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Saturday Night Live grafts Biden gaffe onto Romney
Video: Biden is the one who told a paraplegic man in a wheelchair, State Senator Chuck Graham, to “stand up” during a 2008 rally in Missouri.
Last weekend, “Saturday Night Live” did a sketch purporting to mock Mitt Romney??s supposed discomfort in addressing a racially diverse audience. The skit included Romney inviting a black audience member to high-five, then noticing that the poor fellow doesn??t have any arms.
That??s actually a Joe Biden moment, repurposed as Romney satire. Biden is the one who told a paraplegic man in a wheelchair, State Senator Chuck Graham, to ??stand up? during a 2008 rally in Missouri. The New York Times wondered if maybe choosing a ??human verbal wrecking crew? like Biden for a running mate was such a good idea. Their concern proved to be very well founded.
Working this kind of thing into a Mitt Romney satire is as weird as it would have been for “Saturday Night Live” to portray Jimmy Carter as clumsy instead of Gerald Ford during a 1976 skit. Oh, and for the record, this is what it really looks like when Mitt Romney addresses a ??racially diverse? crowd:
