Epoch Times - Debunking Biden’s Claim of Civil Rights Movement Involvement | Larry Elder Show
Aired: 2021-01-14
Duration: 09:53


=== Organizing Sunday Protests (05:55) ===

[00:00:03]  Who knew that Joe Biden in the 60s participated in protests against segregation?
[00:00:10]  I got my education, Reverend Doc, in the black church.
[00:00:14]  Not a joke.
[00:00:15]  Because when we used to get organized on Sundays to go out and desegregate movie theaters and things like that, we'd do it through the black church.
[00:00:23]  Say what?
[00:00:24]  We used to get organized on Sundays to go out and desegregate movie theaters and things like that.
[00:00:30]  We used to get organized on Sundays and desegregate movie theaters and things like that, end of quote.
[00:00:37]  Really?
[00:00:39]  You're... sure?
[00:00:46]  When I marched in the civil rights movement, I did not march with a 12-point program.
[00:00:53]  I marched with tens of thousands of others.
[00:00:55]  Now in 1983 At the New Jersey Democratic Convention, Joe Biden said this.
[00:01:00]  When I was 17, I participated in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses.
[00:01:07]  My stomach turned upon hearing the voices of Falvis and Wallace, Biden continued, referring to the segregationist governors of Arkansas and Alabama, respectively.
[00:01:18]  My soul raged on seeing Bull Connor and his dogs.
[00:01:22]  End of quote.
[00:01:24]  You can never whip these birds if you don't keep you and them separate.
[00:01:29]  I found that out in Birmingham.
[00:01:31]  You've got to keep the white and the black separate.
[00:01:34]  February 1987 at the California Credit Convention.
[00:01:39]  When I was 17 years old, like many of you, I participated in sit-ins to desegregate the restaurants and movie houses of Wilmington, Delaware.
[00:01:48]  Don't tell that to the New York Times.
[00:01:52]  And the New York Times reports, quote, more than once, advisors had gently reminded Mr.
[00:01:56]  Biden of the problem with this formulation.
[00:01:58]  He had not actually marched during the civil rights movement.
[00:02:01]  And more than once, Mr.
[00:02:02]  Biden assured them that he understood and kept telling the story anyway.
[00:02:07]  And don't tell the center of left publication The Atlantic.
[00:02:11]  Here's what they wrote.
[00:02:12]  By September 1987, his campaign press secretary clarified to the New York Times that Biden did participate in action to desegregate one restaurant and one movie theater.
[00:02:25]  Or, as Biden once explained at a 1987 news conference, he had been concerned about civil rights as a teenager, but he was not out marching.
[00:02:35]  End of quote.
[00:02:36]  Okay, so Joe scaled it down to protesting one theater and one restaurant.
[00:02:43]  And so I got involved in desegregating...
[00:02:45]  I was no big shakes, Reverend in the Civil Rights Movement.
[00:02:47]  I was just a kid.
[00:02:49]  I got involved in desegregating movie theaters and helping...
[00:02:53]  You may remember Reverend Moyer in Delaware and Herman Holloway, organized voter registration drives, coming out of black churches on Sundays figuring how we were going to move.
[00:03:05]  But is there even evidence of this more scaled-down claim?
[00:03:08]  Not according to the Washington Examiner.
[00:03:11]  Here's what they said.
[00:03:12]  The problem is, there is no evidence that Biden had any involvement in the civil rights movement in the 1960s beyond being a spectator as he went to college, became a lawyer, ran for office, being elected to Newcastle County Council in Delaware, the beginning of 46 uninterrupted years in public office." But, but, but, what about the protests against a movie theater and a restaurant in Wilmington, Delaware?
[00:03:39]  Back to the Washington Examiner.
[00:03:41]  The Baltimore Sun interviewed Biden in 1986 and reported, As a young man, he took part in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants along U.S. 40 in Delaware.
[00:03:53]  A Morning News article in September 1975 said that Biden joined in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants along U.S. 40 before he joined the Senate.
[00:04:04]  End of quote.
[00:04:06]  But plot twist!
[00:04:08]  Civil rights activists in Wilmington and the University of Delaware, while Biden was a student, said they don't recall him participating in any demonstrations.
[00:04:18]  A historian who wrote a book about the Route 40 project, referring to the action to desegregate restaurants along that route, and the Freedom Riders movement, said he was unaware of Biden's involvement.
[00:04:32]  One of the group's leaders at the University of Delaware, where Biden was a student, Dwayne Nichols, a graduate student at the time, told the Washington Examiner that he compiled the list of segregated restaurants that CORE targeted along Route 40.
[00:04:47]  He does not recall Biden participating in protest activities." End of quote.
[00:04:54]  I remember when I was in Burma during the war.
[00:04:57]  I was captured by the enemy and gave only my name, rank, and serial number in spite of being subjected to the most fiendish torture ever devised by man.
[00:05:05]  The water torture.
[00:05:07]  A drop of water on the forehead every minute for 300 gallons.
[00:05:11]  300 gallons, Mr.
[00:05:13]  Brown, would you believe it?
[00:05:13]  That's pretty hard to believe.
[00:05:15]  Would you believe a quart?
[00:05:21]  What if they came by once a day with a glass of water and an eyedropper?
[00:05:29]  Is Joe losing it?
[00:05:30]  And by the way, you know, I sit on the stand and it get hot.
[00:05:34]  I got a lot of, I got hairy legs that turn, that, that, that, that, that, that turn blonde in the sun.

