SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76! Biden issues new campaign ad saying “We don’t feel no ways tired:”

Joe Biden’s apparent penchant for pandering to minority voters as a political tactic is insulting, and some of his remarks while campaigning in the South are “disgusting,” according to National Review Online’s Deroy Murdock.

On “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host played a clip of Biden’s latest campaign ad, which is running in South Carolina. The former Vice President appears to adopt a slight southern drawl and borrows a famous gospel lyric from the Rev. James Cleveland.

“We don’t feel no ways tired — We’ve come too far from where we started from. Nobody told us the road would be easy,” Biden says over a montage of images and video clips, before closing the ad by saying: “Let’s take back this country now.”

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Murdock focused on Biden’s comments and ones he has made in the past, saying that black voters will not receive the statements as the ex-vice president intends.

“I’m fascinated by this idea that when Democrats run to the south they have to adopt southern accents,” he said, adding that Hillary Clinton has done the same thing.

Murdock then recalled what he considered an especially “disgusting” comment by Biden when the then-vice president was stumping for President Obama’s reelection in 2012. At a speech in Danville, Va., Biden claimed to an audience that included many African-Americans that if Mitt Romney and the Republicans won the election, they would “put y’all back in chains” by loosening restrictions on financial institutions.

“It’s like outtakes from ‘Gone With the Wind’ — very odd, very inappropriate and very stupid,” said Murdock.

Indeed it is; and as Murdock alluded to above, Hillary didn’t feel no ways tired in 2007 either, as this classic Hot Air “Vent” clip from back then featuring Bryan Preston and Michelle Malkin reminds us:

WHY IT’S HARD TO BE THE BABYLON BEE IN 2020: New Yorker: The Queer Opposition to Pete Buttigieg, Explained. “The notion that some of us think Buttigieg is not gay enough has an identifiable relationship to the facts.”

OF COURSE THEY DO: Media largely ignore Jussie Smollett indictments, offer zero primetime coverage.

They wouldn’t want to hurt business for the Southern Poverty Law Center, now would they?

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: President Trump Starts to Drain the Swamp, Yanks Liu.

Trump has now learned the details of what is going on inside one Justice Department office, the D.C. United States Attorney’s office.  He also learned details about people who accepted appointments in his administration and took their jobs while holding their noses.

This was the week that Trump got his sea-legs. He campaigned on draining the swamp, and he has learned how subtle and how sophisticated the swamp is.

Read the whole thing.

NEVERTRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: Nicolle Wallace: ‘I Will Gladly, Easily, Handily Vote for Bernie Sanders.’ “Given her terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, on one level it’s not surprising to learn that Nicolle Wallace would vote for Bernie Sanders over President Trump. But to hear the words actually come from the lips of this former aide to President George W. Bush and John McCain still has some residual shock value, at least for this NewsBuster,” Mark Finkelstein writes.

CAN’T HELP LOVIN’ THAT IMAM OF MINE: Germany Can’t Stop Loving Iran.

For example: the historical dimension. Germany and Iran have been allied since the beginning of the last century; a relationship that began because Iran (then called Persia) required foreign technical support for the development of infrastructure and industry. Persian leaders could have turned to other European countries for assistance but distrusted the imperial powers of Great Britain and France, and so looked to Germany. Germany needed Persia because it was the only country rich in raw materials but as of yet “unclaimed” in the 19th-century struggle for colonies among Europe’s “great powers.” Thus, in the mid-1920s, Germany provided Iran with both the backbone of its industrial infrastructure and the trained personnel needed to run it. Soon the “German work ethic” gained a literally legendary reputation, which was later exploited by Nazi propaganda. Between 1933 and 1941, the Nazi share of Iranian imports rose from 11% to 43%, while the German share of Iranian exports rose from 19% to 47%. Another aspect of the Nazi period, which continues to be important in Iran, was pointed out in 1996 by Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani: “Our relations have always been good. Both [peoples] are of the Aryan race.”

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PETER THIEL: Back To The Future. “When Boeing introduced its flagship 707 jet airliner in 1958, the power to cruise at 977 kilometers per hour did more than enable routine transcontinental commercial flights. It fed the optimistic self-understanding of a society proud to have entered the Jet Age. More than sixty years later, we are not moving any faster. Boeing’s latest plane, the 737 MAX, has a cruising speed of just 839 kilometers per hour—to say nothing of its more catastrophic limitations. The since-retired 707 was a success. The new MAX looks like a failure.”

A LONG AND INTERESTING BLOG POST on the coronavirus situation.

MACRON CAN’T CATCH A BREAK: Griveaux Paris race: Sex video prompts Macron ally to step down.

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG (CONT’D): NASA: Massive asteroid close call due Saturday, but won’t be hitting Earth.

OPEN THREAD: Don’t waste this unique opportunity.

GOOD: New antibiotics have a unique way of killing bacteria.

DUKAKIS AFTER DARK, THE NEXT GENERATION:

● Shot: “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy!”

—Jon Lovitz as Michael Dukakis, Saturday Night Live’s parody of the Bush-Dukakis debates, October 8, 1988.

● Chaser: “‘I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot,’” said presidential candidate John Kerry when he learned he was losing in the polls.”

—Larry Elder, “Why Kerry Got Wiped Out During the Latest Election,” Capitalism Magazine, November 11, 2004.

● Yangover: Andrew Yang: ‘I Can’t Believe I Lost to These People.’

—The Washington Free Beacon, Wednesday.

(Classical reference in headline.)

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COMMIE ENDORSES COMMIE: De Blasio to endorse Bernie Sanders.

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