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A Pittsburgh news outlet and its viewers were inadvertently reminded of the unpredictable nature of live TV when someone perhaps in the control room accidentally posted a graphic of President Joe Biden at an inopportune time during the evening news.
In what one social media user satirically described as the “greatest live TV moment of all time,” when a WTAE-TV news anchor reported on a story that “A 71-year-old man was accused of inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl at the Walmart in West Mifflin Sunday afternoon,” an image of Biden above a caption reading “State of the Union Tonight” appeared briefly.
The clip, which has generated two million views on Twitter and about 600,000 on YouTube so far, prompted much mirth on social media, given Biden’s reputation in certain contexts which had led to the president’s critics fairly or unfairly giving him the derisive nickname “Creepy Joe.”
Oops 😬 🤭 pic.twitter.com/ccvp81MJfr
— GuyFrees (@GuyFrees) March 1, 2022
That is, over the years, a lot of footage has been compiled about Biden, now 79, getting overly friendly with young females.
The @nytimes is right. There’s NOTHING CREEPY at all about how @JoeBiden interacts with the kids in this 4+ min long video.
All the touching & hair sniffing is TOTALLY APPROPRIATE & 100% NORMAL. Everyone does it!
I'm a bad person for mocking him & thinking it's disgusting!!!🙄 pic.twitter.com/DgQOnaK8q6
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 16, 2020
According to WTAE, the actual suspect in the case, which has nothing whatsoever to do with Joe Biden, allegedly grabbed the pre-teen inappropriately in the bread aisle of the Pittsburgh-area retail outlet where she was shopping with her mom. Cops reportedly charged the suspect with indecent assault and unlawful contact with a minor. He has denied the allegations, and he is due back in court next week.
Entirely separately, a far more serious allegation than Biden’s mere touching or hair-sniffing was leveled by former U.S. Senate staffer Tara Reade.
She claimed that that Joe Biden allegedly sexually assaulted her in 1993 when she was an aide in the then-Delaware Senator’s Capitol Hill office. Biden denied this allegation.
Here is a sample of the enormous reaction on Twitter to the viral WTAE clip:
omfg lol. this is gonna be trending very shortly
— Skete Davidson (@WhitePeopleRuin) March 2, 2022
Freudian slip
— HR5404🐸 (@freefanniemae) March 1, 2022
I about fell out of my chair laughing at this. Someone messed up bigly.
— Jhenson Unwilling Citizen of new Socialist America (@JoyceBHenson2) March 1, 2022
This is my local news station.
OMG.
🤣
— Don’tBeAJagoff 😑 (@Keljo1991) March 1, 2022
This just made my whole day !!
— [email protected] (@TTRoxxx) March 1, 2022
Lmfao im fckn dead!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
— NikkiB83 (@Nikki95168213) March 2, 2022
Well this wins the internet today!
😂😂😂— 🇺🇸Joe Falgore🇺🇸 (@RagingBull58) March 2, 2022
This Clip will get more views that the State of the Union
— VISION 🇦🇺 (@vision_iii) March 2, 2022
Hahaha pic.twitter.com/m0nlCwvZz3
— rm (@Roxiepurgatory) March 2, 2022
PURE GOLD!!!!
— ummmm, ok, I guess (@SystemicRealism) March 2, 2022
That is really funny. Whoever made that mistake or did they should be given high fives for making us laugh. Please don’t fire him or her.
— Jamie Soto (@jamiesoto222) March 2, 2022
Security cameras got this shot of the perp pic.twitter.com/jGTIiqFRtH
— Joseph Bevilacqua (@joebev49) March 1, 2022
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Robert Jonathan is a staff writer for BizPac Review. He is a longtime writer/editor for news aggregation websites and has also developed content in the legal and financial publishing sectors as well as for online education. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, “a law school the basketball teams can be proud of.”
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