Biden Says He Has Cancer, Journos Scramble to Spin It
"You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window"
Oh, Joe Biden is doing just fine. Why do you ask?
You heard that right. President Biden just announced he has cancer. But as you’re about to learn: Never mind what you heard.
To give you the full context, here’s a transcript of that part of his speech, courtesy of the White House:
“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. And all the prevailing winds were our way.
“I just lived up the road. 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 know 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 (sic) have cancer. And why can— for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.”
To recap: The president of the United States just said he has cancer, present tense, and claimed he got it because of the oil refineries near his childhood home. That’s what he said. Those were his own words.
Do you want to know more? Do you have questions? Are you curious at all?
If not, you must be a journalist.