FLASHBACK: Journos Trashed ‘Token’ Tim Scott’s Response to Biden SOTU

Let’s face it. Besides being an ineffectual leader President Joe Biden is utterly terrible at delivering public speeches. He’s so bad even the liberal press recognized it from his very first Joint Address to Congress.

His lame 2021 speech was a good example of how some people tried to create a positive. Back then NBC News National Political Reporter Sahil Kapur cheered “Biden’s superpower is….he makes massive multi-trillion dollar FDR size liberal policy sound moderate and middle of the road, just by the way he talks about them.” 

Instead of trying to make lemonade out of Biden’s lemon of an address they quickly turned their sites on the Republican Response. So if tonight’s speech is another dud, expect the liberal journos to spend most of their time attacking the GOP response and Republicans in general.

Back in 2021 Republican Senator Tim Scott caused media heads to explode when he declared “America is not a racist country.” Even though President Biden, Vice President Kamala HarrisHouse Majority Whip Jim Clyburn ended up agreeing with Scott, liberal correspondents and hosts determined it wasn’t a Republican’s place to say it. 

For that and his dismantling of the media’s take that the Georgia election law was the new “Jim Crow,”The disgustingly disgusting description of the South Carolina black Republican senator was that he is a “token” “tap dancer” who was being pulled by the “strings” to offer up “Republican pablum” and whom Harriet Tubman “would have left behind.”

Prior to Scott’s speech, The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler embarrassed himself with a lame “Fact Check” aimed at Scott’s inspiring family history. 

Hollywood’s elite also joined the fray. ABC’sThe View co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar lectured Scott about America’s history of racism and ABC’s late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel joked that Scott was out of touch. It was remarkable, considering that Kimmel, Behar And GoldbergAccused in Blackface Scandals 

Here are just some of the sickening attacks against Scott.   

Tiffany Crosses the Line in Attacking “Token” “Tap Dancer” Tim Scott 

Tiffany Cross as your Host: “This week, the sole black Republican in the Senate sounded a stone fool when he said this.”
[Clip of Senator Tim Scott: “Hear me clearly — America is not a racist country.”]…
Cross: “Tim Scott does not represent any constituency other than the small number of sleepy, slow-witted sufferers of Stockholm syndrome who get elevated to prominence for repeating a false narrative about this country that makes conservative white people feel comfortable….A lesson I’ve learned is: Don’t argue with people Harriet Tubman would have left behind. And, sure, Tim Scott has spoken out about his encounters with law enforcement….but there are two sides to every token, so thirsty for white approval, this dude actually stood on the national stage to defend the voter suppression law in Georgia…The ability to shame the ancestors and appease the oppressors all in one speech, that’s extreme….Perhaps this was merely Tim Scott’s audition to be Sam Jackson’s understudy in the film Django.”  
— MSNBC’s Cross ConnectionApril 1, 2021. 
 

Scott = Puppet 

Tiffany Cross as your Host: “I want to play a clip from Senator Tim Scott and his completely asinine remarks that he made on the voting law in Georgia….What do you make of those ridiculous comments?”
Fernand Amandi, a political analyst at MSNBC: “Well, you can almost see the strings being pulled behind Senator Scott as he is articulating the very Orwellian talking points that he says where black means white and up means down and left means right.” 
— MSNBC’s Cross ConnectionApril 1, 2021. 

“Indefensible” to Say America is Not a Racist Country

“Tim Scott even before this last incident, he wrote a month or so ago that quote, unquote ‘woke supremacy’ was worse than white supremacy or as bad as white supremacy. And it was an astounding thing to say….It’s indefensible to make these comments in the context of how many — I’ve lost track of how many black people have been killed — unarmed black people have been killed this month in encounters with police. So if he was interested in having a debate on whether America is a racist nation, I don’t agree with Kamala Hariri. Yes, this is a racist country.” 
—The New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb on MSNBC’s ReidOut29 April 2021

Does Scott’s Truth-Telling “Complicate Efforts at Police Reform?”

