President Joe Biden tried to do a little bit of revisionist history
when it comes to his own record in regard to same sex marriage.
Now, during a recent interview with Kal Penn,
he claims that he had an epiphany when he was in high school about the importance of
ensuring there's equality for all when it comes to this issue.
During the conversation, Kal Penn asked him this, you codified support for
same-sex marriage and interracial marriages like ours.
I'm curious what your evolution was like on marriage equality and
what the federal government might be able to do to protect LGBTQ Americans.
Especially trans kids who are dealing with all these regressive state laws that
are popping up right now?
Well, Joe Biden responds with, I can remember exactly when my epiphany was.
Fascinating.
>> All right, must've been around 2013.
>> Yeah, except that's not what he says.
My dad was dropping me off and I remember I'm about to get out of the car and
I looked to my right and two well-dressed men in suits kissed each other.
So Corn Pop was not involved, okay?
Apparently two well dressed guys kissing,
I mean like gave each other a kiss and I'll never forget it.
I turned and looked at my dad and he said, Joey, it's simple, they love each other,
it's simple, no, I'm not joking, it's simple, they love each other.
And then he continues to say, it doesn't matter whether it's same-sex or
a heterosexual couple, you should be able to be married, what is the problem?
Well, Joey, lemme tell you what the problem is.
The problem is, you did not support same-sex marriage,
you didn't support it back in 2006 for instance.
When you said this.
>> The president had used his radio address yesterday and tomorrow in the Rose
garden to talk about a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
>> Think about this, the world's going to Hades in a handbasket,
we are desperately concerned about the circumstance
relating to avian flu, we don't have enough vaccines.
We don't have enough police officers and we're gonna debate the next three
weeks I'm told gay marriage, a flag amendment and God only knows what else.
I can't believe the American people can't see through this, we already have a law,
the defense of Marriage Act.
We've all voted, not where I voted and others said, look,
marriage is between a man and a woman and states must respect that,
nobody's violated that law, there's been no challenge to that law.
Why do we need a constitutional amendment?
Marriage is between a man and a woman.
>> What happened to that high school epiphany you had Biden?
>> It's really simple, Joey, it's really simple, they just love each other.
>> They just love each other.
No joke, no joke.
>> No Joke, no joke, okay?
But apparently 40 some odd years later, he's, now remember only men and
women, okay?
We don't want any of that man and man stuff.
>> This country is going to Hades.
>> In a hellbasket, no, no in a handbasket.
Okay, but look maybe in 2006 after that interview,
he realized he was wrong and he immediately changed his position,
except on the debate stage when he was debating against Sarah Palin in 2008.
He had similar ideas, let's watch.
>> Do you support gay marriage?
>> No, Barack Obama nor
I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage.
We do not support that.
>> Didn't support it in 2008 either.
And he did mention Obama, which is important because Obama also did not
support same-sex marriage until he was running for re election in 2012.
I wonder why that is, could it be look, a political headline
from May 9th 2011, gay donors fuel Obama's 2012 bid.
In fact, it was a story that Cenk covered back in the day when
the first hour wasn't as good because I wasn't included.
But this was a good story that Cenk did, so why don't we watch?
>> He was at an LGBT fundraising event and you see, this is already an amazing
part of the story and he sees a family out here in California in Los Angeles and
a couple that are gay with two kids, right?
And he comes out and says, you know what damn it to hell,
I think I'm in favor of gay marriage, isn't that amazing?
What you didn't realize that there was gay couples and they have kids and
they're in a perfectly loving relation, you didn't realize that?
I mean, you're vice president, what you 98, but he walks in and his,
wow, you guys are gay, this looks like a normal family what the hell,
that probably didn't hurt that it was a fundraising event, right?
But nonetheless they say that was the thing that precipitated him turning around
and saying that he's definitely for gay marriage.
We know that he was gonna do it before the election because there was strategy
notes on it, we covered this for a long time during the campaign.
He was not getting enough money from his traditional donors on Wall Street, so
he needed to get more money from gay donors, gay rights donors.
Honestly, that's what happened during the campaign and
eventually 20% of his bundlers were gay rights donors, okay?
>> Man, I gotta say, just looking back at the Obama administration and
just how much they cared about donors above all else is just so
incredibly depressing, right?
I don't have fond memories of the Obama era, but just going back and
remembering all these details just makes me sick to my stomach.
>> So Anna, you wonder sometimes why I get so
worked up on the show because I've gone through 21 years of gaslighting.
So, when I said Obama was changing his position on gay marriage because now 20%
of his bundlers were gay rights donors and
they had switched from the bankers to the gay rights donors.
People were outraged, it's how dare you?
I mean, just say that Obama would be moved by money and by the way,
number one donors in 2008 bankers and guess who got giant bailouts, the bankers.
But no you're not allowed to say that about Democrats,
you can say it about Republicans, you can't say it about Democrats.
Now back to Biden, in 1973, 10 years after little Joey and
his dad ran into those Bartholomew and Winthrop.
>> The very well dressed gay guys who were kissing, yes, they had to be well dressed.
>> And by the way, in the 1950s, they kissed in public and
your dad in the 1950s in Scranton, Pennsylvania was, it's okay,
Joey, they just love each other, that's all, it's that simple.
No joke, okay?
>> It definitely happened.
>> Yeah, I'm sure that happened, by the way I can't, all right, whatever.
In 1973 just a little decade, I'm now reading for media, I did a good job of
covering the story just a little over a decade after Biden's epiphany.
He said that his gut reaction was to believe that homosexuals in
the military and government post quote security risk to the country.
That gay people were a security risk just because they were gay and
could not be allowed in the government or the military.
He said that 10 years after his epiphany on how gay marriage was okay.
He's an obvious massive liar.
So, if you watch Fox News, you think Donald Trump is honest,
it's the Democrats that are liars, right?
You watch MSNBC and you think, Joe Biden is super honest,
Barack Obama's super honest, Donald Trump's the only liar,
the Republicans are the only liars, no, they're all liars.
Biden told a story about how he got arrested with Nelson Mandela during
apartheid.
If Donald Trump had told that lie, that's all you've ever heard about, right?
Biden says it, not a peep, he's a giant outrageous liar.