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Rather than tackling i*****l i*********n, Joe Biden is apologizing for using the word "illegal" to describe a murderer.

Nate Jackson


Joe Biden has a problem with i******s. He and his party think the real problem is the word "i******s." The rest of the country knows the actual problem is allowing nine million people to illegally cross his open border over the last three years.

The controversy stems from his use of the word "illegal" in his State of the Union to describe the k**ler of "Lincoln" Riley. He meant Laken Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia brutally murdered last month by an illegal from Venezuela. He only tried to say her name because he was challenged to do so mid-speech when he was busy cynically blaming Republicans for his border dereliction.

Going off-script cost him with fellow Democrats, however, as they predictably howled with outrage that he'd use such a disrespectful term. He folded as quickly as he falls up the stairs while boarding Air Force One. We'll come back to that dispute in a moment.

First, to our ears, Biden used the word "illegal" twice. The second time, there's a syllable between "by" and "legals" that sounds suspiciously like "ih." (Listen for yourself, starting at the 1:28 mark.) But thanks to the Leftmedia "fact-checkers," we've been informed that he used the word "legals" — wh**ever that means.

"Biden did not say or admit that thousands of Americans are being k**led by 'i******s,'" USA Today insists. "Video of the speech and news reports show that he said [Laken] Riley was 'k**led by an illegal' before asking, 'But how many thousands of people being k**led by legals?'"

We suppose people can be forgiven for hearing differently how Biden pronounced something in a speech loaded with slurs. Yet even if we give Biden and his army of dishonest "fact-checkers" the benefit of the doubt here, was his point that legal immigrants commit crimes more frequently than i*****l a***ns do? If so, that goes back to the years-long canard that there's no correlation between illegally crossing the U.S. border and subsequently committing other crimes.

The "fact-checkers" say Republicans like Donald Trump can't draw a connection because — get this — there's no national database tracking crimes committed by i******s. But they circle the wagons for Biden rather than "fact-check" him for the same reason. How can he assert anything about Americans being k**led by "legals" when there's no database tracking the legal status of the murderers?

As Biden would say, "Uh, anyway..."

Many Democrats were quite upset with Biden for using the word "illegal."

"There was a lot of good in President Biden's speech [Thursday], but his rhetoric about immigrants was incendiary and wrong," complained Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-TX). "The rhetoric President Biden used ... was dangerously close to language from Donald Trump that puts a target on the backs of Latinos everywhere. Democrats shouldn't be taking our cues from MAGA extremism."

Congressman Chuy García (D-IL) added, "As a proud immigrant, I'm extremely disappointed to hear President Biden use the word 'illegal.'"

Jew-hating Somalian refugee Ilhan Omar argued, "Let me be clear: No human being is illegal."

Nancy Pelosi, who literally shredded a copy of Trump's SOTU speech, tersely noted, "He should have said 'undocumented,'" though she qualified it by saying, "It's not a big thing."

Evidently, it was a big thing because Biden corrected himself over the weekend: "An 'undocumented person.' I shouldn't have used 'illegal.' It's 'undocumented.'"

Well, he is the same president who, in 2021, told his Department of Homeland Security to stop using the correct term "i*****l a***n" and instead use the more politically acceptable "undocumented individual."

Then again, his party has shifted significantly to the left. Not only did Democrats at least rhetorically oppose i*****l i*********n and support a wall, but they cared about words and their meanings.

"When we use phrases like undocumented workers, we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combatting i*****l i*********n, which the American people overwhelmingly oppose," opined ... [checks notes] Chuck Schumer in 2009. "The American people are fundamentally pro-legal immigration and anti-i*****l i*********n. ... If you don't think it's illegal, you're not going to say it. I think it is illegal and wrong, and we have to change it."

Remember stuff like that the next time a Beltway journalist like The Washington Post's Trump-deranged Jen Rubin says it's Republicans who've radicalized.

Biden went on to utterly conflate the idea of legal immigration with the illegal invasion currently taking place.

"When I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood. I talked about what I'm not going to do, what I won't do," Biden, er, clarified. "I'm not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect. Look, they built the country. The reason our economy is growing. We have to control the border and more orderly flow, but I don't share his view at all."

Saying "vermin" and "poisoning the blood," which is what Trump actually said, is certainly inflammatory, but Trump also knows exactly how to tap into widespread anger over disasters created by The Swamp. Biden's mad about words. Americans are outraged over the border crisis.

But if he wants to get angry about words, how about this: I*****l a***ns "built the country"? They're "the reason our economy is growing"? Biden just showed gross disrespect to the vast majority of people in this country — American citizens who have lived here for generations and immigrants who came by legal means, millions of whom go through the arduous process to become naturalized citizens. He disrespects the vast majority of Americans who are not anti-immigrant but anti-i*****l i*********n.

"We have to control the border," Biden says? It was under control by that Bad Orange Man until Biden came along and undid all of his progress.

Finally, about that supposedly r****t former president who doesn't care about people, he actually met with the family of Laken Riley over the weekend in Georgia. He had just held a rally where he spoke the t***h: "I say he was an i*****l a***n, he was an i*****l i*******t, he was an i*****l m*****t, and he shouldn't have been in our country, and he never would have been under Trump policies."

One man meets the family of a murder victim and says her k**ler never should have been allowed into the country in the first place. The other man mispronounced the murder victim's name and apologized for using the "illegal" label to describe her k**ler. We'd call that a pretty clear contrast in the p**********l e******n on the issue Americans care about most.

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Fact-Checking Biden's Blustering SOTU BS
This designer State of the Union was designated for Demo dunces.