=== Comparing Notes with Biden (03:38) ===

[00:05:43]  And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again.
[00:05:52]  They'd look at it.
[00:05:53]  So I learned about roaches.
[00:05:54]  I learned about kids jumping on my lap.
[00:05:56]  And I've loved kids jumping on my lap.
[00:06:02]  And the way Biden teed off on the Iowa voter who dared ask him about Hunter Biden, Joe Biden was not amused.
[00:06:09]  We all know Trump has been messing around in the Ukraine over there, holding their foreign aid for them to come up, saying they're going to investigate you.
[00:06:24]  We know all about that.
[00:06:27]  And he's a no-backer, and we go after that.
[00:06:31]  But you, on the other hand, fetch your son over there to get a job and work for a gas company, but he had no experience with gas or nothing, in order to get access to the public, for the president.
[00:06:48]  So you're selling access to the president just like he does.
[00:06:53]  You're a damn liar, man.
[00:06:54]  That's not true.
[00:06:55]  And no one has ever said that?
[00:06:57]  No one has heard that?
[00:06:58]  You see it on the TV? No, I know you do.
[00:07:02]  And by the way, that's why I'm not sedentary.
[00:07:04]  I get up and...
[00:07:06]  No, let him go.
[00:07:09]  Let him go.
[00:07:09]  Look, the reason I'm running is because I've been around a long time and I know more than most people now.
[00:07:14]  And I can get things done.
[00:07:15]  That's why I'm running.
[00:07:16]  And you want to check my shape, man.
[00:07:18]  Let's do push-ups together, man.
[00:07:20]  Let's run.
[00:07:20]  Come on, let's do whatever you want to do.
[00:07:22]  Let's take a nice detail.
[00:07:24]  I want to switch gears and ask you about what happened the other day at your town hall, because you got a lot of attention for it.
[00:07:35]  A man stood up and started throwing false allegations your way about your son Hunter Biden and his work in Ukraine and your work as vice president then in Ukraine.
[00:07:46]  And you responded by calling him a damn liar, and then you challenged him to push-ups, and then you asked him for an IQ test?
[00:07:55]  No, he came along, and he always said, he said he's entitled to do this.
[00:07:59]  He said, you're too old.
[00:08:01]  He said, you're too old.
[00:08:02]  I can't vote for somebody as old as you.
[00:08:04]  I said, okay.
[00:08:05]  And he was challenging what kind of shape.
[00:08:07]  So I kidded.
[00:08:07]  I said, you want to do a push-up contest?
[00:08:09]  I was joking.
[00:08:11]  Look, I'm in pretty good shape.
[00:08:12]  Which is what Donald Trump says a lot.
[00:08:13]  Hey, you can't take a joke?
[00:08:15]  I was joking.
[00:08:15]  No, no, no, no, no.
[00:08:17]  Don't compare me to Donald Trump.
[00:08:19]  Don't do that.
[00:08:20]  Yes, they did.
[00:08:22]  They said to me, the woman you met at the end, 94-year-old Mary, said to me, I was so disappointed in him.
[00:08:29]  This is a direct quote.
[00:08:31]  That is not the Joe I know.
[00:08:32]  He sounded like Donald Trump in that clip.
[00:08:34]  Well, look, what Donald Trump says, he makes fun of people.
[00:08:37]  He belittles people.
[00:08:39]  He lies.
[00:08:40]  I don't do any of those things.
[00:08:43]  Period.
[00:08:44]  Hey, do you ever notice where Biden keeps saying he's in the wrong state?
[00:08:47]  Like if he's in Ohio, it's great to be in Iowa tonight.
[00:08:52]  If he's in Pennsylvania, it's wonderful to be in the state of Delaware.
[00:08:56]  What is wrong with this guy?
[00:08:59]  And we're going to need subtitles to figure out what the devil Joe Biden was talking about in this speech to the Teamsters.
[00:09:05]  See if you can follow this.

=== Management Pay Equity (00:46) ===

[00:09:07]  And the third thing is, last year alone, $1.2 billion in overtime was denied by our hourly workers who were not unionized.
[00:09:16]  $1.2 billion.
[00:09:17]  So you go ahead and you stack spaghetti sauce at a store in a supermarket.
[00:09:22]  You control the guy or the woman who runs out the carts on a forklift.
[00:09:29]  What happens?
[00:09:30]  They make you management.
[00:09:32]  You can't get paid overtime.
[00:09:35]  And you see it happening with labor as well.
[00:09:36]  So the bottom line is, I'm for you because America needs you to grow.
[00:09:43]  Now, who can argue with that?
[00:09:49]  I'm Larry Elder, and this has been the Larry Elder Show for Epic Times.