Jan 29, 2020

AP Changes Story on Joe Biden Refusal to Back Nominee

Updated - The Associated Press reported a story by Bill Barrow in Iowa yesterday with the headline, "Biden won't commit to backing Sanders if he's the nominee."

Today, the same AP piece's headline reads: "Biden won’t say whether Sanders could unify Dems as nominee."

The new formulation in the headline changes the meaning from Joe Biden committing a 'unity' foul to Bernie Sanders generating disunity.

The lead graf also has been changed from "Former Vice President Joe Biden stopped short Tuesday of saying he’d support Bernie Sanders if the progressive Vermont senator wins the Democratic presidential nomination," to "Former Vice President Joe Biden wouldn’t say Tuesday whether he thinks Bernie Sanders could effectively unify the Democrats if the Vermont senator wins the party’s presidential nomination."

The AP explains: "This story has been corrected to show that Biden was questioned on whether Sanders could unite the party as the nominee, not whether Biden would support Sanders if he’s the nominee."

Biden said,  "I just think that it depends upon how we treat one another between now and the time we have a nominee." It is Biden's support.

"The Biden campaign said [later] Tuesday afternoon that the former vice president would support the eventual nominee," reported the AP.

Who needs the Biden campaign to clean up Joe's mess when they have corporate press?

This AP fronting for the Democratic Party establishment exemplifies the desperation to stop the Bernie Sanders campaign.
The corporate media and Democrats live in a small world. As Glenn Greenwald laughs off the latest round of ridiculousness:
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