Mark Alexander


You may have heard that some angry, amped-up-on-steroids version of Joe Biden yelled a State of the Union campaign speech last week. Being an accomplished provocateur of lies and deception, it was a remarkable tirade of unhinged, hyper-partisan fabrications, wrapped in his d******e trademark "h**e and fear" hustling rhetoric.

But you would not know that from his Leftmedia propagandists, who all read from the same memo:

NBC: "Energized," "Feisty," "Poignant."
ABC: "Striking," "Fiery," "Feisty, "Tough."
CBS: "Stamina," "Fire in the Belly."
And, of course, CNN added that he was a "Fighter."
Apparently, Mr. Fiery Feisty was so jazzed up that he forgot SOTU protocol and launched right into his teleprompted recitation before the speaker of the House formally introduced him. But then, Speaker Mike Johnson is one of those Republicans Biden blames for everything he has actually done to wreck our nation.

Hey, at least Johnson did not tear up Biden's final first-term speech like Nancy Pelosi tore up her copy of Donald Trump's last SOTU speech before the r****d 2020 e******n. We filed a criminal complaint against Pelosi for destruction of official government records, but for some reason the DoJ has not charged her.

Biden started with a topic that was low on the list of average v**er concerns: national security. Clearly, he did so in order to draw a comparison between the threat posed by Vladimir Putin and "the gravest threat to our democracy since the Civil War" — that posed by domestic enemy number one, Donald Trump. Mind-numbing.

Clearly, the "Red F**g" threat to our national security and democracy is — drum roll, please — Joe Biden.

Nate Jackson summed up Biden's inflammatory rhetoric, and it is worth noting that among his heavily skewed Democrat viewers, it got the highest negatives of any of his speeches. It probably won't get him much of a bounce in the RCP p**********l polling averages.

Now for some fact-checks on Biden's bald-faced lies.

Most of the so-called "fact-checking" outfits are far left, including FactCheck, an organ of the Annenberg School for Communication at UPenn. Yes, that UPenn, most recently in the news after its woke president Liz Magill resigned because apparently, like Harvard's Claudine Gay and MIT's Sally Kornbluth, she couldn't distinguish the Jew h**ers on her campus.

So, here are some of FactCheck's kinder-gentler conclusions:

Biden boasted that under his leadership "wages keep going up." But over the entirety of Biden's presidency, wages are down when adjusted for inflation.

Biden claimed that the more recent U.S. inflation rate of about 3% is the "lowest in the world!" But several nations reported lower rates than the U.S. in December.

He again claimed to have "cut the federal deficit by over one trillion dollars" — although declining deficits have mostly been the result of expiring emergency p******c spending.

Biden highlighted recent decreases in murder and violent crime rates, but neglected to mention that they are still coming down from their p******c peak.

Biden said he had created a "record" 15 million new jobs. His 14.8 million new jobs is a record for any president in the first three years, but it's not the highest job growth rate that any president has achieved in that period of time.

For the record, regarding Biden's "crime reduction" and "job creation" lies, I eviscerated those a week before his SOTU in "Biden's Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics," along with his plethora of border lies, which FactCheck did not mention. As I noted, "Those infamous lies follow a familiar pattern," which is that after record-setting surges in inflation, crime, and i*****l a***ns crossing our southern border, Biden then claims that a small reduction in those records constitutes his "success."

More accurately, the fact-checks from Campaign for Working Families got to the core of Biden's fabrications:

Biden said he "inherited an economy that was on the brink." That's a lie. Under Donald Trump, our GDP grew 33% in the third quarter of 2020, as the American reopening from the p******c began. In the fourth quarter of 2020, it grew another 4.1%. So, when Joe Biden occupied the Oval Office, the American economy had shot up 37%. How is that anywhere near the brink of collapse? He's counting on people not remembering.

Biden suggested that he turned the trade deficit around. That's false. We have experienced record trade deficits every year of his administration.

Biden said Donald Trump and Republicans will slash Social Security. That's a lie. Much to the chagrin of some libertarians and more than a few Republicans, Trump has flatly refused to touch Social Security. This is another intentional lie to scare seniors.

He's counting on people not remembering a lot of things — like the fact that he had no plan to deal with C***D and that far more people died under his watch than Trump's. He's counting on people not remembering all the pointless mandates and the progressive lockdowns and lockouts from our churches and schools and the damage that did to our children.

Even the New York Times labeled those school closures, supported by Biden and the teachers' unions, as "the most damaging disruption in the history of American education" that set back learning progress "by two decades." Never forget who did that to your children.

Biden claimed that under his policies "consumer confidence is soaring." No, it isn't. Consumer confidence fell last month below a level that often signals a coming recession.

Biden claimed that he cut the federal deficit by $1 trillion. No, he didn't. Even CNN says that claim is "misleading." Biden did not cut spending. The deficit came down in 2021 compared to 2020 because the extraordinary p******c expenditures intended to aid the American people expired.

In fact, CNN has previously gone after both Biden's deficit and debt lies.

But the biggest fact-check surprise was that issued by The Washington Post, which not only called out Biden's deficit claim but gave him one of its rare Bottomless Pinocchio awards for having repeated this lie "at least 30 times since June."

Ironically, I just called out WaPo's fact-checking golden boy, Glenn Kessler, for being an apologist for l*****t lies with his contortionist efforts to spin them away.

So why would WaPo take on Biden now? Because, like The New York Times, the editors want Biden to resign so the Demo delegates can set up the November b****t with a candidate of their choosing.

Finally, there was no "fact-check" on Biden's reference to "Lincoln Riley."

In a column two weeks ago, "Biden's Collaboration in the Murder of Laken Riley," I closed with a memo to Biden: In your upcoming State of the Union address, say her name.

Turns out he