Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his use of the term “Shylocks,” which some consider anti-Semitic, was “a poor choice of words.”
His statement came a day after the national director of the Anti-Defamation League issued a mild rebuke of the vice president’s use of the word, saying Biden “should have been more careful.”
At a Tuesday conference marking the 40th anniversary of the Legal Services Corporation, Biden recalled anecdotes from his son’s experience serving in Iraq and meeting members of the military who were in need of legal help because of problems back at home.
“That’s one of the things that he finds was most in need when he was over there in Iraq for a year,” Biden said. “That people would come to him and talk about what was happening to them at home in terms of foreclosures, in terms of bad loans that were being … I mean these Shylocks who took advantage of, um, these women and men while overseas.”
I’m just playing by their rules here. If a Republican had said the exact same thing MSNBC would have it on a 24/7 loop and the Hitler comparisons would be on. Biden’s history, especially since becoming Vice President, is one huge body of evidence that he doesn’t think before, during or after speaking. Sure, he’ll get around to an, “Oops, shucks…” insincere apology like this when his handlers have point out his latest gaffe, but he is held to absolutely no standard whatsoever by the media or the Democrats. Conservatives and Republicans barely hold him to one. Most I talk to dismiss him or say they find him “amusing”.
Nothing funny about a guy who never thinks being that close to the nukes if you ask me.
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