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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 168 - Confronting the Cultural Appropriation of Joe Biden :: Part 1 of 2

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This is the biggest story released yet to air on The Breakdown. For nearly 50 years Joe Biden has pretended to have been an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. The time has come to confront it. Today and tomorrow, Shaun systematically breaks down Biden's lies and what they mean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

For the past two months, I've been researching every single statement Joe Biden has made about being a protester, a marcher, a demonstrator, someone who sat in in restaurants and movie theaters.

0:17.0

And what I discovered disturbed me so much that I wrote a special piece that I just released about it detailing 31 different

0:27.8

lies that Joe Biden has told all about his quote unquote involvement in the civil rights movement.

0:35.0

When in 1987 he already apologized and said he had nothing to do with it.

0:42.0

Today I'm going to unpack and explain it.

0:45.0

Buckle up. Let's get into the facts. Let's know the truth. This is Sean King and you are

0:51.6

listening to The Breakdown.

0:54.0

Break down.

0:55.0

The Breakdown.

0:58.0

Break down. The Breakdown. In 1987 when Joe Biden was running for president for the very first time.

1:13.4

His campaign got swallowed up in a swarm of lies

1:18.7

that Joe Biden told about himself and about his work, and he told these lies all over the country.

1:25.0

First, Biden was caught plagiarizing a famous speech from British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock, including parts of the speech that came

1:36.8

straight from Kinnock's personal life that simply were not true for Joe Biden. Then Biden plagiarized yet another speech from the late

1:46.5

Robert Kennedy and then another speech from President Kennedy and then another speech

1:51.0

from Hubert Humphrey.

1:53.0

And you have to understand, this was pre-internet, pre-social media,

1:59.0

and something in Joe Biden's mind

2:02.0

made him think that he could get away with it. And he didn't,

2:03.0

could get away with it.

2:05.0

And he didn't.

2:06.8

And it ultimately tanked his entire campaign.

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