Chuck Todd, Host: “Amid anger over policing —”
Attorney Ben Crump “It was a kill shot to the back of the head.”
Todd: “Could this comment from Senator Tim Scott —”
Sen. Tim Scott: “America is not a racist country.”
Todd: “Complicate efforts at police reform?”
— NBC’s Meet the PressThis was published on May 2, 2021.

“Shocked” and “Embarrassed” by Tim Scott’s “Republican Pablum” 

“I was surprised, to be honest with you. This [Sen. Tim Scott’s response to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress ]This was the standard Republican pablum. These could have come from Mike Lee and Tom Cotton. ‘America isn’t a racist country. There’s no racism here.’ I’m not sure what his purpose was. To me, his audience was conservative white Republicans angry about certain issues. He mentioned cancel culture and similar cultural references that you hear on Fox News. He was there to give them a hand. It was disappointing….He came out and lied about the Georgia bill saying ‘It’s easier to vote in Georgia than in New York….I am shocked and a bit embarrassed for him.” 
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s live coverage of President Joe Biden’s address to Congress, April 28, 2021.

Tim Scott’s “Low-Rent” Poem 

Don Lemon is your host “I want to get your take on what we heard from Senator Tim Scott last night about this country not being racist.”
CNN’s United Shades of America host W. Kamau Bell: “No, don’t do it to me, Don! No!”
Lemon: “Why not? Listen. Let me tell you what he said….He said the original sin isn’t the end of the story, it is a story of redemption. I’d love to hear your opinions on the statement. Your reaction is what I have gathered. Go on.”
Bell: “I mean, it sounds like a low-rent Cummings ee poem. I don’t know what that was. It was built on racism. It was built on the genocide on the native Americans and it was built on the transatlantic slave trade for slaving African people….The country we all live in right now, we all, in some way, are benefiting from that. Although blacks aren’t as well off as their white counterparts, they are still sitting on native land taken from them by enslaved Africans. That’s the truth. And the fact that we were enslaved and when we got our freedom, our quote/unquote ‘freedom,’ we were never restored whole.”
— CNN Tonight With Don Lemon29 April 2021 

“Uncle Tim” Scott

“Tim Scott gets called Uncle Tom by progressives. But he’s an Uncle Tim.”
— April 28, 2021 tweet by former MSNBC host Toure.

Tim Scott, View Lectures 

Whoopi Goldberg, co-host: “Joy, what country is Tim Scott living in?”…
Co-host Joy Behar: “Tim Scott, he does not seem to understand — and a lot of them don’t seem to understand the difference between a racist country and systemic — systemic racism. They don’t seem to get the difference. Yes, maybe it’s not a racist country. Perhaps Americans aren’t racist, at least not in the vast majority. But we live in a country with systemic racism….The fact that Tim Scott cannot acknowledge this is appalling.”…
Sunny Hostin is the co-host “I was very disappointed in Tim Scott saying that — using these buzz words like socialism. Saying things like you shouldn’t really teach white children about racism because it makes them feel like oppressors, um that sort of — this Republican ideology right now. I was disappointed that he said America is not a racist country without also talking about the systemic racism that is plaguing this country.”
— ABC’s The View29 April 2021 

Out of Touch “Uncle Tim” Scott Refuses to Call Republicans Racist 

“After the speech an amazing thing happened, every black Republican Senator got together to let the American people know the Republican Party isn’t racist….And then Tim promptly returned to the sensory deprivation egg he calls home.”
— Host Jimmy Kimmel on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel LiveApril 29, 2021. Kimmel didn’t inform his audience that only two of the 50 Democratic senators are black. 

“Uncle Tim lost me when he said Biden was dividing us after he had sat quietly while Tang destroyed this country for four years. #BoyBye.”
— April 29, 2021 tweet by actress Yvette Nicole Brown.