What Joe Biden was really trying to say about “Jack The Ripper” when he got cut off

| 10:26 pm EDT March 15, 2020
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Joe Biden unquestionably won tonight’s debate. When you’re the frontrunner this late in the race, all you have to do is stand your ground in order for it to be a win, which he did. Biden took things further by committing to picking a woman as his running mate. But one moment during the debate had people rather confused.

Joe Biden began making an analogy involving Jack The Ripper before he ran out of time and got cut off. It wasn’t a gaffe; it just left people wondering what he was about to say about the infamous serial killer. The context is key. Bernie Sanders had just repeated his partial praise of Fidel Castro and the current regime in China.

Biden then began to assert that when someone is sufficiently awful overall, you have to be careful about going around pointing out their good qualities. For instance Adolf Hitler was kind to animals, but who gives a damn? Hitler doesn’t deserve credit for anything.

When Biden evoked Jack The Ripper, he was in the process of making that same analogy. You wouldn’t go around praising Jack The Ripper for some positive quality he might have had, when the overall reality was that he was a serial killer. So that ends that mystery. Palmer Report has often quipped that Trump will either pardon Jack The Ripper, or add Jack The Ripper to his cabinet, so we welcome Joe Biden to the analogy club.