”
All this reminds us of Mitt Romney’s trip abroad in July of 2012, where the networks held up headlines from London reading “MITT THE TWIT.” NBC’s Peter Alexander did it, and so did CBS reporter Jan Crawford. She said “Can you see it? ‘Mitt the Twit.’ That’s not the type of headline you want.” But it was definitely the headline CBS and NBC wanted!
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