Jill Biden's Taco-Gate 'Scandal' Is REAL Most Important Story Of Day!
By: Wonkette
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I didn't want to give this too much oxygen because it's so absurd, but Monday, Republicans suddenly embraced their hidden wokeness and dogpiled on First Lady Jill Biden because she apparently insulted Latino Americans everywhere. You might think that doesn't seem like something Dr. Biden would do, but why bother spending a few minutes to think when you're a member of the press with access to Twitter?
Sam Stein, Politico's White House editor, tweeted Monday, "FLOTUS, in her speech this afternoon, said the Hispanic community was as 'unique as the breakfast tacos' in San Antonio."
\u201cFLOTUS, in her speech this afternoon, said the Hispanic community was as \u201cunique as the breakfast tacos\u201d in San Antonio.\u201d — Sam Stein (@Sam Stein) 1657574332
Yeah, that's pretty yikes! but it's not what Dr. Biden actually said. I mean, she used those the words as part of a sentence, but you could probably make Ron DeSantis sound almost human if you took random words from his remarks out of any reasonable context.
Here's what really happened: Dr. Biden spoke at a conference in San Antonio for the Latino civil rights and advocacy organization UnidosUS. She praised the work of Raul Yzaguirre, the former president and CEO of the organization, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom last week.
CNN provides the full quote, with some less-than-subtle shade over how Dr. Biden pronounces certain Spanish words.
"Raul helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community -- as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio -- is your strength," Biden said, while mispronouncing the word "bodega."
This is a perfectly gracious and normal statement that acknowledges the Hispanic community's contributions without senselessly stereotyping them. Stein's tweet was drive-by shit-stirring, but it worked. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists released a statement Monday suggesting that the first lady and her speechwriters "take the time in the future to better to better understand the complexities of our people and communities," adding, "We are not tacos," and "do not reduce us to stereotypes."
You'd think a group of journalists would've read Dr. Biden's full remarks. She didn't say Latinos were literally tacos. If she visited Portland, Oregon, and said the residents were as unique and charming as our many roses, she's not saying Portlanders are all high-maintenance flowers.
But nonetheless, this is how the press ran with the story: "Jill Biden slammed for comparing Latino people to tacos," writes Business Insider. "Jill Biden sorry for comparing Latinos to tacos," declares the BBC.
Dr. Biden apologized because she's an emotionally mature adult who's probably appalled that she might've offended anyone, even unintentionally.
"The first lady apologizes that her words conveyed anything but pure admiration and love for the Latino community," Michael LaRosa, the first lady's spokesman, said.
Of course, in our current mixed-up political world, that just cements the gaffe narrative, and the Right is out there acting like Dr. Biden is Karen Walker calling her Latina housekeeper a "tamale." Twitter troll and part-time senator Marco Rubio briefly changed his profile pic to a goddamn taco, and not even one of the delicious ones from San Antonio. It looks like something hastily assembled from one of those taco kits my mom used to buy. (Don't judge us. It was 1980s South Carolina.)
\u201cEntirely appropriate that Marco chooses the most inauthentic taco to play himself.\u201d — Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1657594235
The media ran with this manufactured scandal without pointing out how little credibility Republicans had to criticize Dr. Biden's choice of words. Back in 2016, Donald Trump celebrated Cinco de Mayo by posting a photo of himself grinning like a madman while stalking an innocent taco bowl. (You can look up the photo if you want. This post doesn't need Trump's face in it.) He wrote: "Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!"
Trump would beat Rubio in his home state of Florida just 10 days later, but everyone knows the average taco bowl is a better politician than Marco Rubio.
Anyway, Dr. Biden's taco comments are a nothingburger, and the media outlets who cluelessly functioned as an arm of the RNC should feel ashamed.
OR IS THIS MAYBE THE REAL MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF THE DAY?
\u201cThere's an entirely different reality than the one most of us live in. It's the reality where, at this exact moment, a Jill Biden gaffe is the biggest news story\u201d — Jason Campbell (@Jason Campbell) 1657654480
We guess we will never know.
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"We are not tacos," and "do not reduce us to stereotypes.”
It's the Hispanic journalists who were offended - not some bunch of white malcontents. She should choose her words better. You object to the publicity because, just like the femhy products in the people with penis bathroom, it points to the idiocy of the left.
Isn't it too bad that Hispanic's can't be brainwashed?
The right is surely hoping that this nonsense about Jill Biden overshadows another day of devastating testimony about Donald Trump's crimes on Jan 6.
Seeing as how the Jan. 6 committee is nothing more than a kangaroo court whose members were hand picked in order to find things on Trump whether true or not and it is designed to find him guilty of a crime where none exists, there is no need to find anything out in what Jill Biden says. She in the big picture of thinks she is a nobody.
Do you have even the slightest idea what you are talking about? It doesnt seem like it.
“…to find things on Trump whether true or not and it is designed to find him guilty of a crime where none exists…”
At what point will one acknowledge that the previous president is culpable for his actions?
His defenders should demand he himself testify under oath…the only thing left lest they have nothing, absolutely nothing further to incomprehensibly defend.
I absolutely know what I am talking about. The Jan 6th committee is the biggest fraud in the last 200 years. Do you know what your talking about or is it just you TDS talking
You sound like a fool.
You looking in the mirror while typing again?
So, for you to know what a fool sounds like, do you record your voice and play it over and over?
no, i look at your picture.
Your a lucky person to be able to see such a handsome man to look at. When I want to think like you or other lefties I just go to the nearest Andy Gump portable toilet and look in the hole where the seat is
You hear pictures?
Synesthesia is a thing.
She totally stereotyped and insulted Hispanics. Hardly anyone is paying attention to the Jan 6 clown show
“Hardly anyone is paying attention to the Jan 6 clown show…”
Wake up, man.
Hardly anyone on my ignore list is paying attention to the Jan 6 clown show...
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