Willie R. Tubbs, FISM News
Perhaps President Joe Biden is better for American jobs than Republicans think. Doing damage control for the president’s gaffes by now has to be functioning as a cottage industry.
In the latest, though likely not last, instance of Biden either having a lack of clarity moment or purposefully lying to make a point, the president told the audience gathered near a power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, that he had cancer. Had it been true, the revelation would have been both newsworthy as he claimed the cancer was caused by exposure to oil. The statement also would place White House medical personnel under fire for withholding information, were the announcement based in reality.
The White House later clarified, however, that the president was referring to non-melanoma skin cancer which he had been treated for prior to assuming office. While this explanation certainly cleared confusion as to the president’s health, it did nothing to smooth over how wrong or dishonest the president had been or just how far Biden had to stretch to make the connection between his health and exposure to oil.
In this instance, Biden was trying to emphasize the necessity of the climate change executive orders he was announcing. As with many of the president’s previous misspeaks, the problem began when Biden began telling a story about Delaware.
“[White House National Climate Advisor] Gina McCarthy, a former regulator in Massachusetts, was telling me on the way up how folks used to get a rag out and wipe the gunk off of their car’s windshields in the morning just to be able to drive — not very much unlike where I grew up in a place called Claymont, Delaware — which has more oil refineries than Houston, Texas, had in its region — just across the line in Pennsylvania,” Biden said. “And all the prevailing winds were our way.”
Biden briefly deviated into a recounting of his mother’s preferred method of getting him to school, which led to his exposure to oil that, in the president’s mind, led to cancer that he no longer has.
“I just lived up the road,” Biden said. “I just — in an apartment complex when we moved to Delaware. And just up the road was a little school I went to, Holy Rosary grade school. And because it was a four-lane highway that was accessible, my mother drove us and — rather than us be able to walk.
“And guess what? The first frost, you knew what was happening. You had to put on your windshield wipers to get, literally, the oil slick off the window. That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up [with] have cancer and why can — for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.”
Joe Biden leaves crowd STUNNED and wondering whether he’s just battling with the teleprompter AGAIN when he announces he has CANCER:
“That’s why I, and so damn many other people I grew up with, have cancer.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 20, 2022
The president did not explain, and by strict scientific fact could not explain, how his cancer – the nature of which he either forgot or chose not to share – was a result of his contact with oil.
Perhaps sensing his mistake, Biden tried to quickly move on.
“But that’s the past, and we’re going to get — we’re going to build a different future with one — one with clean energy, good-paying jobs,” Biden said.