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News Report Mistakenly Shows Biden’s Photo During Story About Alleged Child Molester

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A local news report in the Pittsburgh area had a hilarious blunder on a story that was anything but hilarious.

As a female anchor reported on the search for a 71-year-old man who allegedly inappropriately touched a 12-year-old girl a very familiar face was shown on the screen, The Washington Examiner reported.

The mishap happened in a flash, as the WTAE Channel 4 news team transitioned from a story about a robbery at a Giant store in Eagle Squirrel Hill.

As the camera shot shifted from b-roll at the grocery store to a desk anchor, a graphic appeared in the top-left corner advertising Biden’s State of the Union address set to take place Tuesday evening. But what the anchor reported was not about the president.

“A 71-year-old man was accused of inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl at the Walmart in West Mifflin Sunday afternoon,” she said. Toward the end of those remarks, a split-second camera angle change showed what appeared to be a troubled-looking colleague before it returned to the anchor sans the Biden graphic.

The clip was met with mockery on Twitter.

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“’A 71 year-old man has been accused of inappropriately touching a 12 year-old girl…’ This was either a huge Freudian slip or there is a backstage hand that is my hero!” one user said.

“Omg! That’s tooo funny! That they thought he was only 71,” another said.

“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,” another Twitter user said.

“I about fell out of my chair laughing at this. Someone messed up bigly,” another said.

This has already been a bad week for Biden.

A majority of adults in the United States now believe that President Joe Biden is mentally unfit to serve as commander in chief.

According to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, a strong majority of voters said Biden is unfit to serve as president while also revealing the lowest job approval rating (37 percent) from the poll since becoming president over a year ago.

“The recent poll revealed that the “underlying weakness” is to the degree that most adults “have doubts about his personal capacities.” When the respondents were asked if he was a strong leader, 59 percent said no, while 36 percent said yes. In fact, those percentages resemble his job approval; 37 percent approve and 55 percent disapprove,” Breitbart reported.

“When asked about Biden’s “mental sharpness” to serve as president, 54 percent said they do not think Biden is mentally sharp enough, while only 40 percent said he is. When respondents were asked the same question in May 2020, when Biden was only a candidate, 51 percent said he had the “mental sharpness” needed to serve as president, while 43 percent said he did not,” the report added.

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“Biden seemed to have lost independents, a critical polling group, on this topic. Fifty-nine percent of the independents gave the president’s mental sharpness a negative assessment, a rise of 13 percentage points since May 2020,” the report added.

A separate Washington Post-ABC News poll that was released over the weekend found that voters have more trust in Republicans than Democrats as Biden’s approval rating has plummeted down to 37 percent.

The poll found that 50 percent of registered voters said they’d prefer Republicans to be in control of Congress, while 40 percent prefer Democrats.

It also revealed that 49 percent said they will support a GOP candidate in November’s midterm elections, with 42 percent saying they will vote for a Democratic candidate.

A new average of polls show Biden’s approval rating beneath 40 percent for the first time since he took office in January 2021.

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