Hot mic picks up Joe Biden swearing at FOX’s Peter Doocey.
QUICK FACTS:
- Social media posts show Joe Biden swore at Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocey on Monday.
- Doocey can be heard asking Biden about inflation.
- Biden, sitting at a table with a recording microphone inches from his face, responded sarcastically, “That’s a great asset. More inflation.”
- But Biden went on to name-call the correspondent, saying, “What a stupid son of a b—-.”
- CNN’s Jake Tapper even remarked how Biden knew the microphone was “right in front of him,” adding that the crude remark “seemed a little bit more blatant” than usual.
- “He didn’t want to take any questions off-topic,” Doocy told “Special Report” host Bret Baier less than an hour after the incident, The New York Post reports. “He was at an event about inflation, and so I asked one on inflation.”
BIDEN THE ‘UNIFIER’:
- Joe Biden has been referred to as a “unifier,” one commentator writing, “Joe Biden campaigned on unifying a nation badly fractured by divisive demagogues who preached hatred for fellow citizens on the basis of their religion, country of origin and political affiliation.”
- “Thus far, President Biden is doing just that,” the commentator declared.
- Biden has elsewhere said it is “time to heal” the U.S., during a speech, vowing “not to divide but to unify” the country.
BACKGROUND:
- The president’s vulgar insult was cut from the White House video feed but was audible on video streamed by C-SPAN, The Post notes.
- On Thursday, Biden attacked a different Fox News reporter, Jacqui Heinrich, after she shouted, “Why are you waiting on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to make the first move, sir?”
- “What a stupid question,” Biden said.
