By Mark Finkelstein, August 6th, 2020

Imagine an angry President Trump asking a black journalist if he's a "junkie." Now imagine the liberal media's Breaking News, 24/7 coverage of the incident, complete with calls for his resignation, cries about racist stereotyping, etc. Who knows: the MSM might even have managed to spark a new round of riots.

But it wasn't President Trump who had made the insulting suggestion. Rather, an angry Joe Biden yesterday asked a black journalist if he were a "junkie," after imagining him being subjected to a test for "cocaine." So, naturally, the opening hour of MSNBC's Morning Joe, and CNN's New Day . . . made absolutely no mention of the incident.

The journalist in question was Errol Barnett of CBS, who interviewed Biden during a virtual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. What set Biden off was Barnett's question as to whether Biden had taken a "cognitive test." Biden twice sprinkled his trademark "c'mon man" into the confrontation.

Rather than reporting Biden's "are you a junkie?" blast, New Day and Morning Joe tried to flip the script on mental acuity. CNN brought on Maggie Haberman of the New York Times/CNN to agree with New Day host Alisyn Camerota's suggestion that Trump can't "intellectually grasp" his briefings on the coronavirus.

For its part, Morning Joe ran a montage, taken from Trevor Noah's Daily Show, of some Trump verbal stumbles, juxtaposed with comments from conservatives questioning Biden's brain. Scarborough pretended that the conservatives had actually been aiming their barbs at the president.

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