Doyle McManus: Biden should own his gaffes
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Aug 21, 2019
3 minutes
I once sat next to Joe Biden at an event where one of the speakers committed a classic gaffe: He unintentionally uttered an obscenity into a live microphone. The offending speaker wasn't Biden; it was me.
"What do I do now?" I asked the former vice president, figuring he was the world's leading authority on misstatements.
"Own it," he advised. "That's all you can do."
For much of the summer, the dominant narrative about Biden's presidential
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