Newspaper runs anti-Biden advertorial — with racial slurs
The publisher for the Miami New Times is offering a mea culpa after the newspaper printed a lengthy "advertorial" attacking President Joe Biden, which used the N-word, Axios reported on Thursday.
"Miami New Times publisher Adam Simon tells Axios the ad is unacceptable and he's changing the alt weekly's ad review process," reported Martin Vassolo. "Normally, he said, staffers — including himself — review ads prior to publication. But in this case, the ad came in past their deadline and Simon did not review it. The New Times will no longer take ads so late that they can't be reviewed, he said. 'Naturally, had I seen it, which I should have, I would not have let it run as is.'"
The ad, whose buyer was not disclosed, directs readers to the website for Blacks for Trump, and features "JOE BIDEN SAYS 'N-----'" prominently at the top.
The article is taking a well-known Biden speech from 1985 out of context, in which Biden, while serving in the Senate, was quoting verbatim the racial slurs uttered by Louisiana state legislators at William Bradford Reynolds in a hearing, as an example of why Reynolds was unqualified for his nomination to serve as U.S. deputy attorney general.
In the quote in question, Biden pointed out that Bradford's fellow lawmakers had said, “We already have a n----- mayor, we don’t need any more n----- big shots!” as an argument for gerrymandering Lousiana's congressional districts to prevent the election of Black lawmakers, a plan which Reynolds was accused of helping them carry out despite knowing the racial animus behind it.
Former President Donald Trump is currently trying to improve his low numbers with Black voters, and while some polling has suggested he has made gains since 2020, he is still struggling greatly with the demographic — a point driven home when Trump held a campaign event in a Black church in Detroit, where nearly all the attendees were white.
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